Turkey: 13 held over Istanbul Ataturk Airport attack
Turkish police have rounded up 13 suspects over triple suicide bombings at Istanbul’s international airport that killed 42 people, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Police carried out simultaneous raids at 16 different addresses in Istanbul on Tuesday night, Anadolu reported, adding that three of the suspects were foreigners. The raids against suspected Islamic State […]
Double suicide attacks kill at least 28 in Cameroon
YAOUNDE – Double suicide bomb attacks killed at least 28 people and left several others injured in Cameroon’s Far North Region on Wednesday night, military sources told Xinhua. The attacks took place in Djamkana, a densely populated town in the country’s Far North Region bordering Nigeria, the sources said. Not much information is available for […]
9 killed in suicide bombing at Iraq Sunni mosque
A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a Sunni mosque near Baghdad where worshippers were gathered for prayers, killing at least nine people, officials said on Tuesday.The attack on the mosque in Abu Ghraib, which also wounded at least 28 people, took place during evening prayers on Monday as Muslims mark the holy fasting month of […]
Two Suicide Bombers Blow Self Up in Failed Maiduguri Mosque Attack
Two suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers blew themselves up near Sulemanti Mosque in Maiduguri metropolis, Borno State, in the early hours of yesterday. The suspects, according to Borno State Police Command, strapped with Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, targeted a mosque in Sulemanti. However, the bombs went off, killing the two suspects during midnight Ramadan prayers. […]
Suicide bomber kills five worshippers at mosque in Cameroon
Yaounde (dpa) – At least five Muslim worshippers were killed Monday morning when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in northern Cameroon. The attacker had joined an early prayer session at the mosque in the locality of Guetchewe in Cameroon’s Far North Region, regional governor Midjiyawa Bakary told dpa by phone. “He later detonated his […]