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Taliban militants launched a grenade and gun attack on Kabul airport early Monday, taking over two nearby buildings which security forces attempted to storm as blasts and shooting rocked the Afghan capital.

• 10 июня 2013, 13:05

Attacks in Iraq, the deadliest of which struck Baghdad, killed 32 people on Thursday, pushing the death toll for this month above 600 and sparking fears of all-out sectarian conflict.

• 31 мая 2013, 18:25

A judge set bail at $2 million Tuesday for a US teenager accused of planning a Columbine-style attack on his school using explosives and guns.

• 29 мая 2013, 11:33

Attacks in the Baghdad area and northern Iraq killed 58 people on Monday, the latest in a wave of violence that has raised fears of a return to sectarian conflict in the country.

• 28 мая 2013, 15:45

Twin car bombs killed four people and wounded close to 50 Monday in Russia's restive Dagestan region while the Kremlin also announced it had foiled a major attack on Moscow.

• 21 мая 2013, 16:19

A "war on mosques" -- deadly attacks by militants on Sunni mosques and Shiite places of worship called husseiniyahs -- using weapons ranging from bombs to mortar rounds is raging in Iraq.

• 20 мая 2013, 17:28

The White House released 100 pages of emails Wednesday designed to defuse Republican claims of a cover-up over the attack on the US mission in Benghazi last year that killed four Americans.

• 16 мая 2013, 15:37

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton was never questioned by investigators looking into the attack on the US mission in Libya that claimed the life of the US ambassador.

• 13 мая 2013, 18:58

Turkey said Sunday it had arrested nine people over bombings that killed 46 in a town near the Syrian border and warned Damascus a red line had been crossed.

• 13 мая 2013, 17:36

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Damascus of trying to drag his country into the Syrian "quagmire" after twin bomb attacks killed 46 people in a town on the border.

• 13 мая 2013, 12:20

Nineteen people were hurt in a shooting at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans Sunday.

• 13 мая 2013, 10:42

Nigerian gunmen on Tuesday launched coordinated attacks on military barracks, a prison and police stations in the northeastern town of Bama, killing 55 people and springing 105 inmates.

• 09 мая 2013, 18:40

Israeli raids early Sunday hit three military sites outside Damascus, the second such reported attack in 48 hours, prompting Syria's government to warn that the regional situation was now "more dangerous."

• 06 мая 2013, 18:22

US authorities on Wednesday released pictures of three men it said were present during the September 11, 2012 attack on the US mission in eastern Libya, saying it wanted to question them.

• 02 мая 2013, 17:23

The brothers accused of staging the Boston Marathon bombings planned to detonate more explosives in Times Square as they were being hunted by police.

• 26 апреля 2013, 11:37

Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have killed seven civilians with a roadside bomb and cut the throats of four Afghan soldiers kidnapped while travelling home on leave.

• 18 апреля 2013, 12:51

The Pakistani Taliban, which claimed the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, denied anything to do with explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 100 in Boston.

• 16 апреля 2013, 18:37

A group of men with AK-47s lay in wait for an ex-kingpin in the Nigerian swamps before instead opening fire on police -- the latest sign of trouble in a vitally important oil region.

• 15 апреля 2013, 18:18

Pakistan's political parties organised huge rallies on Sunday but campaigning for historic general elections in May was marred by a bomb attack which killed two people in the country's northwest.

• 02 апреля 2013, 10:45

Gunmen on a motorbike wounded a Red Cross worker from Kazakhstan when they shot at her vehicle in Yemen's capital.

• 27 марта 2013, 21:36