This was the first attack in the Tunisian capital since November 24, 2015 when a suicide bombing killed 12 security agents on a bus for presidential guards. That attack was claimed by the so-called Islamic State jihadist group. read more

Three civilians and two policemen were among the dead, the police said, adding that the casualty figure could rise as policemen and first responders were busy recovering the wounded and bodies from collapsed walls and debris. read more

Military prosecutors had accused the men of belonging to the Islamic State group and plotting attacks against Christian churches and security forces. read more

The attack took place in Nangarhar province’s Kama district on Tuesday afternoon where supporters of Abdul Naser Mohmand had gathered to back his campaign as an independent candidate in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections scheduled for October 20. read more

At least three people were killed, including a child, after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside a district headquarters in Somalia’s capital. read more

A militant wearing a suicide vest blew himself up just after midnight at Adnan al-Ganam’s house in the village of Asdira, Colonel Khalil al-Sahn, the police chief of surrounding Shirqat district, told Reuters. read more

Weeks of relative calm in Kabul were shattered by a suicide attack on an educational centre in a mainly Shi’ite area in the west of the Afghan capital that killed at least 48 people and wounded 67. read more

A suicide bomb targeted a Shia mosque in Afghanistan killing at least 29 people during Friday prayers read more

The suicide attack claimed by the Taliban, occurred at around 5 am local time when a car bomber targeted the security convoy in the west of the city, Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said. read more

The suicide bombings in the city of Sweiba were apparently timed to coincide with attacks by a militant group linked to the Islamic state in a number of villages in the province, also called Sweida. read more

The attack in Mastung in southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, claimed by the Islamic State group, was one of the deadliest in Pakistan’s history. read more

Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were arrested by anti-corruption officials on Friday after their arrival in Lahore from Abu Dhabi. read more

Earlier in the day, a bomb blast killed four people in the northern town of Bannu when it struck the campaign convoy of Akram Khan Durrani. read more

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a city in Afghanistan where President Ashraf Ghani was visiting, killing at least 19 people, many of them Sikhs. The attacker struck a market located hundreds of metres from the provincial governor’s compound where Ghani was holding meetings, governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told AFP. On Tuesday hundreds of members of India’s Sikh community took to the streets and protested the killings of these Sikhs and Hindus who lived in Afghanistan. Brandishing black flags and chanting they marched near Afghanistan embassy in New Delhi on Monday. (HT Correspondent)read more

The Sikh community, which now numbers fewer than 300 families in Afghanistan, are split about their future in the country. Some believe they cannot live there anymore while others say they will not be cowed down by the militant Islamic State. read more