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Syrian state television said Wednesday that a bombing in Damascus killed Defense Minister Daoud Rajha and his deputy, Asef Shawkat, who was the brother-in-law and close confidante of President Bashar al-Assad.

NATO says 13 service members have been killed in a suicide car bombing in Kabul.

The death toll from a suicide car-bomb attack at the U.N.'s Nigeria headquarters has risen to 23, a U.N. spokesman said Sunday, making Friday's attack one of the deadliest attacks on the U.N. in a decade.

Iraqi police say at least 31 people were killed and some 48 others wounded in three suicide bomb attacks in the northern city of Baquba Wednesday.