Suicide bombing at a mosque in Kabul kills at least 27 and leaves 35 injured

At least 27 people have been killed and 35 others injured in a suicide bombing at Baqir ul Olum mosque in Kabul. The attacker entered the premises and detonated a suicide vest in a crowd of worshippers who had gathered at the mosque to mark the Shiite ceremony of Arbaeen.
This festival comes 40 days after the major festival of Ashura.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 21 November 2016.

The Taliban has denied responsibility for the bombing. Its spokesperson has said that they have never attacked mosques because it is not their agenda.
The attack comes a week after a blast at a US army base in Bagram, 35 miles north of Kabul, in which four Americans were killed.
A Government chief executive has branded the attack as a "war crime and an act against Islam and humanity." In his words - 'this attack is against religions, faiths, humanity, human ideologies and every human belief. This is a sign of barbarism and cruelty.... Afghans care for the blood of their people. Our security forces will hold the perpetrators accountable by bringing them to justice.


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ISIS carries out suicide bombing in Qamishli - death toll at least 44

At least 44 persons have been killed in a massive bomb blast in Qamishli and has injured dozens in Syria - it was an attack by the ISIS and is believed to be in retaliation to was airstrikes against its forces. The airstrikes were in the town of Manbij, a stronghold for the jihadist group in Syria's Aleppo province. This attack was the biggest to hit Kurdish-majority Qamishli since the start of the civil war in 2011.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 27 July 2016.

Kurdish officials have revealed that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who was driving an explosives-laden truck. It was initially described as a double bombing, but it has since been clarified that the bomb had detonated a nearby fuel container which led to a second explosion.
Syrian state media has revealed that 44 people had been killed and 140 injured, while the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has revealed that 48 had been killed including women and children. Qamishli is under the shared control of the Syrian regime and Kurdish authorities and the attack was targeted at Kurdish administration buildings including the defense ministry - the area is considered a secure zone.
It may be noted that more than 280,000 people have been killed in Syria since the war began and more than half the country's population has been displaced by the ensuing violence.


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Suspected al-Shabaab militants launch suicide attack on a hotel in Mogadishu

Suspected al-Shabaab militants have launched a suicide attack on a hotel in the capital Mogadishu killing at least five civilians. As confirmed by local security forces, a suicide bomber is believed to have detonated a truck bomb at the gate of the Naasa-Hablood hotel which was then stormed by a group of heavily-armed men.
The al-Shabaab has links with al-Qaeda and they have claimed responsibility for the attack.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 25 June 2016.

The terrorists are believed to have taken a number of hostages because it is a popular location among the Somali political elite and members of the nation's diaspora who return to the city on business. The terrorists took positions behind blast walls and sandbags and armed guards are trying to repel the militants and, as per reports of eyewitnesses, there was a huge blast followed by heavy machine gunfire.
The intention of the al-Shabaab is to topple the Western-backed government and it has been observed that during Ramadan they target public areas where people gather before they break their daily fast. It may be recalled that in early June an overnight siege by extremist gunmen at another hotel in the capital had left 15 people dead, two of them were members of parliament and al-Shabab had claimed responsibility for that attack also.


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At least 39 killed in ISIS suicide attacks in Baghdad to divert attention from Fallujah

Islamic State has carried out a number of suicide bombings in Baghdad that have left 39 people dead. The deadliest of these was in a commercial area of a majority Shia neighborhood where at least 15 civilians were killed and 35 wounded.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 10 June 2016.

There was a second blast when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into an Iraqi army checkpoint north of Baghdad killing at least 12 people. The third attack was in the town of Taji 12 miles north of Baghdad. The dead in this were seven civilians and five troops with another 30 injured.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for these attacks but the information could not be independently verified. Baghdad has been the target of near-daily attacks in recent weeks by the Sunni militant group and these are believed to be attempts to distract the attention of the security forces from the fighting taking place on the front line.
Iraqi special forces have pushed into the IS-held city of Fallujah as part of a large-scale military operation launched last month. This city located about 40 miles west of Baghdad, is one of the last major IS strongholds in western Iraq. ISIS is still in control of territory in the country's north, including Mosul, which is Iraq's second largest city.


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Suicide bombings in Baghdad kill 43 - brings total death in 7 days to more than 145

Baghdad is witnessing suicide bomb attacks and in the latest one, at least 43 people have been killed. It was the second attack within a week in the Iraqi capital and it brings the death toll to more than 145 in just seven days. Such an unrest highlights the continued existence of significant flaws in the security procedures in Baghdad. Obviously, this subject has gone largely unaddressed even though US-led forces are imparting training to Iraqi forces for the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 18 May 2016.

The deadliest attack was in the Sadr City area in northern Baghdad. Here, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle and killed at least 21 people. The second attack was in the Shaab area, also in northern Baghdad where the number of casualties was at least 19. It seems a female suicide bomber had carried out the attack. A police colonel said a roadside bombing was followed by the suicide attack. The third attack was a car bombing in the Rashid area of southern Baghdad in which at least three people died.
However, the ISIS has issued a statement claiming the attack and saying it was carried out by a man who first threw hand grenades and then detonated a suicide belt.
Incidentally, attacks by female suicide bombers are rare in Iraq even though they were once more common than they have become in recent years. It may be recalled that two mentally handicapped women wearing suicide vests had killed nearly 100 people at Baghdad pet markets in early 2008. The next year, two women detonated explosives at one of the country`s holiest Shiite sites the following year, killing more than 60 people. And, later, in 2010, an attack on Shiite pilgrims by a female bomber left over 40 dead.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Rashid and Sadr City, but IS has claimed a series of other attacks in and near Baghdad that have killed more than 100 people in seven days.


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ISIS is hatching plans to carry out terror attacks across Europe this summer - they would be targeting holidaying tourists by posing as innocent ice cream and T-shirt sellers. This has been revealed by Italian intelligence chiefs. According to BND (Germany's equivalent of MI6), the beaches which are definitely targeted include resorts in southern France, the Costa del Sol in Spain and both coasts in Italy.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 19 April 2016.

German media has indicated that ISIS is sending jihadists who would pretend to be selling refreshments before detonating suicide vests and bombs that would be buried under sun loungers at Spanish, French and Italian resorts. The intention is to bring bloodshed to holiday resorts.
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#suicidebombing #mosque #karachi #shiitemuslim It was a tragedy of unimaginable proportions when suicide bombers killed 61 worshippers in a mosque in Shikarpur district of southern Sindh province as reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 31 January 2015 – this is located about 300 miles north of Karachi, the biggest city in Pakistan.
As a result, thousands of Shiite Muslims took to the streets to protest against the when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of a mosque during Friday prayers.
The incident happened during Friday prayers and people in large numbers attended the funeral prayers for the dead on Saturday. This day had been designated as a day of mourning by the provincial government. Other took to the streets to protest against the bombings.
The crowds consisted mostly of Shiite Muslims. They carried black flags and beat their chests as they offered their prayers, one after another.
Karachi is the economic heart of Pakistan and Sindh's provincial capital. It was also shut down for the day, with hundreds of Shiites staging protest rallies.
As reported by the police, the devastating explosion was a suicide attack. The explosives were strapped to the body of the suicide bomber and he selected such a place in the mosque that would cause huge destruction and maximum damage. The bomb was loaded with steel pellets, ball bearings and other types of shrapnel.
The shadowy Jandullah militant group, a splinter faction of the Pakistani Taliban, has accepted responsibility or the attack.