18/8/11 - Bombings and rocket attacks reported in Gaza and Israel

The Israeli military bombed sites in Gaza and militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel on Friday as tensions remained high a day after one of the worst terrorist attacks on Israelis in recent years.

A rocket that hit the Israeli port city of Ashdod injured six people, including one who suffered serious wounds, the Israeli medical services said. It was one of 14 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel on Friday, the Israeli military said.

Also Friday, Israeli jets bombed a group of militants in Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, injuring one, and hit a militant training field, Palestinian security sources said. An airstrike north of Gaza City killed a boy in a home and injured five early Friday, Palestinian medical officials said. Three other people were injured in a strike on a Hamas government compound south of the city, they said.

The Israeli military said it hit two weapons manufacturing sites in central Gaza and "terror activity" sites in northern and southern Gaza. Israeli forces also fired on a militant as he prepared to fire a rocket in northern Gaza; the military said the militant fled.

The attacks come a day after assailants killed seven Israelis in a string of attacks on buses, civilian vehicles and soldiers in southern Israel on Thursday.

Israeli police said an eighth Israeli, a special operations officer, was killed late Thursday in fighting with Sinai border infiltrators. (more) 

19/8/11 - Suicide Bombers Hit UK Offices In Kabul

Suicide bombers have attacked the British Council offices in Kabul on the public holiday marking Afghanistan's independence from Britain. 
At least three people were killed in an initial attack from a car bomb outside the building, the city's criminal investigations chief told the AFP news agency.
But a fresh explosion from a suicide bomber inside the building took the death toll to at least eight. Most of the dead are thought to be police.
Insurgents holed themselves up inside the compound and exchanged fire with Afghan and Nato security forces for more than four hours after the first blast.
"Eight people, mostly police, are killed and 10 others injured," Siddiq Siddiqui of Afghanistan's interior ministry said.
"There is one person, one of the attackers who is still alive and resisting. The area has not yet been cleared."
The Times' Kabul correspondent Jerome Starkey told Sky News gun battles continued after the blasts amid the bombed offices. Read More 

25/04/2011 - Three bombs rock northeastern Nigerian city, many feared dead

Three bombs rock northeastern Nigerian city, many feared dead

English.news.cn   2011-04-25 14:41:45

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Three bomb blasts have hit a northeastern Nigerian city as many were feared dead, a Xinhua witness said on Monday.

The blast occurred late Sunday ahead of Nigeria's state governorship election slated on Tuesday.

Xinhua reporter in Maiduguri, the state capital said the explosions were recorded at a popular motor park (Tarsan Kano and Madaganari).

He said many fear dead.

Security officials in the state did not respond to calls and text messages when contacted.

Sunday's bombs attack came at a time when serial killings by suspected members of the sect group Boko Haram, continued in Borno.

More than 50 other people, mostly security personnel, had so far been killed by suspected Boko Haram militants since July 2009, when they launched attacks on individuals. The Boko Haram launched the first attack in the state in July 2009, during which many were killed and wounded with properties destroyed.

The sect's leader Mohammed Yusuf and his alleged financier Buji Foi were killed in a counter attack by the security operative.

Members of the sect staged an uprising in Maiduguri in 2009, attacking symbols of the government authority including prisons, police stations and schools, leading to clashes with security forces in which an estimated hundreds of people were killed.