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Pakistani soldiers killed at least 45 Taliban militants in scattered gunbattles across the northwestern Swat Valley after a suicide bombing on a police station killed 17 cadets, the army said Monday.

A suicide bomber hit a Pakistani security checkpoint Thursday at the main border crossing for convoys ferrying NATO supplies ...

Pakistani authorities arrested 13 Islamist militants and seized suicide vests, bomb-making material and heroin in separate raids that police said Monday had foiled major attacks in the country's south and east.

The explosions and a suicide bombing that killed three soldiers seemed further indications of Afghanistan’s precarious security situation just days before elections.

A suicide car bomber killed 38 people as they left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque just outside the volatile northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said Friday, while a series of bombs in Baghdad killed six Shi'ite pilgrims.

A new Taliban military "code of conduct" calls for restrictions on suicide attacks aimed at avoiding the killing of civilians, but U.S. and Afghan military officials dismissed the document as propaganda, calling it hypocritical.

Two U.S. soldiers also die in a separate bombing as violence grows in scattered areas of the nation. A powerful truck bomb killed at least 25 people today, more than half of them schoolchildren, in a province just south of Kabul.

A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy carrying the president of the troubled Russian province of Ingushetia Monday, critically wounding him and killing two bodyguards — the latest in a string of assassination attempts that have roiled the North Caucasus.

At least 25 people have been killed and 150 wounded in a truck bombing near a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, police said.

Reporting from Mogadishu, Somalia, and Nairobi, Kenya -- Islamic insurgents killed Somalia's top security minister and 22 other people today in a suicide car-bomb attack at a hotel frequented by government officials.