At least 10 people were killed and 15 more were wounded this morning in an attack on Sultanahmet, the historic central district of Istanbul, Turkey. According to Turkish officials, a Syrian suicide bomber who may have been affiliated with ISIS or Kurdish separatists was behind the attack.
Witnesses say a double suicide bomb attack killed dozens inside a mosque in Maiduguri, reports The Guardian. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but the report mentions that Boko Haram recently claimed responsibility for suicide attacks that killed 18 and injured another 41 outside Abuja.
Police and government officers report a suicide bomber detonated explosives in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, near the country's border with India. At least 54 were killed.
Perhaps it was really a lesson on Beckett-like absurdism in our modern political culture. Perhaps it was just a moronic dipshit with 1.5 brain cells and a Radio Shack catalog. Whatever the explanation, the accidental boom in a suicide-bombing class made for good copy in today's Times:
A brave teen is being credited with saving the lives of many this week when he threw himself on the a suicide bomber who was about to detonate inside his school.
Suicide bombers just attacked the Indian consulate in Afghanistan. Twenty-three people were injured and nine children died in the blast. Yesterday the State Department issued a travel alert and announced that 22 US embassies would be closed on Sunday due to fear of an al Qaeda attack.
A suicide bomber struck inside the American embassy in Ankara, the Turkish capital, on Friday, killing a Turkish embassy worker and the suicide bomber. According to investigators, the bomber panicked at the security checkpoint and detonated the bomb early.
