War-like situations behind spurt in suicide bombings?
NEW DELHI: Iraq and Afghanistan, the two countries that along with India are at the top of the list of victims, have witnessed much more frequent use of suicide bombings. Of course, that could be because both these countries are in war-like situations and are virtually military-run...

ISRAEL - Apr 20 - Israel Kills 7 Hamas Militants After Suicide Bombings.
Israel kill seven Hamas militants in a series of airstrikes after the group detonated three vehicles packed with hundreds of kilograms of explosives at an Israeli crossing on the Gaza border. Two of the militants were killed early Apr 20. Defense Minister Ehud Barak of Israel, visiting the area...

IRAQ - July 17 - A Flurry Of Suicide Bombings Shakes Iraq.
Another rash of suicide bombings sweep across Baghdad, killing at least eight people, as the number of casualties from a suicide attack July 16 night south of Baghdad that torched a Shiite mosque and a crowded open-air market climbed to 71 dead and 156 wounded. In the worst July...

Suicide bombings continue in Iraq.
Byline: AMMAR KARIM AL MUSSAYIB, Iraq (AFP, Reuters) The blitz of suicide bombings in Iraq showed no sign of abating Sunday after a bomber drove a tanker of liquified gas into a southern town killing at least 70 and wounding 95. It was the deadliest...

War in Gaza: Israeli-Palestinian conflict explodes in the Middle East.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The last time Abdel Hasan saw his 11-year-old daughter alive, she was running across a school yard in the Gaza Strip, a sliver of land between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea. It was January 6. Gaza, home to 1.5 million Palestinian Arabs. was being attacked...

Words in the news.
Below are some key words used in this issue of Current Events. Hamas (page 4) Palestinian militants created Hamas in the 1980s with the goal of establishing a Palestinian state in place of Israel Hamas stands for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Resistance Movement. It has...

Neo-Salafi Female Kills 40 Shi'ite Pilgrims.
A Neo-Salafi woman with a vest of explosives on Feb. 13 killed at least 40 Shi'ite pilgrims at a check-point on the road to the holy shrine of Imam Hussein bin-'Ali in Karbala' south of Baghdad. It was the deadliest Neo-Salafi attack in Iraq this year and marked the...

Safe refuge; Iraqis forge a new life in Worcester.
Byline: Thomas Caywood The following correction was published Feb. 12, 2009 in the Telegram O& Gazette. Charts in yesterday's Telegram & Gazette showed the total number of all refugees resettled in the United States and Massachusetts from 2003 to 2008. Because of a graphic artist's...

Hamas.
THE word 'Hamas' is spoken by foreign and local broadcast media more than a thousand times everyday, and printed on the pages of newspapers around the world in a little lesser number. By now Filipinos are already that familiar with the name. So, what is...

Rockets heart of Mideast war.
CAIRO, Egypt - Most of the Hamas rockets targeted at Israel are rudimentary, cobbled together in small metal shops in densely populated Gaza. But a growing number are more sophisticated, longer-range weapons, believed made from parts thought to originate in Syria or Iran and smuggled in through tunnels from...