By Deborah Block Baghdad 24 January 2008 In Iraq, a top police chief was killed in the northern city of Mosul Thursday after a suicide bomber struck officials touring the site of a previous blast. Two other police officers were killed and one U.S. an...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Islamabad 10 January 2008 At least 24 people were killed and more than 60 were injured when a suicide bomber struck outside a courthouse in the Pakistani city, Lahore. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins reports from Islamabad. Lahore...
By Purnell Murdock Washington 21 December 2007 Pakistani officials say at least 50 people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque in the country's restive northwest, during prayers for the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival. Officials say a former...
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 24 November 2007 Two suicide bombers in Pakistan have killed at least 20 people and wounded many more in separate blasts on military targets in Rawalpindi, outside the capital, Islamabad. In Islamabad, VOA's Barry Newhous...
By Deborah Block Irbil, Iraq 15 November 2007 A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police patrol Thursday in northern Iraq, killing six people and wounding more than 20 others. Despite the violence in Iraq, a U.S. military official says the number...
By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 02 October 2007 A suicide bomber has killed at least11 people in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, after targeting a police bus. Rising violence in Afghanistan, now at the highest level since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, has...
By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 29 September 2007 A suicide bomber has attacked an Afghan army bus in Kabul, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 20. As Daniel Schearf reports for VOA from Islamabad, attacks in the Afghan capital are on the...
By Melinda Smith Washington 20 September 2007 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released alarming statistics that show the suicide rate for American children and teenagers was up between 2003 to 2004. That is the most recen...
By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 09 September 2007 A United Nations report says the number of suicide bombings in Afghanistan is rising fast and would this year likely reach a record high. As Daniel Schearf reports for VOA from Islamabad, the report says...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 04 September 2007 Twin suicide bomb blasts have rocked the garrison town outside Pakistan's capital city. Officials say at least 25 people have been killed and more than 60 others injured in the blasts that appeared to targ...