Eight Iraqi civilians were killed and four others were wounded in a suicide truck bomb explosion north of Baghdad that was followed by a clash between police and dozens of gunmen, an official said Sunday.
A suicide bomber on a motorbike detonated his explosives in a crowded marketplace near Afghan police Saturday, killing nine people and injuring at least 29, officials said.
A bomb in a parked car went off near a police patrol in Baghdad's downtown shopping district Friday, killing four people including two policemen, the police said.
A look at some of the deadliest violence involving Pakistani security forces and Islamic militants since Pakistan sent its forces into tribal regions near Afghanistan in late 2001 in support of the U.S.-led war on terrorism:
Shelling resumed early Wednesday in an area of northwest Pakistan where battles between troops and militants have killed up to 250 people and sent thousands more fleeing, witnesses said.
A roadside bomb exploded next to an Australian armored vehicle in south-central Afghanistan on Monday, the first combat death suffered by Australia's military contingent, the country's government said. A second soldier suffered serious wounds.
Sixteen militants fighting under a wanted Uzbek warlord with a $200,000 bounty on his head were killed in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, an official said Monday.
Twenty militants and two soldiers died in a battle in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, an army spokesman said.
A bombing and a gunbattle killed four police officers and four militants in violence-ridden Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
Dozens of hooded youths battered two police vehicles with metal bars, set fire to more than a dozen parked cars and torched a community center in northeast France, officials said Friday.
U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with insurgents during a raid in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, and civilians as well as militants were killed. In the country's volatile south, separate explosions apparently targeting NATO forces killed two children and a British soldier.
Militants holding some 230 Pakistani troops killed three of the captive soldiers before dawn Thursday in apparent retaliation for army raids on guerrilla hide-outs near the Afghan border, officials said.
The president escapes an apparent assassination attempt but nearly two dozen others are killed. A suicide bombing by an al-Qaida affiliate leaves at least 28 coast guard officers dead. A car bombing targets European workers and their Algerian police escorts.
Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops using airstrikes killed more than 20 suspected militants in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the coalition said, days after President Hamid Karzai renewed his offer to hold peace talks with the Taliban.
Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.
Hamas and Fatah loyalists clashed Saturday at a mosque in the southern Gaza Strip, leaving nine people wounded in the latest flare-up of Palestinian infighting, witnesses and medical officials said.
Some of the deadliest insurgent attacks in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led offensive began on Oct. 7, 2001:
Five security officials and three suspected Islamic militants were killed in clashes this week in Algeria, police and media reports said Thursday.
A daylong battle in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing belt Tuesday killed more than 60 Taliban fighters and one soldier from the U.S.-led coalition, military officials said.
Armed men ambushed an aid convoy in Darfur, wounding three humanitarian workers, the U.N. mission to Sudan said Saturday.
Dozens of gunmen raided a checkpoint near a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaida militants in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday and abducted seven soldiers, a local official said.
Fifteen Pakistani soldiers were killed in a militant attack on a military post near the Afghan border, an army spokesman said Tuesday.
Afghan police killed three Taliban commanders allegedly involved in the abduction of 23 South Koreans two months ago, the Interior Ministry said.
Pakistan vowed to step up its fight against terrorism Friday after a suicide attacker penetrated a high-security military base and detonated an explosive-laden vehicle, killing 16 soldiers from an elite counterterrorism task force.
The city's embattled police chief, acknowledging that police alone cannot quell a run of deadly violence, has called on 10,000 men to patrol the streets to reduce crime.