Tag: suicide bombing
Suicide bombings in Nigeria: tactic is back after a four-year break...
Nigeria’s first suicide bombing since 2020 took place in June 2024 with four coordinated attacks that killed at least 30 people.
The attacks took place...
At least 15 killed in suicide bombing at army camp in...
At least 15 people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing as recruits lined up outside an army camp in the Somali capital...
Suicide bombing by Somalia’s al Shabaab group kills six
A suicide bomber killed six police officers in front of a district police station in the Somali capital Mogadishu late on Sunday, police said,...
Suicide bomber kills five in Chad
A suicide bomber killed five people, including a Chadian soldier, when she blew herself up on the shores of Lake Chad, military and government...
North Sinai suicide bombing
A suicide bombing killed at least two people in Egypt’s North Sinai region a day after four headless bodies were found, security and medical...
Suicide car bomb explosion in Somalia leaves casualties
A suicide car bomb exploded outside a military base for Ethiopian soldiers in southern Somalia on Saturday, leaving an unspecified number of casualties, a...
Afghans try to identify group behind attack on clerics, toll climbs...
Afghan authorities were struggling on Wednesday to identify the group behind a suicide bomb attack that killed at least 55 people attending...
Suicide bomber kills 128 in attack on Pakistani election rally
A suicide bomber killed 128 people at an election rally in southwestern Pakistan in the second election-related attack on Friday, officials said,...
Suicide bomber kills 11 people in mosque attack in northeast Nigeria
A suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicentre of the conflict...
Somali police open fire to break up protest against bombing
Somali police opened fire to prevent protesters demonstrating against last weekend's deadly bombings from accessing the site of the attack, witnesses and...
Suicide attacks on restaurants, checkpoint, kill 60 in southern Iraq
Three suicide attacks claimed by Islamic State killed at least 60 people in southern Iraq on Thursday, a health official and police...
A dozen killed, over 40 wounded in Cameroon suicide bomb attack
Two suicide bombers killed at least 12 people and wounded over 40 others in a small town in northern Cameroon near the...
Suicide bombers kill 12 in Nigeria’s Borno state
Five female suicide bombers killed 12 people and wounded 11 in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, birthplace of the Islamist militant Boko Haram...
Three suicide bombers kill four people in northeast Nigeria
Three suicide bombers killed four people and injured eight others in a village near the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a police...
Multiple suicide bombing targets Nigerian refugees, Boko Haram blamed
Seven suspected Boko Haram militants blew themselves on the outskirts of a northeast Nigerian city on Friday, a local aid agency said,...
Suicide truck bomb kills about 100 in Iraq, mostly Iranian pilgrims
A suicide truck bomb killed about 100 people, most of them Iranian Shi'ite pilgrims, at a petrol station in the city of...
Suicide bombers in ambulances kill 21 people in Iraq
Suicide bombers driving ambulances packed with explosives detonated their vehicles at a checkpoint and a car park for Shi'ite pilgrims in two...
Somali general killed in suicide car bombing
A Somali general and at least seven of his bodyguards were killed on Sunday when their vehicle was rammed by a car...
Car bomb outside Somali President’s Palace kills at least 10
At least 10 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Tuesday when a car bomb claimed by...
Suicide bomber kills 54 in Yemen attack
A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people when he drove a car bomb into a militia compound in Aden on Monday,...
In Iraq, Nigeria and now Turkey, child bombers strike
The boy looked scared and younger than 16 when Iraqi police grabbed him on the street in the northern city of Kirkuk....
Suicide bomber kills at least 50 at Pakistan hospital
A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 50 people and wounded dozens more in an attack on mourners gathered at a...
Death toll in Baghdad bombing rises to 324
The death toll from a suicide bombing in central Baghdad on July 3 has reached 324 and might climb further, Iraq's health...
ISS: Nigeria’s child terror suspects: no easy answers
While the use of suicide bombers is in itself an alarming phenomenon, Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram has added a dimension of...
Suicide bombing in Nigeria’s Maiduguri kills at least four people
A suicide bombing at a government compound in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri killed at least four people on Thursday, residents said.
A...
Islamic State suicide attacks kill 32 in southern Iraq
Two suicide car bombs claimed by Islamic State killed at least 32 people and wounded 75 others in the centre of the...
Female suicide bombers kill eight at refugee camp in northeast Nigeria
Two female suicide bombers have killed at least eight people at a camp for people displaced by the jihadist Boko Haram insurgency...
Two suicide bombers kill 22 at mosque in northeast Nigeria’s Maiduguri
Two female suicide bombers killed 22 people on Wednesday at a mosque outside the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of...
Female suicide bombers kill over 60 people in northeast Nigeria
Two female suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a camp for people displaced by an insurgency of the jihadist Boko...
At least six killed at Cameroon funeral by two suicide attackers
At least six people were killed and 30 injured in northern Cameroon on Wednesday by two Islamist suicide bombers at a Muslim...
At least 12 killed in suicide blasts in north Nigeria
At least 12 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in the northern...
Suicide bomber hits Shi’ite procession in Nigeria’s Kano state
A male suicide bomber hit a procession of Shi'ite Muslims in Nigeria's Kano state as they walked to the city of Zaria...
Suicide bombers in Nigerian city of Kano kill at least 14,...
Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at a mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Wednesday, killing...
Suicide bomber strikes in northern Cameroon
At least five people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on Sunday in the northern Cameroon town of Mora, military sources...
Suicide bombing in Saudi mosque for security forces kills 13
A suicide bomb attack inside a mosque in a local security forces headquarters in Abha city in south-west Saudi Arabia killed 13...
Female suicide bomber kills 19 at northern Nigeria market
A blast set off by a female suicide bomber tore through a crowded market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu on...
Female bomber caused blast at Nigeria bus station, 15 dead
A bomb blast in Nigeria's Potiskum was caused by a female bomber who attempted to force her way onto a bus before...
Female suicide bomber kills 10 in Nigerian bus station
A female suicide bomber blew herself up at a crowded bus station in the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu on Sunday, killing...
Four killed in Nigerian suicide bomb attack
Four people were killed by two female suicide bombers In Kano, Nigeria.
Police Commissioner Adenerele Shinaba said the attack injured seven people, including...
Suicide bomber kills five outside northeast Nigeria mosque
A suicide bomber targeting worshippers in a mosque in a remote village in northeast Nigeria killed five people and wounded dozens, a...
Suicide bombing in Nigeria’s Jos kills three
A suicide bombing on Saturday that was meant to target an open air viewing of a football match in the central Nigerian...
Suicide bomber kills 45 in Iraqi city of Hilla
A suicide bomber driving a minibus packed with explosives killed at least 45 people and wounded 157 on Sunday in the southern...
Suicide bomber kills 10 at funeral in northern Iraq
A suicide bomber in northern Iraq blew himself up at a funeral procession on Sunday, killing at least 10 people and wounding...
Militants say ex-army major carried out Cairo suicide attack
A Sinai-based Islamist militant group that claimed a September assassination attempt on Egypt's interior minister released a video on Saturday saying a...
