Officials in northern Iraq say Turkish military aircraft have dropped bombs in the region, a week after Ankara conducted a major offensive against Kurdish PKK rebels in the area.

A suicide bomb attack on one of Pakistan's premier military academies has killed at least five people and wounded 19 others. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad the bombing marks the fifth suicide blast in the last eight days - a string of attacks that has killed nearly 100 people across the country.

Iraqi authorities say the police chief of the northern city of Mosul has been killed in a suicide bomb attack as he was touring the site of Wednesday's massive explosion that killed at least 18 people.

The U.S. military says it has carried out a third air assault on a suspected militant stronghold south of Baghdad.

A bomb planted on a road in Kabul has blown up a civilian vehicle, killing its four Afghan passengers. The bomb was remotely detonated and exploded as the vehicle passed in the south-eastern outskirts of the city, city police chief General Zalmai Uriakhail said.

At least 64 people, including 5 members of Parliament, were killed by two bomb blasts in north Afghanistan – in the deadliest attack since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, officials said.

A suicide bomber rammed a motorbike into a Pakistani air force bus, killing eight personnel, while troops killed up to 70 Islamic militants in a north-western region, officials said.

Local officials in Pakistan's northwestern Swat district say a roadside blast targeting a military transport has killed at least 30 people. Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that the attack took place days after more than 2,000 troops arrived in the region to deal with rising violence.

Pakistani police have released a photograph of a suspected suicide bomber involved in the killing of at least 139 people during the homecoming procession of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday.

Police investigating the Karachi bomb attacks targeting Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, have confirmed they were carried out by at least one suicide bomber using plastic explosives.

Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto has strongly condemned bomb attacks on her homecoming parade in Karachi, saying that her followers had made the "ultimate sacrifice" for democracy.

Bombs targeting Iraqi troops in Baghdad and police in the north of the country have killed at least 10 people.