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Aerosmith drops Indonesia show over security fears
Aerosmith canceled a show in Indonesia after authorities there said they had foiled a bomb plot targeting the Myanmar Embassy. Concert promoter Ismaya ...
Car bomber kills 7 in Somali capital
Seven people were killed Sunday morning when a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a ...
Attacks in Iraq kill 9, wound 33
A series of attacks including a blast near an Internet cafe in a Sunni area of Baghdad killed nine people and wounded dozens on Sunday in and around ...
8 Pakistani soldiers and police killed in violence
Military operations and insurgent attacks in lawless districts of Pakistan left eight members of the security forces and around 30 militants and ...
1 dead, 44 injured in blast in Tanzania church
A woman died and 44 people were seriously wounded when a bomb exploded in a Roman Catholic church in northern Tanzania, a Tanzanian police official ...
Man accused of lying after bombings seeks release
Lawyers for a teenager charged with lying to investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings are asking a federal judge to release him from jail, ...
7 American service members killed in Afghanistan
Seven U.S. soldiers and a member of the NATO-led coalition were killed on Saturday in one of the deadliest days for Americans and other foreign troops ...
Boston bomb suspect died of gunshots, blunt trauma
A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said Friday.
Kazakh man linked to Boston suspect 'normal teen'
Former teachers of one of the students from Kazakhstan arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings described him on Friday as an ...
Authorities comb woods near bomb suspect's college
Federal, state and local authorities are searching the woods near the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth campus as part of their investigation of ...
Bomb explosion at Iraq mosque kills 7
A bomb attack outside a Sunni mosque on Friday killed seven worshippers as Sunnis continued to hold demonstrations in Iraq to protest what they say ...
Indonesia says 2 arrested for Myanmar Embassy plot
Hours after Indonesia announced it had foiled an alleged plot to bomb the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta, hundreds of hard-line Muslims gathered outside ...
Police, politicians push surveillance after Boston
Police and politicians across the U.S. are pointing to the surveillance video that was used to help identify the Boston Marathon bombing suspects as ...
For 3, bomb suspect's friendship leads to charges
The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect exchanged text messages with a friend who had become suspicious after seeing what looked like a familiar ...
Kazakhstan says it cooperating with US in probe
Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry says it is cooperating with the United States in the case of two of its citizens arrested in connection with the Boston ...
Official: Arrested student entered US without visa
One of three college students arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the United States from Kazakhstan in ...
FBI: 3 removed backpack from Boston suspect's room
Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of trying to protect him by going into ...
UMass: 1 arrested is suspended, 2 not enrolled
The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth has suspended one student charged in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings and says the other two ...
AP Interview: Sunni Iraq official criticizes force
The Sunni head of a committee established to investigate deadly clashes that erupted at a protest camp in Iraq last week said Wednesday that he ...
Syria's Assad in rare visit as rockets hit capital
Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance at a Damascus power station on Wednesday, while two bombs exploded near the city center, ...
Bomb in Russia's Dagestan province kills 2
A bomb exploded Wednesday in a busy shopping area in the capital of Russia's restive republic of Dagestan, killing at least two people, police said.
Friends of bombing suspect in immigration court
Lawyers for two men friendly with the Boston Marathon bombing suspect say their clients have been extensively interviewed by federal investigators.
Tsarnaevs' father puts off plans to travel to US
The father of the Boston bombing suspects says he has indefinitely put off returning to the U.S. because he is too sick to make the trip from Russia.
Afghan peace council official killed in south
Insurgents ambushed an Afghan government peace negotiator on Wednesday, killing him and two bodyguards as they headed to a meeting in the south to ...