Bombing

Iraq at a crossroads over militias, as senior commander is killed in car bombing - analysis

A senior commander from Ansar Allah al-Awfiya, an Iran-aligned Iraqi armed faction, was killed and his aide seriously wounded on Thursday when an explosive device detonated in their vehicle.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Fighters of the Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (Loyal Supporters of God) Shiite group parade with their weapons on June 16, 2015 in the southern Iraqi city of Basra during celebrations.
People gather as they search for survivors after a blast near a railway track in Quetta, Pakistan, May 24, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone

Powerful bomb explodes near train in Pakistan's Quetta, killing at least 24

The attack, which killed at least 24 people and injured more than 70, was the latest in a series of major strikes on infrastructure in the Pakistani province that borders Iran and Afghanistan.

|ByREUTERS
Argentine prosecutor Viviana Fein arrives at the apartment where prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead, in Buenos Aires, Jan 19, 2015.

Argentine official who investigated death of AMIA prosecutor charged with covering up evidence

The death of Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the 1994 bombing on a Buenos Aires Jewish center, has roiled Argentine politics for a decade.

|ByJUAN MELAMED/JTA
A member of the security personnel arrives at the scene near a burning vehicle following an explosion in Damascus on May 19, 2026.

WATCH: Car bomb explodes near Defense Ministry building in Damascus

Syria’s health ministry said emergency and ambulance teams had responded to the explosion, which killed one soldier and wounded around 12 people.

|ByREUTERS

On This Day in 2004: Dozens of Israelis murdered in Beersheba terror bombing

This attack had the largest number of victims in the entire year of 2004 and has the largest number of victims in the south of the country to this day.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Scenes following the double suicide bombing, Beersheba, August 31, 2004

The Sbarro bombing mastermind is still free. Put her back in jail - opinion

Israel has already failed the Roth family; we cannot allow the US to do so as well. Ahlam Tamimi must be put back behind bars.

AUGUST 15, 2023ByZINA RAKHAMILOVA
ARNOLD ROTH holds a photo of Malki and her friends at a picnic in Jerusalem’s Old City during the final year of his daughter’s life, a photo he developed from a disposable camera that he discovered after her death.

Can the state be sued for a firebomb attack on a bus? High Court says no

"Questions of this kind are a matter for military investigation and are at the core of the military profession," High Court Justice Yizhak Amit noted.

AUGUST 10, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
‘WITHIN ANY arrangement in Israel it is critical to ensure that no one is forced to work on Shabbat, as in the case of bus drivers or construction workers.’

'Oppenheimer' and the story behind those who lost their land to the lab

In 1942, the US Army gave 32 Hispano families on the Pajarito Plateau 48 hours to leave their homes so they could build the lab for atomic bomb construction.

JULY 29, 2023ByREUTERS
The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, "Ivy Mike", as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952, by a member of the United States Air Force's Lookout Mountain.

Tiny Pacific island Nauru declares disaster ahead of WW2 bomb operation

The unexploded bomb was discovered by construction workers working on utilities groundworks on July 7.

JULY 19, 2023ByREUTERS
People rest in a shelter during evacuation before the detonation of a World War II bomb that was found on the factory site of German industrial giant Heraeus in Hanau, Germany, March 1, 2023.

Ukraine receives cluster munitions - military spokesperson

Cluster munitions are "in the hands of our defense forces," a Ukrainian military spokesman told Ukrainian television.

JULY 13, 2023ByREUTERS
A close-up view of two CBU-58 cluster bombs on an F-4G Wild Weasel Phantom II aircraft from the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing.

Convicted 'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski dead at 81

Ted Kaczynski, who was convicted of killing three people and wounding more than 20 others as the "Unabomber," died in a North Carolina federal prison on Saturday.

JUNE 10, 2023ByREUTERS
Ted Kaczynski poses in his booking mugshot from April 1996. The FBI is asking for DNA samples from "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski in connection with unsolved 1982 murders involving Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide, FBI officials said on May 19, 2011.

Israeli forces demolish Ramallah home of Jerusalem bomber

Israeli media, citing Palestinian reports, stated that a Palestinian photojournalist was seriously injured by IDF fire during the night's clashes. 

JUNE 8, 2023ByTZVI JOFFRE
Israeli forces entered Ramallah on June 7, 2023 and demolished the home of the terrorist behind the November Jerusalem bus stop bombings.

Russian governor says two dead after Ukraine shelled town near border

Russian officials have in recent days reported intensified attacks from northern Ukraine.

JUNE 2, 2023ByREUTERS
A view shows damaged buildings, after anti-terrorism measures introduced for the reason of a cross-border incursion from Ukraine were lifted, in what was said to be a settlement in the Belgorod region, in this handout image released May 23, 2023.

WWII unexploded bomb found in Polish city, 2,500 residents evacuated

The bomb weighed 550 pounds and was a German SC-250 aerial bomb.

MAY 26, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An aerial view of the Wroclaw City Hall and the old town of Wroclaw, Poland February 12, 2022.