Mali Gets Its First Suicide Bomber
After French forces changed the dynamic of the conflict in Mali, it has now taken on another new, and sadly predictable, turn—suicide attacks.
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Just one day after Russia and the Arab League proposed to facilitate talks between President Bashar al Assad's government and Syrian opposition forces, a massive car bomb has detonated in the heart of Damascus—right where the Russian embassy is located.
After French forces changed the dynamic of the conflict in Mali, it has now taken on another new, and sadly predictable, turn—suicide attacks.
A suicide bomber in attacked a mosque in Afghanistan on Friday, just as worshipers were meeting to mark the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday.
A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform attacked a NATO unit on foot patrol Monday killing 14 people in the latest deadly assault on the beleaguered coalition.
A suicide bomber targeting foreign workers in Kabul has killed 14 people, and the group responsible is trying to tie the attack to the still ongoing protests over the anti-Muslim video.
The Shiite-Sunni sectarian fighting that drove so much of the violence in post-war Iraq has largely been absent from Afghanistan, but suicide attacks that killed 58 people in Afghanistan on Tuesday point to a disturbing trend toward religious violence there.
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