Funerals have taken place in Kabul for victims of Saturday's suicide bomb attack claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), which killed 80 people. Bodies were still being collected from morgues as the first burials were conducted in the west of the city. The bomber targeted a protest march by members of the Hazara minority,...
Afghanistan is observing a day of national mourning after suicide bombers killed 80 people and wounded 230 in an attack on marchers in Kabul. So-called Islamic State (IS), the Sunni Muslim militant group, has said it was behind Saturday's attack on members of the Shia Muslim Hazara minority. In a televised address,...
The driver of a lorry that killed 84 people in an attack in the French city of Nice has been confirmed as Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31. Some 202 people were injured; 52 are critical, of whom 25 are on life support. Ten of the dead were children. Prosecutor Francois Molins said Bouhlel had driven the lorry 2km (1.2...
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...
Bangladeshi officials have named five of the men who carried out the country's worst terror attack on Friday and said they were known to police. Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed when Islamist militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. Two police officers also died and 30 were injured. After a 12-hour...
At least 91 people were killed Sunday in two bombings in the Iraqi capital, including a large-scale attack claimed by the Islamic State group that killed 86 people — among them 15 children — in a central shopping district, officials said. The bombings demonstrated the extremists' ability to mount significant...
A multi-national crowd was dining when terrorists invaded the trendy restaurant in a diplomatic enclave of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The attackers took hostages and exchanged gunfire with police until soldiers moved in and killed the militants. Twenty people inside the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe were killed, along with...
HEARTBREAKING stories are emerging about the people ruthlessly murdered by three depraved suicide bombers at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport. Islamic State terrorists slaughtered 42 defenceless victims when they blew themselves up at Turkey’s busiest airport. Among the dead is Serkhan Turk, a 24-year-old physical...
The massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando left dozens dead or injured, families reeling and a nation in shock. It has also left a lasting impact on the medical professionals who treated the victims. Dr. Chadwick Smith, the trauma team leader at Orlando Regional Medical Center, was still raw with emotion when he talked...
Vigils have been held in Orlando, Florida, and around the world for the victims of Sunday's deadly gun attack on a gay nightclub. A Muslim cleric told those attending the Orlando event that Muslims stood united with them against "the ideology of hatred, death and destruction". Similar gatherings have been held in...
There is no clear evidence that the Orlando gunman was directed by the so-called Islamic State group (IS), US President Barack Obama has said. But the inquiry into the attack on the Pulse gay night club, in which 49 people were killed, is being treated as a terrorist investigation, he added. The US authorities say gunman Omar...
City, state and federal officials are working through the carnage of the deadly nightclub shooting in Orlando and have begun announcing the names of the victims. At least 50 people were killed and 53 others injured at the gay club, called Pulse Orlando, when a shooter opened fire early this morning. The city has released the...