Suicide bomb News

Reports say there were about 100 students in the classroom at the time of the attack. It has been estimated that the average age of the students was about 18.

The assaults underscore growing concerns about security in the lead-up to legislative elections scheduled for October 20, which are seen as a test-run for next year's presidential poll.

At least 50 people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bomb blast at a mosque in the northeastern town of Mubi, in Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria, police said.

The suicide bombers tried to storm the police command centre and clashed with guards before detonating their explosive devices outside

The UN children's fund said last month that 83 children had been used as suicide bombers this year, four times as many as in all of 2016.

At least 15 of the wounded were taken to city hospitals, said Ismail Kawosi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health.

The blast followed after a number of gunmen stormed a Shia mosque, Imam Zaman Mosque, during the Friday prayers in Qala-e-Najarha.

The suicide attacker with a car bomb struck in Lashkar Gah, capital of the southern province of Helmand.

IS has been expanding its footprint in eastern Afghanistan and has recently claimed responsibility for several devastating attacks in Kabul.

At least 62 people have been killed in attacks on Maiduguri and its environs since early June. Seventeen people were killed in the city last week.

At least four such attacks have targeted Iraqi forces as hundreds of civilians flee the fierce fighting in the Old City's congested streets.

A number of suicide bomb attacks by suspected members of the jihadist group have taken place in the capital of Borno state and its environs in the last few weeks.

Belgian authorities say police have detained four people in a series of raids in Brussels linked to the failed bombing at a rail station this week.

Indonesian police say they have arrested 41 suspected militants following last month's twin suicide bombings in the capital that killed three policemen.

Authorities in northern Cameroon say 11 people are dead after two suicide bombers attacked a camp for those displaced by Boko Haram extremist violence in the region. 

The Champions Trophy, which is being staged in London, Birmingham and Cardiff starts next Thursday with a match between England and Bangladesh at The Oval in south London.

A suicide bomber launched an attack outside a busy bus terminal in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Wednesday.

 The Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II says he will be canceling most Easter celebrations, limiting them to a simple mass, following the recent twin attacks on churches by Islamic State militants that killed dozens of Christian worshippers.

At least five persons were killed and three others wounded in a suicide bombing near the government office buildings in Kabul on Wednesday.

Four Pakistani soldiers were among six people killed and 18 injured in a targeted attack on army men escorting a census team by a young suicide bomber here, the latest in a series of bombings to hit the country.