Six police officers were killed and three injured when a bomb placed in a rubbish bin exploded at a security checkpoint in Giza, Cairo, officials said. Four civilians were also injured in the explosion on 9 December, which occurred near a government building. The bomb exploded in Al Haram street, which leads from the city...
POLICE have arrested a man after bomb squads uncovered a "suspicious package" in a flat in Edinburgh. Locals were evacuated from their homes in the Niddrie district of the city after the package was found. A police spokesman said the device was not lethal nor did it pose a threat to the public. He said: "Police...
Police in Brussels have surrounded a man who was behaving suspiciously and wearing "a long coat with protruding wires", Belgian media report. A large police operation is underway near Place de la Monnaie in the centre of the Belgian capital. The bomb squad is present. Shops nearby have been evacuated and several...
The number of people killed in Sunday's suicide bomb attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has risen to 165, interior ministry officials say. The government has declared three days of mourning after the huge blast, which injured 225 others. A lorry packed with explosives was detonated in the Karrada district while families...
The Iraqi government has declared three days of national mourning after a huge bomb in the capital Baghdad killed at least 125 people and wounded about 150. A lorry packed with explosives was detonated in the Karrada district while families were shopping for the holiday marking the end of Ramadan. Rescuers said whole families...
At least 11 people were killed and 36 injured when a car bomb targeted a police bus in the historic center of Istanbul, Vasip Sahin, the Istanbul governor told reporters. The death toll included seven police officers and four civilians. "Today at around 8:40, in our neighborhood of Vezneciler, an attack by a car bomb on a...
POLICE evacuated a busy London street and Tube station amid a bus bomb scare. Police officers scrambled to Holloway Road in Islington after a suspicious package was found on a bus. Highbury and Islington Station was also closed off, Transport for London confirmed. The scene at Highbury & Islington amid reports...
THE British Army should be deployed to the Northern Ireland border immediately or the UK will face an influx of migrants, traffickers and drug dealers, a senior UKIP politician has urged. David McNarry, the chair of UKIP Northern Ireland, said armed patrols of the 500 kilometre long border were essential in preserving...
EXCLUSIVE: Islamic State (ISIS) technicians are working flat out to develop a Google-style driverless car that could navigate itself into a crowded area before detonating an explosive device, a Nato security expert has warned. ISIS' research and development department in the terror group's de facto Syrian capital,...
A suicide bomber driving a car killed at least 19 people and wounded 48 others on Saturday in an attack claimed by Islamic State on a group of Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims in a southeastern suburb of Baghdad, Iraqi police sources said. A second explosion near a Shi’ite militia checkpoint in the capital’s Dora...
Efforts to squeeze the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria have put the self-declared caliphate on shaky ground, leaving the terror group in perhaps its most vulnerable state since the start of the U.S.-led bombing campaign, according to U.S. officials. For months, U.S. military officials have been touting IS's territorial...
The former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, says one of the biggest problems facing Afghanistan continues to be its poor relationship with its neighbor, Pakistan. Khalilzad told VOA in an interview Friday that "the two countries need each other and they should cooperate." He said the United States did...