
Syrian PM Wael al-Halqi has survived a car bomb attack targeting his convoy in western Mazzeh district of Damascus, state television said. There are also reported to be a number of casualties. UK-based activist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Wael Halqi’s bodyguard had been killed, AFP news agency reported. The blast is [...]

At least 30 people have been killed after gunmen and a suicide bomber attacked a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police say. A city official told AFP news agency that militants had tried to seize the compound but were unsuccessful. No group has said it carried out the attack. Kirkuk is [...]

At least 37 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in Maymana, northern Afghanistan, officials say. More than 40 people were wounded in the attack at the front of the mosque in Maymana, capital of Faryab province. The provincial governor and police chief were said to be among those attending [...]

At least 15 people have been killed and up to 30 wounded in a car bomb attack on a market in the town of Darra Adam Khel, north-west Pakistan, local security officials say. Some reports said a suicide attacker detonated the bomb in the town of Darra Adam Khel near the Khyber tribal area. It [...]

Suspected Al-Qaeda militants have attacked the intelligence headquarters of Yemen’s southern city of Aden killing 14 people, officials say. The militants attacked the building from two sides, firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons inside. The “well-planned” attack took place in Aden’s coastal Tawahi neighborhood. Al-Qaeda remains active in the area, after a security vacuum was [...]

A policeman has been killed and 17 people have been injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack outside a police station in the central Turkish province of Kayseri. The two attackers, who also died, tried to ram a car into the building in the town of Pinarbasi, Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said. A bomb in the [...]