At least nine people were killed on Wednesday in twin car bombing attacks on security personnel in Rafah city in Egypt's North Sinai, while the army poured more troops to quell the violence in the restive peninsula.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the UN mission in the country on Monday strongly condemned two bomb attacks in eastern provinces which claimed the lives of 20 people, including 12 children.
A suicide car bomber along with other suicide bombers carried out coordinated attacks at a provincial police headquarters in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Sunday, a provincial police source said.
At least five more people were gunned down in separate incidents of violence in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 38 in such attacks during the week from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22, local media and police said.
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