Boston marathon bombing
John Tlumacki/Boston Globe/AP Bill Iffrig, 78, lies on the ground as police officers react to a second explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15 2013. Mr Iffrig, of Lake Stevens,...
View ArticleMiller the transit police dog, Boston
Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters Miller, a Transit Police dog, watches commuters at Back Bay Station a day after two explosions in Boston. Miller, a Transit Police dog with the Massachusetts Transportation...
View ArticleObama heads to Boston
Jewel Samad/AFP President Barack Obama heads to Boston to mourn victims of the Boston Marathon attacks. No arrests have been made in connection with Monday’s twin bombings near the finish line of the...
View ArticleWatertown shooting
Mario Tama/Getty Police with guns drawn on Friday search for a suspect in Watertown, Massachusetts. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer was shot and killed late on Thursday...
View ArticleBoston memorial
Steven Senne/AP Holly Holland hugs her daughter Katie, both of St. Louis, while visiting a makeshift memorial in Boston, on Monday. The memorial sits on Boylston Street, not far from where two bombs...
View ArticleBomb attack in Pakistan
Banaras Khanbanaras/AFP Pakistani security officials are pictured at the site of a bomb attack on a vehicle used by security forces on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan...
View ArticleSecuring Kabul
Shah Marai/AFP Afghan security forces stand guard at the site of a suicide attack near the Kabul military airport on Monday. All seven militants who launched the attack died in the assault, Afghan...
View ArticleBomb blast in Beirut
AFP A firefighter is helped as he extinguishes a fire at the site of an explosion in Beirut’s southern suburb of Bir al-Abed on Tuesday. A car bomb rocked the suburbs, a stronghold of Lebanon’s Shia...
View ArticleRemembering Hiroshima
Kimimasa Mayama/EPA People offer prayer for atomic bomb victims at a cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan on Tuesday after the Peace Memorial Ceremony commemorating...
View ArticleTripoli bomb blast
Omar Ibrahim/Reuters People run to help outside one of two mosques hit by explosions in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli. At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in two explosions...
View ArticlePakistani Christians condemn attack on church
K.M. Chaudary/AP Pakistani Christian protesters chant slogans to condemn a Peshawar suicide attack on a church in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistani Christians denounced the attack against members of their...
View ArticleDeadly blast in Beirut
Hasan Shaaban/Reuters Soldiers, policemen and medical personnel gather at the site of explosions near the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed at least 20 people and injured more than 95 on...
View ArticleShelling in Syria
Saad Abobrahim/Reuters Residents carry an injured man that survived shelling after what activists said was an air strike from forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in the Takeek Al-Bab area...
View ArticleLebanon bomb blast
Hussein Malla/AP Lebanese men carry a wounded man at the site of an explosion, near the Kuwaiti Embassy and Iran’s cultural centre, in the suburb of Beir Hassan, Beirut, Lebanon. A blast in a Shia...
View ArticleCandles of remembrance
Noah Saleem/AFP Indians light candles to commemorate the first anniversary of the 2013 bomb blasts in Hyderabad.
View ArticleMadrid remembers 2004 bombing
Philippe Marcou/AFP People look at the Atocha railway station memorial for the victims of the Madrid train bombings, marking the tenth anniversary of the attack that claimed 191 lives and injured more...
View ArticleGirl is rescued after barrel bombing in Aleppo
Khaled Khatib/AFP A Syrian man evacuates a child found in the rubble of a building reportedly hit by an explosives-filled barrel dropped by a government forces helicopter in Aleppo. Iran’s foreign...
View ArticleIslamabad bomb attack
Sohail Shahzad/EPA People comfort a relative of one of the victims of a bomb blast in Islamabad, Pakistan. At least 23 people were killed when a bomb ripped through a crowded market in Islamabad on...
View ArticleAthens car bomb
Yannis Kolesidis/EPA Police bomb-disposal experts gather evidence at the site of an explosion in the centre of Athens, on Thursday
View ArticleBig bang Leipzig
Jan Woitas/EPA An aerial bomb explodes near railway lines in Leipzig, Germany. A bomb disposal team detonated the American aircraft device after it was discovered during construction works
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