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(AP) — Afghanistan’s intelligence agency prevented a large terrorist attack, arresting a Pakistani citizen driving a truck packed with explosives, according to a statement Thursday.

In eastern Paktya province, six Taliban militants were killed and two others wounded Thursday when the roadside bomb they were building in a mosque exploded, said Roullah Samon, a spokesman for the provincial governor. He said four of those killed were foreign fighters.

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QUETTA: A potential suicide bomber was killed when a detonator he was carrying along with a suicide vest prematurely went off on Kirani Road near Hazara Town, pre-dominantly Shia Muslims’ neighbourhood in Quetta, on Thursday night.

The police officials in plain clothes deputed near Hazara Town tried to stop a suspect and opened fire at him when he tried to run away, Superintendent Police (SP) Brewery Malik Arshid said.

Sources said that the alleged suicide bomber wanted to target the people of Hazara community and the police successfully foiled the attempt.

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(TIME) — When one of Lebanon’s most wanted terrorists kills himself while planting a bomb it is cause for at least some sort of grim celebration. But when the chief bomb-maker of the country’s most notorious terror group self detonates while helping rebels fight in Syria, it is cause for concern.

TIME has learned that Abdel Ghani Jawhar, one of the leaders of the Sunni fundamentalist terror group Fatah al-Islam, died in the Syrian city of Qsair on Friday night. The founding cleric of Fatah al Islam, Sheikh Osama al Shihabi, confirmed Jawhar’s death to TIME with a quote from the Koran: “‘We are for God and to him we return.’ We as Mujahideen are used to being killed and if God wants to give those killed dignity he gives them martyrdom. This is the path of righteousness.”

This is not the first time that Jawhar is thought to have been killed; several previous death announcements have been retracted over the years. News of his death has been relayed by multiple—and unrelated—sources in both Syria and Lebanon. According to a fellow fighter, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Ali, Jawhar had been preparing an explosive device to be used against the Syrian army, which had been attempting to enter the rebel-dominated town not far from Homs. As Abu Ali narrated the tale over Skype, the sound of bombs and explosions could be heard in the background. Jawhar’s bomb went off prematurely, says Abu Ali. “He was killed directly. We wanted to send his body back to Lebanon but we couldn’t because it was torn into pieces.” Instead Jawhar’s fellow fighters were forced to bury what was left of him in a neighboring garden because it was impossible to reach the graveyard during heavy fighting.

According to Abu Ali and another fellow fighter, Jawhar arrived in Qsair two weeks ago with a group of 30 Lebanese fighters. While many were members of Fatah al-Islam, they were not traveling under the terror group’s banner. Instead they called themselves mujahideen, holy warriors seeking to help fellow Muslims under attack by the Syrian regime. Jawhar, an explosives expert and a charismatic commander, sought to train fellow fighters how make bombs. In the short time he had been in Qsair, says Abu Ali, he was able to set up dozens of improvised explosive devices destined for members of the Syrian security forces. “His aim was to make a tour in all the districts of Syria to teach the fighters on how to fight a guerrilla war.”

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(Al Jazeera) — Two suspected suicide bombers have died in an explosion outside an intelligence building in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, according to the country’s defence ministry.

The men killed in Friday’s blast in the al-Mansoura district were suspected of having links to al Qaeda, the defence ministry said on its website.

“Two suicide bombers belonging to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network were killed when their motorbike exploded… early on Friday in al-Mansoura,” it said, adding that the intended target of the attack was a branch of the political security services.

“The bomb-laden motorbike exploded with the two suicide bombers whose bodies were left in pieces before they managed to carry out their suicide attack that targetted a branch of the political security services in Mansura,” the website quoted a security official as saying.

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(Bloomberg) — A man was killed while trying to plant a bomb on a petrol tanker in the north-central Nigerian city of Kaduna yesterday, police spokesman Aminu Lawan said.

“The bomb exploded with the man and killed him; he is the only person that died,” Lawan said by phone today from the city.

Authorities in Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, blame Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group, for a surge of attacks since 2009 against government buildings and security forces in the mainly Muslim north and Abuja, the capital.

The group claimed responsibility for multiple blasts and attacks in the city of Kano on Jan. 20 that killed at least 256 people, according to the Civil Rights Congress. In February, a blast at a military checkpoint in Kaduna killed at least one person.

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BARA AKAKHEL: Eight militants including an important commander died on Saturday whilst making a bomb in the area of Bara Akakhel, Khyber agency, Dawn News reported.

According to the security sources, militants were engaged in making the bomb when the IED exploded. The explosiong killed eight people including important commanders Nazir ahmed, Abdul Malik, Haji Toor

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ADEN, March 11 (Reuters) — Air strikes on a factory seized by al Qaeda-linked Islamists in southern Yemen killed at least three of their fighters on Sunday, the militants and residents said.

Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia said the attack was carried out by U.S. drones, which Washington has repeatedly used to target militants in the strife-torn nation. [...]

Two men were killed in the Mudiyah district of Abyan when a bomb they planned to use in an attack on government forces exploded by accident late on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

“The bodies of the two were ripped apart in the explosion, which happened before they were able to execute their attack,” the ministry said in the statement posted on its website, identifying them as Yasser and Muneef al-Hawi.

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KABUL (AFP) — Officials say two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed 14 people, including a group of insurgents who were trying to rig an improvised bomb against Afghan and foreign forces.

Provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi told AFP that in the volatile Nawzad district of Helmand province a group of seven Taliban terrorists died while trying fit as pipe bomb on a vehicle on Monday.

“The explosive-packed pipe detonated killing a Taliban commander along with six of his fighters,” he said. On the same day, seven people, including six women, were killed in an explosion in Nawa district of the same province inside a house used by a local Taliban commander Mullah Manan, a senior security official said.

“We have intelligence that the Taliban commander was making bombs inside the house,” Mohammad Ismail Hotak told AFP.

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(PressTV) — At least two Pakistani paramilitary troops have been killed and several others wounded in two separate attacks in northwestern Pakistan, where government troops are fighting militants, Press TV reports.

Local officials told Press TV that a patrol car used by the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers came under attack in the village of Nala, near Bara in the Khyber tribal region early on Saturday.

A paramilitary soldier was killed and five others wounded during the shootout.

Meanwhile, five militants were killed on Saturday when a bomb that they were preparing at their hideout in the Sarghar area of the Khyber tribal region exploded prematurely.

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PAKISTAN — Two miscreants were killed when a remote control device went off on roadside in the wee hours on Sunday here at Zakhakhel area.

Political administration sources said that two miscreants were planting remote control device with a bridge in Zakhakhel area which went off prematurely while they were planting it.

Bodies of the militants were pierced into pieces by the powerful bomb which was destined to destroy the bridge. It was impossible to identify the militants because their bodies turned into pieces as a result of explosion, official sources said.

Official sources further said that it might be possible that security forces or other officials may be the target of militants who met their fate in the blast because Landi kotal-Torkhum is the main route leading to Afghanistan.

The area was cordoned off by the security forces to net the remaining insurgents in the area.

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KABUL (Xinhua) — Two would-be suicide bombers died as their explosive devices went off prematurely in Farah province, 695 km west of Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, the Interior Ministry said in a press release issued here.

“Two suicide bombers who were attempting to target public interests and kill innocent people in the bazaar of Dilaram district died as their suicide vests exploded prematurely at 08:50 a.m. local time today before reaching the target,” the press release added.

There were no casualties in the blast except the bombers, it stressed.

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(RIA Novosti) — One militant was killed and another wounded in an attempt to plant a bomb near a shop in the town of Buinaksk in the volatile Russian North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, the republican interior ministry reported on Sunday.

The bomb went off when two unidentified persons tried to plant an explosive device early on Sunday near a commercial shop in Chaikovsky Street.

“The explosion was equal to 100 grams of TNT. As a result of the explosion, one of the criminals died of wounds on the scene while the other was taken to hospital. Their identities are being established. The shop was slightly damaged. The sum of the damage is being determined,” the ministry said.

Terrorist attacks and shootouts with police have become commonplace in the mostly-Muslim republic of Dagestan.

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(Bloomberg) — Islamic militants disguised themselves as street cleaners to carry out two bomb blasts last month in Atyrau, the capital of Kazakhstan’s biggest oil- producing region, the Prosecutor General’s Office said.

The explosions near buildings housing local prosecutors and the city’s mayor were part of “an action plan to frighten law- enforcement and other state officials,” the Astana-based office said in a statement on its website today. The attackers dressed in the uniform of communal-service employees while planting the bombs, according to the statement.

Prosecutors confirmed that an armed offshoot of the Jund al-Khilafah group trained the four men behind the blasts. One of them died when a bomb he was carrying exploded prematurely.

Kazakhstan, a predominantly Muslim former Soviet republic that borders Russia and China, has seen an upsurge of attacks in its oil-rich regions.

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Two police officers were indicted Saturday in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and will face trial along with five members of the Pakistani Taliban, a state prosecutor said.

The policemen were charged with failing to provide Bhutto with proper security and with destroying evidence, said the prosecutor, Zulfikar Ali. Their indictment triggers a new trial for the Taliban members so that all seven defendants can be tried together, he said.

The Pakistani Taliban have declared a war on the state and often target Pakistani troops, government officials and minorities.

A suicide bomber heading toward a Shiite mosque was killed Saturday when his bomb detonated prematurely in southwestern Pakistan, said Hamid Shakeel, deputy inspector general in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, where the blast took place.

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HERAT (AIP/ NNI): Three people were killed and two soldiers of Afghan National Army were wounded in a suicide attack late yesterday in Bala Murghab district of western Badghis province, an official said Wednesday. The suicide bomber who was on food detonated next to a convoy of ANA in Tank area of Bala Murghab district at approximately 9:20 p.m. (local time), killing three civilians and wounding two ANA troops, said Haji Sharfuddin Majidi, spokesman for Badghis governor. . . .

He said the bodies of the slain people were brought to Sultankhel Camp and were later handed over to their relatives by Afghan soldiers, adding ISAF troops also recovered weapons and other equipments. Meanwhile, a press release issued by Kandahar governor’s media said an mine planter was killed in Sanzari area of Zehri district yesterday’s afternoon when the explosives he was carrying went off.

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(VOA) — Armed militants launched a suicide attack on a U.S.-run base in northeastern Afghanistan, killing two people.

A provincial police spokesman says four suicide bombers targeted the base of the U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team in an attack early Saturday morning in Panjshir province.

Elsewhere Saturday, two militants were killed and three wounded when the bombs they were assembling prematurely exploded at a house in southern Kandahar province.

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(AFP) — A Palestinian militant was killed in northern Gaza near the border with Israel on Monday, the DFLP group and medics said, in circumstances disputed by the Israeli army.

Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesperson for Gaza’s emergency services, said a man had been killed by Israeli tank fire but his body was so badly disfigured that medics were not immediately able to identify him.

The Israeli military denied any involvement in the incident, saying the man had been killed when an explosive device he was trying to plant went off prematurely — in what it referred to as a “work accident.”

“The army had nothing to do with it. Initial information indicates two suspects were handling an explosive device which killed one of them,” a spokesperson told AFP.

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GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — Four Taliban insurgents died as their explosive device went off accidentally in Ghazni province in southern Afghanistan on Monday, police said.

“Four terrorists were busy in planting a mine on a road in Andar district to target security forces but their explosive device went off prematurely killing all the four on the spot this morning,” district governor Shir Khan Yusufzai told Xinhua.

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KABUL, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) — Afghan and NATO-led forces during operations have eliminated 27 insurgents and detained 14 in different parts of the country over the past 24 hours, Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

“Afghan National Police (ANP), backed by army and Coalition forces, launched nine joint operations in surrounding areas of Kabul, Parwan, Helmand, Wardak, Ghazni, Uruzgan and Khost province over the past 24 hours,” said the statement.

In another development, two insurgents were killed and another was injured when their bomb exploded prematurely in southern Uruzgan province on Friday night.

“Three insurgent were planting a roadside bomb to attack security forces in Mirabad area of Uruzgan’s provincial capital Tirin Kot but their explosive went off prematurely killing two insurgent on the spot,” a police spokesman in the province, Farid Haeel told Xinhua, adding the injured militant was detained by police.

Afghan and ISAF officials often use the word “insurgents” for referring to Taliban insurgents.

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Saturday, September 03, 2011 Kabul (BIA): Eight suspected Taliban insurgents were killed when the bomb in their possession went off prematurely in the southern province of Kandahar on Thursday, an official said.

Another four people were wounded in the blast that took place in Maiwand district in the afternoon, the governor’s spokesman, Zalmay Ayubi said.

Police had launched an investigation into the incident. Elsewhere, two policemen were injured in a bomb blast at a recreation park in Mehtralam, the capital of Laghman province, an official said.