A rocket fired by Taliban militants slammed into a residential area in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, a former Taliban stronghold, on Tuesday killing three civilians and injuring two others, said Farid Ahmad Obaid, the police spokesman in the province.
Airstrikes have claimed the lives of 25 militants in eastern Afghanistan's Khost and Paktika provinces over the past two days, local media reported on Sunday.
At least 824 people were killed and 2,339 others injured in 372 bomb attacks, including 26 suicide bombings, that occurred across Pakistan during 2014, according to official statistics.
More than 40 suspected militants of Nigeria-based Islamic sect Boko Haram were killed in a series of confrontations with the Cameroonian army in the Far North Region of Cameroon, Cameroonian Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary announced Sunday night.
The Syrian troops killed over 60 of the Islamic State (IS) militants in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Tuesday, the state news agency SANA said.
Two suicide bombings that rocked Afghan capital city Kabul since Thursday morning have claimed nine lives including two attackers and injured 31 others, officials said.
The Syrian troops on Thursday advanced in a contested town in the southern province of Daraa and killed a local commander of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in that town, according to the state news agency SANA.
The Islamic State (IS) militants on Sunday downed a Syrian war jet over the country's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, the first war jet the terror group has managed to shoot down since it had captured large swathes of land in that oil-rich province, a monitoring group reported.
Violence has escalated in Ukraine over the past day with five people, including children, reportedly having been killed and 17 others wounded, reports showed Wednesday.
Two policemen were killed and 15 people injured on Wednesday night during a bomb explosion in a railway station in Egypt's Nile Delta province Minufiya, state-run Ahram Arabic website reported.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of French oil giant Total was killed here in a plane accident.
A total of 59 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Wednesday in clashes with Iraqi security forces and air strikes against their positions across the country, security sources said.
A total of 50 people were killed on Tuesday in clashes and air strikes against the positions of the Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, security source said.
At least six people were killed Sunday when severe cyclone "Hudhud" hit the east coast of India with winds of almost 200 kmph, said officials.
The Egyptian army on Thursday killed a leader of Sinai-based, al-Qaida-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis militant group after fierce confrontations at his hideouts in North Sinai's Rafah city, a security source told Xinhua.
The Syrian forces killed up to 32 rebels on Wednesday in the countryside of capital Damascus, local media reported.
A total of 14 people were killed and more than seven others wounded on Monday in clashes between Sunni tribesmen and Islamic State militants in a town in the predominantly Sunni province of Salahudin, a local security source said.
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