Ramadan Bombathon
No need to keep up daily, but if you peek in from time to time you will find that during the holiest of all months for Islam, is no different than any other month. In fact, the radical muslims take advantage of this month.
So only 6 days in, there have been 35 attacks and 169 deaths.
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Sufi shrine bombing in Pakistan kills at least 10
ISLAMABAD — A bombing outside one of Pakistan’s most revered Sufi shrines killed at least 10 people, including five police officers, and wounded at least 20 other people, officials said, raising new concerns about militant violence targeting a moderate strand of Islam.
The bombing took place Wednesday morning in Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, near the shrine of an 11th century Sufi saint, Abul Hasan Ali Bin Usman, more popularly known as Data Ganj Bakhsh Hajveri. Police officials said it destroyed a van carrying police commandos who were providing security at the shrine.
Rest - https://www.sfgate.com/world/article...0-13829697.php
9 civilians killed in landmine explosions in Afghanistan
KABUL, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Nine civilians were killed and nine others wounded in landmine explosions in two Afghan provinces, authorities said Friday.
In one incident on Friday morning, five civilians were killed and four others wounded after a vehicle carrying them touched off an improvised explosive device (IED) in Nawa Maish district of central Daykundi province, district chief Hajji Baal Khan told Xinhua.
The wounded were shifted to the district hospital and the next-of-kin of the victims were notified, the official added.
In northern Faryab province, four children were killed and five others wounded in an IED blast in a village of Dawlat Abad district on Thursday evening, provincial police spokesman Abdul Karim Urash told Xinhua.
The children were returning after grazing their animals before the explosion.
Rest - http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asi..._138048578.htm
IS militants attack house, kill 8 persons in right coast of Mosul
Nineveh (IraqiNews) A security source informed, on Thursday, that eight persons were slaughtered by militants from the Islamic State group, when the latter attacked their house in the right coast of Mosul.
The source said in a press statement that militants from the Islamic State group stormed the house of the elder of Kawar area, located in the right coast of the city of Mosul, while pointed out that the militants slaughtered the elder, his wife and his six sons.
Security forces cordoned off the area, and transferred the bodies to the forensic medicine department, he further added.
Rest - https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/i...oast-of-mosul/
ISIS claims responsibility for suicide bomber blast in Baghdad
BAGHDAD - Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for a blast in Baghdad, saying a suicide bomber had detonated an explosive vest in the northeastern Sadr City district of the Iraqi capital and killed eight people.
"He, thanks to God almighty, entered into a gathering of infidels ... and detonated his vest, killing eight and wounding more than 10 others," the group said in a statement.
Rest - https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/...Baghdad-589309
Five killed in attack on charitable group in Afghanistan
(CNN)Five people were killed and 24 injured in a terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, authorities said.
The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, in the aftermath of which four terrorists were also killed, according to the Afghan government.
Just before noon local time on Wednesday, the attackers detonated an explosive-laden vehicle at the gates of non-governmental organization Counterpart International in the Afghan capital, said Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimy. Images following the blast showed a plume of black smoke rising over the city
Four terrorists were able to enter the organization's offices before Afghan special forces arrived, Rahimy said. During a nearly five-hour battle, all four were killed. Two hundred of the organization's employees were rescued by Afghan forces. The death toll includes one woman and one special forces member.
Rest - https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/08/asia/...ntl/index.html
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