Five children were killed and six others seriously injured in a crude bomb explosion that ripped through a congested slum in the city on Wednesday.

Union Home Ministry sources have ruled out a terro

A video posted online in the name of a shadowy militant group is claiming responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the Syrian capital this week that killed 55 people.

In the video posted late on F

A suicide attack targeting police on Friday killed at least eight people including four policemen in Pakistan's northwestern tribal district along the Afghan border, officials said.

The targets of th

Four persons were on Monday killed and 15 injured in a blast in a chemical reactor of a leading pharmaceutical company's unit at Basauli village near here.

"The blast took place in the reactor of the

An explosion on Sunday rocked an area near a theatre at a university in the Nigerian city of Kano used by Christian students for services, a security source and residents said.

"There was a huge expl

Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks on Sunday, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over a hotel and tried to enter

The United States embassy in Kabul was in lockdown on Sunday as explosions and gunfire rocked the capital, a spokesman said.

All staff were accounted for and safe, with no reports of injuries, spokes

At least one attacker was killed on Sunday as fighting raged in several locations in the Afghan capital, Kabul police chief, Mohammad Ayoubi Salangi told.

"Near the parliament, the first floor of a n

Germany's embassy in Kabul was damaged on Sunday but no one is believed to be injured, the foreign ministry said after explosions and gunfire rocked the diplomatic quarter of the Afghan capital.

A sp

All Indians are safe in Afghanistan after heavily-armed Taliban suicide bombers unleashed a wave of coordinated attacks in Kabul and three other cities and the situation is being closely watched by th