About 12 people were killed and 13 others wounded after a suicide bombing rocked near the house of a tribal elder in eastern Afghan town of Jalalabad on Sunday morning, sources said.
Thursday's terror attack in Indonesia's capital of Jakarta raised concerns over people's security in daily life, as it took place all the sudden in a public area that could kill anybody without warning, local residents said.
The deadly suicide attack in the heart of Istanbul on Tuesday that killed 11 people has exposed the vulnerability of Turkey to serious security challenges in a turbulent region where terrorism is on the rise.
The India-Pakistan foreign secretary talks, scheduled in Islamabad on January 15, seem uncertain. Even as national security adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval courted controversy by purportedly indicating that the talks may be called off, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif quickly set up an inter-agency investigation team to probe the leads India provided it regarding the perpetrators of the Pathankot attack.
A government official on Thursday said investigators looking into the attempted attack on police officers in the northern suburb of Paris earlier on Thursday did not yet have clear grounds to describe it as a terror act.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Tuesday called his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, promising "prompt and decisive action" against possible Pakistan-based perpetrators of the attack upon Pathankot airbase last weekend.
Britain's counter-terror police on Sunday searched a residential address in east London following "a violent unprovoked knife attack" at a subway station on Saturday.
At least 14 people were killed and 17 others were injured Wednesday after gunmen opened fire at a social services center in San Bernardino City of Southern California.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday faced a marathon grilling from Congressional Republicans about her role in the botched U.S. Libya policy and her initial account of what caused the 2012 Benghazi attack in the first face-off since Clinton announced her White House bid earlier this year.
The suspected organizers of an attempted terror attack in Moscow may be of Syrian origin, and law enforcement agencies are now investigating their links to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, Russian media reported Monday.
In the deadly terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 95 people on Saturday in the Turkish capital, analysts see the effect of the fallout from surge of violence and terrorism in Syria and Iraq, both neighbors to Turkey.
At least seven people were killed and 12 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself in front of a gathering of the Shiite Houthi group in Yemen's capital of Sanaa on Tuesday night, a security official told Xinhua.
Nigerian police have arrested 56 persons suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect in central part of the country.
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Monday condemned Sunday's air raids on a market place in Douma, located northeast of Damascus.
The Israeli government is stepping up its efforts to crack down on Jewish extremists who have been suspected of staging a string of violent attacks on civilian and religious sites over the past years.
The Israeli security cabinet on Sunday called for a crackdown on Jewish extremists with harsher measures following an arson attack which killed a Palestinian toddler.
A 16-year-old Israeli girl stabbed during the Jerusalem gay pride parade Thursday and admitted to the Hadassah Ein Karem hospital, succumbed to her wounds Sunday, according to a statement by the hospital.
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