Bombs targeting Shiite Muslims in areas south of Baghdad on Thursday killed eight people and wounded 20 others, security and medical officials said.

Simultaneous car bombings killed more than 50 civilians and left a trail of destruction in a town near Syria's capital Wednesday, as rebels downed a second military aircraft in as many days.

Simultaneous car bombings killed more than 50 civilians and left a trail of destruction in a town near Syria's capital Wednesday, as rebels downed a second military aircraft in as many days.

Simultaneous car bombings killed more than 50 people and left a trail of destruction in a town near Syria's capital on Wednesday, as rebels downed a second military aircraft in as many days.

Simultaneous car bombings killed at least 38 people and left a trail of destruction in a town near Syria's capital on Wednesday, as rebels downed a military aircraft for a second straight day.

Simultaneous bombings in the mostly Druze and Christian town of Jaramana near Damascus on Wednesday killed at least 38 people and sent residents fleeing in panic, a watchdog and witnesses said.

Simultaneous bombings in the mostly Druze and Christian town of Jaramana near Damascus killed at least 29 people and left dozens injured on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

A wave of attacks including six car bombs, nine roadside bombs and a shooting killed 19 people and wounded 71 others on Tuesday in Iraq, security and medical officials said.

Car bombs near Shiite places of worship, known as husseiniyahs, in north Baghdad killed at least 12 people and wounded at least 50 on Tuesday, officials said.

A car bomb hit a security post near Damascus on Tuesday killing two soldiers as fighting raged around the capital and in northern Syria, where at least five people died in an air strike near an olive press, a watchdog said.

Car bombs killed four people in Kurdish areas of the disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, while roadside bombs killed two more in a nearby Arab town, a security official and a doctor said.

A car bomb hit a police checkpoint in a town southwest of Damascus, as the army deployed in large numbers nearby in a bid to suppress insurgents there, a monitoring group said.

A suicide bomber rammed a bus into a church at a military barracks in restive northern Nigeria on Sunday and another detonated his explosives-packed car minutes later, killing 11 people and wounding dozens more.

Two suicide attacks on a church in an army barracks in the northern Nigerian town of Jaji on Sunday left eleven people dead and 30 injured, the army said.

Afghanistan has closed down three major public universities in the capital Kabul for more than a week after sectarian clashes left one student dead and nearly 30 others wounded, an official said Sunday.

A bomb blast claimed by the Taliban killed eight people near a Shiite Muslim procession in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, in the latest attack against the minority during their holy month.

A bomb blast claimed by the Taliban killed seven people near a Shiite procession in northwest Pakistan Saturday, despite heightened security across the country.

In a brave gesture of defiance against suicide bombers, Afghanistan's "girl-in-green" on Saturday revisited the scene of a Shiite Muslim holy-day massacre that made her image world famous.

A suicide car bomber killed three people and wounded dozens near a NATO-run training base on Friday, in an attack claimed by the Taliban as revenge for the execution of its militants.

Afghan police said Friday they had arrested two suicide bombers planning to attack Shiite Muslims in Kabul on the anniversary of the massacre of 80 worshippers on Ashura last year.