A suicide bomber kills at least 10 people, a number of them children, at a checkpoint in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, officials say.

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Deadly blast at Afghan checkpoint

The CIA and overseas intelligence partners disrupted an al-Qaeda plot to blow up civilian aircraft using an advanced explosive device designed by the terrorist network’s affiliate in Yemen, U.S. officials said Monday. Read full article > >

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Al-Qaeda airline bomb plot disrupted, U.S. says

BERLIN — For decades, Germany shied away from celebrating its military, ashamed of the jingoism that helped spark two world wars. But as thousands of the country’s troops return home from Afghanistan, many here are saying that old ghosts are causing new neglect. Read full article > >

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Germany struggles with homecoming of Afghanistan veterans

Syrian state TV says a suicide bomber has struck in the capital Damascus, killing at least 10 people and wounding 20 others.

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Deadly blast hits Syrian capital

A suicide bomber blew himself up across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding nearly 30, state TV said. Thousands of Syrians protested elsewhere to denounce persistent violence by President Bashar Assad’s regime.

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Gen. John Allen, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, “strongly condemned” photos that will appear in the Los Angeles Times at 8 a.m. ET Wednesday and depict U.S. troops posing with the bodies of suicide bombers.

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U.S. troops pose with bombers’ bodies

A British would-be suicide bomber jailed for plotting to blow up an aircraft has his sentence cut after assisting prosecutors in the US.

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VIDEO: Would-be bomber has sentence cut

It’s good to be czar. I certainly felt like one when my chauffeur-driven Nissan sped through the gate at Russia’s massive Catherine Palace outside St. Petersburg, zooming past hordes of tourists trudging from their buses a mile away. Ours was the only car in sight as we zipped up the vast, empty courtyard, pulling to a stop just a few steps from a side entrance, where a VIP greeter came out to meet us. Read full article > >

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A Taliban suicide bomber kills at least nine people at Afghanistan’s Jalalabad airport, in revenge for the burning of Muslim holy books at a US base.

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Deadly bombing at Afghan airport

BEIRUT — Two suicide bombers struck compounds housing security services in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday, reportedly killing 28 people and wounding 238 in the worst violence to hit the country’s relatively calm commercial capital since the uprising began last March. Read full article > >

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Bombers strike Syrian city of Aleppo as offensive continues in Homs

A group of men decided against becoming suicide bombers because they wanted a “long-term future” as terrorists, a court is told.

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Suicide bombs ruled out by group

A group of men decided against becoming suicide bombers because they wanted a “long-term future” as terrorists, a court is told.

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Suicide bombs ruled out by group

BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives near a funeral procession here Friday morning, killing at least 31 people and injuring at least 60, a security official said. Mourners had gathered outside a hospital to receive the bodies of three people killed the night before, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The blast occurred in the Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, in the city’s southeast. Read full article > >

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Bomb kills dozens in Baghdad Shiite district

A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives attacked a funeral procession in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 22.

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Suicide Bomber Attacks Funeral Procession in Iraq

By a suicide bomber dressed as a policeman.

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53 Shia Pilgrims Killed in Iraq