U.S. and Iraqi officials say a bomb has exploded inside a local council building in Baghdad's Sadr City district, killing 10 people, including four Americans. VOA's Suzanne Presto reports on the attack from the northern city of Irbil. Hassan Shammah...
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 06 June 2008 Pakistani police say they have foiled a planned bomb attack involving three alleged suicide bombers, three vehicles and hundreds of kilograms of explosives. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that de...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 13 May 2008 At least 60 people have been killed and 200 injured in bomb explosions in Rajasthan's capital, the old walled city of Jaipur, in western India. Initial reports say seven bombs detonated, which police believe were...
By Ayaz Gul Islamabad 15 March 2008 A bomb explosion at a restaurant in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, killed a foreign woman and wounded at least 11 others, including American nationals, on Saturday night. From Islamabad, Ayaz Gul reports. Witnes...
By Ayaz Gul Islamabad 25 February 2008 Authorities in Pakistan say that a suicide bomb attack on a military vehicle in the garrison city of Rawalpindi has killed at least eight people, including a senior army general. Ayaz Gul reports from Islamabad....
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 Deborah Block Baghdad 20 January 2008 A suicide bombing killed six people in Iraq's western Anbar province, but a prominent sheikh who was the target of the attack was not hurt. The U.S. military says roadside bombs linked to Iran have declined re...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 02 January 2008 At least four people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in a bombing by suspected Tamil rebels in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. The bomb attack came a day after a prominent Tamil lawmaker was s...
By Challiss McDonough Beirut 11 December 2007 Two car bombs have exploded in the Algerian capital, killing at least 62 people and injuring scores more. One of the blasts targeted several U.N. offices, and the United Nations says at least 12 staff mem...
By Deborah Block Baghdad 07 December 2007 Iraqi police say separate bomb attacks have killed at least 26 people and wounded about 30 others in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad. Authorities say at least 16 people were killed in one attack...