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St Anthony Shrine in Sri Lanka was subject to attacks on Easter weekend. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)

Sri Lanka attack mastermind used chatrooms to sway suicide bombers

Investigators believe the group also used social media private messenges to keep in touch without being noticed by the authorities

Gauteng premier David Makhura. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Somalia’s deadliest bombing kills 276, injures 300

​At least 276 people have been killed and 300 injured by a massive truck bomb that tore through a busy shopping district of Mogadishu

‘We only die once … It might as well be for Jesus’

Werner Groenewald dedicated 12 years of his life in Kabul, Afghanistan before he and his two children were killed by Taliban suicide bombers.

Patrols in Maiduguri

Twin bombs rock northeastern Nigerian city

Although the death toll is still unknown, the suicide bombers – both women – killed more than 10 people, according to reports.

Members of the emergency services work at the site of a bomb blast on a trolleybus in Volgograd.

SA government condemns ‘terrorism’ in Russia

The government has spoken out against two suicide bombings in the Russian town of Volgograd, in which over 30 people died and many were injured.

Police block the way to a Volgograd train station after a female suicide bomber blew up the entrance hall

Fresh attack in Russia leaves many dead following suicide bombing

A day after a deadly suicide bombing at a train station in Volgograd, Russia, a blast in the same city has left 10 people dead.

Sunday’s blast was the deadliest in Russia since a suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport killed 37 people in January 2011.

Russia: Death toll rises after suicide-bomb attack

The death toll in Volgograd, Russia, has risen to 16 after a suicide bomber targeted a train station in the city ahead of the Olympic Games.

Al-Shabab suicide bomber kills 12 in Somalia

A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a small restaurant in a city north of the capital on Saturday, killing at least 12 others, police said.

The two bombers struck at the end of a service at All Saints Church in Peshawar, the main town of north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which has borne the brunt of a bloody Islamist insurgency in recent years. (AFP)

Dozens killed in Pakistan as suicide bombers hit church

Two bombers have struck a church in Peshawar, killing more than 60 and wounding 120 people, say officials.

The Taliban has denied responsibility for an attack on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad.

Attack on Indian consulate in Afghanistan kills nine

Suicide bombers have targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing nine people and injuring 21 others.

More than 16 killed after weekend attacks in Afghanistan

A suicide attack has claimed six lives and air attacks have killed 10 children over a weekend that served as a reminder of Afghanistan’s conflict.

Suicide bomber attack kills three at Iraqi checkpoint

A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives at an Iraqi army checkpoint north of Baghdad, killing at least three people, says police.

Local Muslims say the suicide bomb that killed eight South Africans was a senseless act of violence.

Afghan attack ‘a gross injustice’, says SA’s muslim community

Prominent members of SA’s Muslim community have condemned this week’s suicide bomb attack in Kabul that claimed the lives of eight South Africans.

Civilians bear the brunt of the violence in Afghanistan

Afghan politician amongst 22 dead in suicide bomb attack

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding reception in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 40 others.

Russia to lift grain export ban

Putin vows revenge for suicide bombing

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed revenge on Tuesday for a suicide bombing that killed at least 35 people at Russia’s busiest airport.

Condemnation follows Russian airport blast

Condemnation follows Russian airport blast

Swift condemnation followed a suicide blast at Moscow’s main airport that killed 35 people on Monday.

Suicide bomber targets Russia’s biggest airport

Suicide bomber targets Russia’s biggest airport

At least 31 people were killed and more than 130 injured on Monday in a suicide bombing at Russia’s biggest airport, state-run TV reported.

Bomb attacks on Shi’ites and Iraqi police kill at least 48

Bomb attacks on Shi’ites and Iraqi police kill at least 48

At least 48 people were killed in Iraq on Thursday in bombings targeting Shi’ite pilgrims and police as United States troops prepare to withdraw.

Jihadi home truths

Jihadi home truths

Why would someone want to bomb the country where he grew up?

Suicide bomb kills dozens at Iran mosque

Thirty people were killed and 55 injured Wednesday in a suicide bombing at a mosque in Iran’s south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.