Bomber Kills 18 Outside Offices of Afghan Governor
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Sept. 26 -- A Taliban suicide bomber killed 18 people outside a provincial governor's compound Tuesday, including several Muslim pilgrims set to travel to Mecca. It was the latest in a series of attacks directed at senior figures in President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed...
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Eighteen people are killed in a bomb attack near a bus in the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, reports say.
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The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province is killed in a bomb attack on a mosque.
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A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a security post near a crowded mosque in the southern Afghan town of Lashkar Gah, killing 18 people, most of them civilians, police said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sep. 10 -- A suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body assassinated the popular governor of eastern Paktia province Sunday, just two days after a powerful car bomb killed 16 people, including two U.S. soldiers, in downtown Kabul, the capital.
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A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a governor's house in southern Afghanistan, killing eight people, in the latest bloodshed linked to a spiralling Taliban insurgency.
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At least 12 people die in an explosion outside a government office in southern Afghanistan, police say.
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Muhammad Hakim Taniwal of Paktia Province was the first governor to be killed since the Taliban began a campaign of suicide bombings last year.
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The governor of Paktia Province is the highest-ranking official to be killed since the Taliban began a campaign of suicide bombings last year.
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A suicide bomber killed at least 18 people when he rammed a truck into a government building in northern Iraq on Thursday, partially knocking it down and demolishing nearby homes, police said.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded mosque in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Thursday, killing its deputy governor and five other people, officials said.
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A suspected suicide bombing in southern Afghanistan leaves at least eight people dead, officials say.
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Governor of south-eastern province escapes unhurt but several people are injured in suicide blast.
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Two men were killed when a bomb exploded as they were planting it outside a regional electoral campaign office of Afghanistan's US-backed President Hamid Karzai, an official said.
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A suicide bomber assassinated an Afghan   provincial governor on Sunday, as NATO said it killed almost   100 more Taliban fighters in its biggest offensive against the   resurgent Islamist group.
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A suicide bomber Saturday killed 18 troops after this week&#39;s deadly raid on a hardline mosque, as Pakistan&#39;s embattled military leader also faced pressure from pro-democracy protesters.
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A suicide truck bomber blew up near a Baghdad college on Tuesday, killing 18 people and wounding 40, police said.