Suicide Bombers

Suicide Bomber Kills 3 In Pakistan

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Pesh...

A Muslim Soldier's View from Fort Hood

Kamran Pasha | Posted 11.06.2009 | World


Kamran Pasha

I spoke today with a friend who is a Muslim soldier stationed at Fort Hood. He and Hasan prayed side-by-side at the mosque the morning of the massacre. He agreed to share his story with me if I granted him anonymity.

Ali Jafari, Head of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Vows Revenge On US And Britain

Times Online | Jenny Booth | Posted 10.19.2009 | World


The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards today vowed to take revenge against Britain and the United States whom he claims backed the group that killed ...

Superfreakonomics (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books


It's the only thing that could top Freakonomics Meet the PROFESSORS, PROSTITUTES, DOCTORS, INVENTORS, PSYCOLOGISTS, and OTHER REAL-LIFE CHARACTER...

U.N. Ambassador Kohona: Sri Lanka Refugee Situation Improving

Jim Luce | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


Jim Luce

Fourteen years after the civil war in Rwanda, refugees are still living in mud huts.  In Bosnia, following Balkanization, people lacked heat and ...

Media Literacy 101: Of Mothers, Pakistan, Suicide Bombs, and Track II Diplomacy

Susan Moeller | Posted 10.15.2009 | World


Susan Moeller

Too much of what comes back to the US about Pakistan is breaking news of such events as a suicide attack. We Americans project our own fears, our own concerns on them.

Suicide Bomber Attacks Kabul Airport Base (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.08.2009 | World


KABUL: A suicide car bomb outside a NATO military base at Kabul's main airport killed at least three civilians on Tuesday, in the worst attack on the ...

Afghan Deputy Intelligence Chief Among 23 Killed In Taliban Suicide Blast

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.18.2009 | World


KABUL — A Taliban suicide bomber attacked officials leaving a mosque east of the capital Wednesday, killing the country's deputy intelligence ch...

Our Suicide Bombers: Thoughts on Western Jihad

John Feffer | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics


John Feffer

We have our suicide bombers -- we call them heroes. We have our culture of indoctrination -- we call it basic training. We kill civilians -- we call it collateral damage.

Rania Ibrahim, Iraqi Teen Girl, Gets 7 1/2 Years For Bombing Attempt

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 09.06.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — A car bomb tore through a crowded market in a Kurdish area in the disputed city of Kirkuk on Thursday, killing at least five people in...

Iraq: Baghdad Blast Walls To Be Removed

AP | Posted 09.05.2009 | World


BAGHDAD (AP) -- All blast walls designed to protect the streets of Baghdad will soon be taken off major thoroughfares, the Iraqi military said Wednesd...

Suicide is Painful

David Horton | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics


David Horton

The war on terror isn't winning the war on terror. If someone is happy to die in the attempt to kill people, then it is almost impossible to stop them doing so.

Taliban Recruited Children As Bombers: Officials

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 08.28.2009 | World


ISLAMABAD — Security forces have rescued several children forcibly recruited by the Taliban, allegedly to be used as fighters or suicide bombers...

Isa Ibrahim, British Muslim Convert, Jailed In UK For Suicide Bomb Plot

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 08.17.2009 | World


LONDON — A British Muslim convert was jailed Friday for plotting to carry out a suicide bomb attack on a shopping mall in southern England. Isa...

Why the "New Atheists" are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy

Robert Wright | Posted 08.13.2009 | World


Robert Wright

It must strike progressive atheists as a stroke of bad luck that Christopher Hitchens, leading atheist spokesperson, happens to have hawkish views on foreign policy.

Taliban Buys Children To Serve As Suicide Bombers: Report

Washington Times | Click the Photo to Enlarge. | Posted 08.02.2009 | World


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Taliban Buys Children To Serve As Suicide Bombers: Report

Washington Times | Click the Photo to Enlarge. | Posted 08.02.2009 | World


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Obama's Doublespeak on Iran

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 07.13.2009 | World


Ismael Hossein-zadeh

In terms of actual policy measures, President Obama and his foreign policy team have not taken any steps to reverse or mitigate the hostile policies their predecessors put into effect against Iran.

Afghan Suicide Bomber Kills Civilian Family Of At Least 6 Near Bagram

Quqnoos | Posted 07.03.2009 | World


At least six civilians were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a civilian vehicle in Bagram on Tuesday, officials said. The civilians, including t...

Israel War Preparation Drill Biggest Ever

Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2009 | World


In what is being touted as Israel's most mass-scale war preparation drill ever, 'Turning Point 3' will over the course of five days involve both milit...

Battleground Lahore: Taliban in the City

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World


Shirin Sadeghi

The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.

Afghani Officials: Suicide Bomb Kills 7, Wounds 21 At US Base

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 06.13.2009 | World


KABUL — A suicide car bomber killed seven people and wounded 21 others Wednesday outside a U.S. military base in the same part of eastern Afghan...

My Own Green Zone

Huffington Post Citizen Journalist | Peter Holley | Posted 05.30.2009 | World


By Peter Holley, Huffington Post Contributor The two men on the television screen trotted across a grassy roundabout as they unleashed staccato bur...

HRC-- Hillary Rodham Cheney -- in Iraq?

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.26.2009 | World


Jacob Heilbrunn

No matter what gloss the Obama administration puts on it, it's between Iraq and a hard place. And emulating Cheney isn't going to help matters.

Iraqi Child Suicide Bombers In Training Arrested: Iraqi Forces

UPI | Posted 05.22.2009 | World


Iraqi forces arrested four children, all under 14, who are allegedly linked to al-Qaida and training to become suicide bombers, an Iraqi general said....