A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint in front of the Interior Ministry on Monday morning, after a political crisis and a wave of deadly bombings just days ago.

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Baghdad Hit by Suicide Bombing

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber blew up his car Monday outside the main gate of Iraq’s Ministry of Interior, which operates the country’s domestic security forces, killing at least five people and injuring at least 39, according to government officials. One of those killed was a police officer and 14 of the injured were police officers. Read full article > >

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Suicide bomber kills at least 5 in Baghdad

A suicide bomber targeted a funeral procession Sunday in the northeastern Afghan city of Taloqan, killing about 20 people, police said.

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Attack kills about 20 Afghan mourners

A suicide bomber attacked a Shi’ite Muslim shrine in central Kabul on Tuesday where a crowd of hundreds had gathered for the festival of Ashura, killing up to 20 people in what appeared to be an unprecedented sectarian attack.

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Suicide Attack on Afghan Shi’ite Shrine Kills Up to 20

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber slammed a car packed with explosives into the gate of a prison north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 11 people, Iraqi officials said. The attack in the town of Taji, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of the capital, is the third major attack in about a week in Iraq, and raises questions about the ability of the nation’s security forces to protect the country after U.S. troops leave in just over a month. Read full article > >

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Suicide car bomber kills 11 people outside a prison north of Baghdad

A suicide bomber attacks a convoy of foreign troops in the Afghan capital Kabul killing at least three civilians, police say.

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As many as 10 people were killed on Saturday when a suicide bomber in a car attacked a NATO bus outside the American University, according to eyewitnesses and Afghan officials.

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Deadly Attack Strikes NATO Bus in Kabul

Suicide bomber shot dead.

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Afghan Minister Survives Assassination

KABUL – The governor for Afghanistan’s Paktia province escaped unhurt from a Taliban commando-style attack Sunday, his spokesman said, the latest strike of its kind in recent days by the insurgent guerrillas. Juma Khan Hamdard was in a convoy of vehicles when three suicide bombers began firing at it outside his headquarters in the town of Gardez, the provincial capital of Paktia, near the border with Pakistan, Rohullah Samoon said. Read full article > >

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Afghan governor survives Taliban attack

BAGHDAD — Five explosions targeting local police shook the capital within the span of one hour Wednesday morning, two days after Iraq’s leaders requested that at least 5,000 U.S. military trainers remain into 2012 to advise the country’s fledgling security forces. The bombs killed at least 22 people and injured more than 70, many of them police officers, in attacks across the city. It was the bloodiest day in Baghdad since Aug. 28, when a suicide bomber killed 28 and injured 30 at the city’s largest Sunni mosque. Read full article > >

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Bombings target Iraqi police

BAGHDAD — A slew of bombings targeted Iraqi police in Baghdad on Wednesday morning, including blasts by two suicide bombers who tried to ram their vehicles through police station gates. Iraqi officials said 25 people died and dozens more were wounded in the carnage. The blasts were aimed at the police, generally considered to be the weakest section of the country’s security forces, and emphasized that despite Iraq’s security gains, long-term stability in the country is still elusive. Read full article > >

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Onslaught of attacks targeting Iraqi police in Baghdad kills 25 people

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Muhammad Irfan Malik is a banker, and he relies on numbers to tell the story of his daughter’s death. She was 17 years and 2 months old, a college student who had scored 800 out of 850 on high school graduation exams. On Oct. 20, 2009, she was with classmates in her university cafeteria when a suicide bomber detonated explosives that launched 46 ball bearings into her body. She died 43 days later, leaving her family to suffer incalculable grief. Read full article > >

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Shaken by increase in attacks since 2001, many Pakistanis fault U.S.

KABUL — Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was appointed last year to head a commission trying to broker a peace deal with the Taliban, was killed inside his Kabul home Tuesday afternoon in a suicide bombing, Afghan officials said. The man who killed Rabbani was brought to his house under the pretext of peace talks, Gen. Abdul Zahir, the director of investigations for Kabul police said in a phone interview. The suicide bomber had hid explosives in his turban, Zahir said. Read full article > >

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NATO acknowledged that an American soldier killed an Afghan journalist working for the news organization after mistaking him for a suicide bomber during an attack in July.

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U.S. Soldier Killed Afghan BBC Reporter in July, NATO Says

QUETTA, Pakistan — A suicide bomber attacked Pakistani troops near a government building in the southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people, including several soldiers, officials said. Quetta is known to harbor al-Qaida and Taliban militants and targets within the city have been frequently attacked over the last four years. Police officer Hamid Shakil said the bomber in Wednesday’s attack targeted a group of soldiers standing outside a government building in the city. Read full article > >

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Government official: Suicide bomber kills 14 people in southwestern Pakistani city