A suicide truck bomber targeted a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk today, killing at least 11 and wounding dozens, including children from a nearby school.
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A suicide bomber in Kabul has killed at least four civilians and wounded 12. The bomber, who was riding a motorcycle, set off the blast near the main market in the Afghan capital.
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A suicide bomber disguised as a soldier has blown himself up in front of police headquarters in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, killing himself and four policemen.
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Gunmen attacked a Sunni mosque in the town of Haswah, south of Baghdad today, setting it ablaze a day after a suicide truck bomber struck near a Shi'ite mosque in the same area.
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Police said Saturday a bomber, driving a truck loaded with bricks, detonated his explosives outside a police station in the predominantly Sunni district of Dora in southern Baghdad. Twenty people were killed in the blast, including at least 14 police officers.
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Iraq's deputy prime minister is reportedly in surgery after being wounded in a suicide bombing in Baghdad. U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver confirmed that Salam al-Zawba'i had been taken to a U.S.-run hospital, but declined to comment on his condition.
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A suicide bomber today drove a car packed with explosives into a U.S. Embassy convoy near the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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Recent high profile suicide bombings in Afghanistan include an attack on an American military base that coincided with a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. The bombings continue a trend that began in 2006 when suicide attacks in Afghanistan increased fivefold over the previous year. VOA's Peter Fedynsky reports that al-Qaida terrorists and Afghanistan's ousted Taleban rulers are claiming credit for the recent attacks.
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Israeli forces have killed two senior members of Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group responsible for recent suicide bombings in Israel. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, Israeli forces also moved large numbers of troops back into the West Bank city of Nablus, after a partial withdrawal on Tuesday.
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A suicide bomber killed 40 people outside a Baghdad business college yesterday. Reports say most of the victims were students. Dozens of others were wounded.
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Iraqi security officials say a suicide truck bombing near a college in Baghdad has killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 30 others.
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Iraqi police say at least 45 people have been killed in suicide bombings south of Baghdad Thursday. Officials say another 150 were wounded when at least two bombs exploded in a crowded market in Hilla, 100 kilometers south of the capital.
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