A veteran journalist working for Al Jazeera was killed on Wednesday during an Israeli operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, prompting the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Qatar-based network to blame the Israeli Army for her death.
In a brazen attack, a top Pakistani prosecutor handling the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case and Benazir Bhutto assassination case was shot and killed near his home in Islamabad on Friday, leaving both high-profile cases in limbo.
ISIS militants have killed at least 14 Real Madrid fans at a supporters club in northern Iraq.
To unidentified gunmen on Friday opened fire on the car of a prominent journalist here, leaving his driver dead and guard injured. TV anchor and editor Raza Rumi's car was fired at near Raja Market area of the city.
Cricket teams have previously abandoned tours amid outbreaks of violence.
Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying Shia pilgrims in Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Friday killing 18 people in the latest in a string of attacks in the region targeting the minority community.
A top Shia leader of the ruling Pakistan People's Party was gunned down by suspected terrorists outside his medical clinic in Peshawar city in the country's restive northwest on Wednesday, officials said.
An Indian man was shot when he failed to answer a question on Islam asked by Somalian militants who were holding hostages after killing 68 people at an upmarket mall in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
Pakistan officials are hoping this month's mini home series against Bangladesh will finally convince neighbouring India to renew bilateral cricket ties between the two Asian cricket powerhouses.
The brutal Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan assault has claimed 141 lives, including 132 school children, six terrorists and three armymen.
"We are ready to die as martyrs," the Charlie Hebdo killers have reportedly said after they seized a hostage and are now holed up on an industrial estate near a Paris airport, at Dammartin-en-Goele, north-east of the capital, where they are surrounded by dozens of armed police.
Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram on Tuesday night shot or burned to death 59 boys in a boarding school in north-east Nigeria.
Former NSG commando Surender Singh, who risked his life while fighting the terrorists during the 26/11 attacks, finally exposes his predicament after not receiving pension for the last 13 months. Priyanka reports from New Delhi.
The gunman was killed in an exchange of fire with a law enforcement officer, who too received multiple gunshot wounds but is out of danger.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday vowed to trace the "roots" of the culprits who supplied weapons and explosives to the terrorists who killed 20 people, mostly foreigners, in a barbaric attack on a cafe in Dhaka.
The Taliban had promised an 'inclusive' government that represents Afghanistan's complex ethnic makeup, but there is no Hazara member in the cabinet.
Suspected militants shot and killed a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader in the erstwhile Taliban stronghold of Swat in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said.
Sabri, 45, and an associate were travelling in a car in Karachi's Liquatabad 10 area when unidentified motorcycle-borne gunmen fired at their vehicle, critically injuring them.
India on Thursday asked Pakistan to hand over Mumbai terror attack accused Hafiz Saeed and Dawood Ibrahim, who also figures in the country's most wanted list, to it if the neighbouring country is serious about fighting terrorism.
A mayor from southern Philippines, his wife and two others have been fatally shot in a daring attack at a Manila airport terminal that also wounded four other people.
A top official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has indicated that it is close to signing a deal with a leading international team to tour the country, which has not hosted a Test nation since 2009. Najam Sethi, who heads the PCB's executive committee, said on a television channel that he cannot disclose the name of the concerned team, but it was a leading side.
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Four motorcycle-borne Taliban militants on Monday shot dead a diplomat of Saudi Arabia -- a staunch United States ally -- in Karachi, apparently to avenge Osama bin Laden's killing by American forces in Pakistan.
The Muslim Brotherhood struggling for its existence in Egypt accused security forces of carrying out "cold-blooded" murder after at least 36 Islamists were killed while they tried to escape from a prison convoy.
At least 10 people, including women and children, were killed on Wednesday when armed terrorists attacked houses of pro-government peace militia members in northwest Pakistan.
'If religious scholars and preachers declare suicide attacks as un-Islamic and decree that suicide bombers will be denied an Islamic burial and funeral rites, it may dissuade some would-be terrorists who dream of an afterlife in heaven,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Former Mexico defender Ignacio Flores has died after a truck he was travelling in was shot at by unidentified gunmen near Cuernavaca.
No one was injured in the attack, said officials.
The cartoonist, who designed the front page of Charlie Hebdo magazine in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, has said that he will no longer draw the Prophet Muhammad.
It was the fourth such incident in Bihar in less than a fortnight.
Five female health workers administering polio vaccines to children, including a 14-year-old girl, were killed in attacks by unidentified gunmen in the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Peshawar on Tuesday prompting authorities to suspend their anti-polio campaign.
Accompanied by his son who managed to escape unhurt, Kanwaljit received multiple injuries in his thigh and torso and is currently undergoing treatment at a local hospital.
Major Surendra Roy of the Bihar Regimental Centre was shot dead by three gunmen when he was moving on Gola Road in Patna on a motorbike.
Political violence has rocked Karachi once again after motorcycle-borne gunmen opened fire in a busy market shooting down 12 people and injuring many others. The attack in the city's biggest junk market for car spare parts occurred on Tuesday night, taking the toll of target killings in the last five days to 55.
Seven gunmen boarded an AC-III tier coach of the train at the Bhabhua Road station on the Mughalsarai-Sasaram section of the East-Central Railway and went on a looting spree.
The gunmen, who were riding a motorcycle, fired indiscriminately at a group of PAF personnel at Pasni Bazar in Gwadar district on Monday.
A Pakistani provincial legislator and three of his bodyguards were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on Thursday.
Togo's national team will return home and not compete in Africa's biggest soccer tournament, captain Emmanuel Adebayor said on Sunday, after gunmen killed a squad coach and press officer in an ambush.
A constable was killed and two others were injured after three unidentified men on motorbike fired at them in Old Hyderabad on Friday afternoon.
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