At least 54 people have been killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up during Eid prayers at a mosque in northwest Pakistan, apparently targeting former minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who escaped unhurt.

A suspected suicide bomber has killed two people in Pakistan outside the home of a government minister, police said.

Afghans have begun three days of national mourning for 41 people, made up mostly of children as well as six MPs, killed in the country's worst suicide attack.

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.

A suicide bomber riding a bicycle blew himself up at a police headquarters in Iraq's restive city of Baquba, killing at least 25 people, mostly policemen, officials say.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was the target of a bombing which killed at least a hundred people Thursday night, hours after landing at Karachi Airport.

Witnesses say a suicide bomber has attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the Afghan capital, but police had no immediate reports of any casualties.

A Palestinian suicide bomber is the unlikely star of a new Israeli film - billed by its director as an effort to destroy prejudices that fuel conflict in the Middle East.

A day after the deadliest suicide attack that struck simultaneously at communities of a small Kurdish sect in northwestern Iraq rescuers have found among the debris at least 250 bodies and possibly as many as 500 members of an ancient religious sect.

Afghan officials say a suicide car bomber blew himself up near a convoy of foreign troops on the outskirts of Kabul, Tuesday, wounding at least three civilians and three foreign troops.

Pakistani security forces are on high alert today after 40 people were killed in the country's northwest in a wave of militant violence. Fourteen people, 11 of them paramilitary soldiers, were killed on July 15 in a coordinated ambush that involved two suicide attackers and a roadside bomb explosion in the Northwest Frontier Province.

An Iraqi delegation headed to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to hold negotiations over fighting the al-Qaida terror network, a senior Iraqi official said.