Tag: blast

A loud blast hit the Libyan capital Tripoli early on Tuesday, residents said, with the noise audible across much of the city and dark...

A powerful blast in port warehouses near central Beirut storing highly explosive material killed 78 people, injured nearly 4 000 and sent seismic shockwaves...

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb blast in the Tunisian capital this week, the militant group’s Amaq news agency said. A wanted militant...

Nine Somali soldiers including two generals were killed by a blast just outside Mogadishu, militants and an army official said. Islamist group...

The September 4 explosion and tragic loss of life at Rheinmetall Denel Munition's (RDM) Somerset West plant is still the subject of...

Thirty-nine people were killed in a suicide bombing of a Shi'ite mosque in eastern Afghanistan, and the death toll may climb further,...

Zimbabwean police arrested two suspects over a grenade blast that killed two people and injured 47 at a campaign rally for President...

Police are searching for the motive behind an explosion at Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's election rally that injured 49 people. Vice President Constantino...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa escaped injury in an explosion at a political rally and vowed the "cowardly act" would not derail Zimbabwe's first...

Eight Kenyan police officials were killed in the eastern part of the country after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device planted...

Explosions in and around a mosque in north-east Nigeria killed at least 27 people, a hospital official said, in the latest attack...

Turkey's swift response to Somalia's deadliest truck bombing drew praise from survivors and officials who called Ankara their "only genuine" international partner,...

Medics helping victims of a huge bomb explosion in Mogadishu that killed more than 300 people say Somalia's threadbare emergency services have...

A blast hit worshippers leaving a mosque in the east Libyan city of Benghazi, apparently targeting a key tribal ally of eastern...

At least three children were killed and 20 people wounded by a blast in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Monday, witnesses...

A large blast exploded near a Libyan Islamist stronghold east of the capital Tripoli on Monday, killing at least two people, military...

Blasts at a restaurant and a shop in the border town of Garissa, suspected to be caused by grenades, killed two people...

A large explosions shook an air base outside the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday, prompting authorities to shut the city's nearby airport,...

Ethnic Somalis in Nairobi prepared for a possible backlash after explosions in the Kenyan capital following the country's military foray into Somalia. Two...

An explosion in the centre of Kenya's capital Nairobi evening killed one person and wounded eight, the Kenyan Red Cross said. "Eight casualties...