Tag: Terrorism
Israeli warplanes hit Gaza after rocket attack
Israeli warplanes have fired missiles at several targets in the Gaza Strip, wounding eight people, after a rocket fired from the strip hit a southern Israeli city.[MORE]
Charges laid over fatal World Cup bombings
A Ugandan court has charged three Kenyans with 76 counts of murder, the first such cases opened against suspects in the July 11 suicide attacks in Kampala.[MORE]
Palestinian rocket hits Israeli city
A rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip has struck the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon, causing damage but no injuries.[MORE]
Most Pakistanis see US as an enemy
A new poll shows a majority of Pakistanis view the United States as an enemy, oppose the US-led war in Afghanistan and are less concerned about the Taliban and Al Qaeda than a year ago.[MORE]
Missing US serviceman found dead
The second of two US servicemen who went missing in Afghanistan last week has been found dead.[MORE]
Baghdad hit by gun and bomb attacks
Sixteen people, including nine security force members, were killed and 14 wounded on Thursday in a string of attacks in the Iraqi capital's Sunni district of Al-Adhamiyah, the interior ministry said.[MORE]
Karzai urges action against Pakistan Taliban
Afghan president Hamid Karzai has accused the US and its allies of failing to take action against the Taliban beyond its borders.[MORE]
Cameron accuses Pakistan of exporting terror
The British prime minister has caused a stir in Pakistan by claiming that Islamabad has been "exporting terror".[MORE]
Nine hurt in Ukraine church bombing
A homemade bomb has exploded in a church in Ukraine, wounding nine people on the last day of a controversial visit to the country by Russia's Orthodox Patriarch Kirill I.[MORE]
Key witnesses dodge Lockerbie hearing
Delays in a hearing on whether or not BP influenced the release of the Lockerbie bomber has strained relations between the US, UK and BP.[MORE]
Roadside bomb kills 20 Afghan civilians
At least 20 civilians have been killed and another 27 injured when a crowded bus hit a Taliban-style roadside bomb in south-western Afghanistan.[MORE]
US army searching for Afghan WikiLeaks source
The US army has begun a criminal investigation into the leaking of tens of thousands of classified military documents from the Afghanistan war.[MORE]
Defence taskforce to examine leaked war files
Australia's Defence Department sets up a special taskforce to scrutinise thousands of leaked documents about the war in Afghanistan.[MORE]
Afghan Wikileaks 'could put lives at risk'
The US says the release of tens of thousands of secret documents about the Afghanistan war breaches federal law and potentially threatens national security. [MORE]
Car bombs kill Shiite pilgrims
Two car bombs and a separate suicide attack in Iraq on Monday killed at least 24 people and wounded dozens more.[MORE]
Pakistan dismisses Wikileaks claims
The Pakistani government has denied claims that its intelligence agencies have been coordinating and protecting the Afghan Taliban.[MORE]
Suicide bomber kills 7 at minister's house
A suicide bomber has killed seven Pakistanis in an assault targeting senior officials mourning the assassination of a cabinet minister's son by suspected Taliban.[MORE]
Sarkozy confirms Al Qaeda hostage dead
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed that a 78-year-old French hostage held by Al Qaeda's North African wing has been killed and urged French citizens to avoid travel to the Sahel region.[MORE]
Suicide bomber kills 4 outside TV station
Security officials say a suicide bomber has killed at least four people in an attack that appears to target the office of Dubai-based Al Arabiya television in Baghdad.[MORE]
Wikileaks publishes Afghan war secrets
The White House attacks whistleblowing site Wikileaks after it published 200,000 pages of secret American military files about the war in Afghanistan. [MORE]
Russia police kill power plant attackers
Russian police killed two men accused of bombing a North Caucasus hydroelectric plant, media reported, just days after president Dmitry Medvedev threatened to sack security officials if there was another attack.[MORE]
US backed Lockerbie bomber's release: leak
Britain's Sunday Times has published leaked documents which show that the Obama administration was prepared to accept the conditional release of the Lockerbie bomber.[MORE]
One dead in Bangkok bomb blast
A bomb blast at a bus stop near the site of recent anti government protests in Bangkok has killed one person and wounded nine others.[MORE]
Iran blames West for suicide attacks
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has blamed the United States, Britain and Israel for a twin suicide bombing at a mosque in the south-east of the country.[MORE]
Two killed in hydro plant terrorist attack
Russia says Muslim militants are behind a deadly attack on a hydro electric power plant in the volatile North Caucasus region.[MORE]
