A Taliban suicide attack in a busy area near the defence ministry in Kabul on Monday killed at least 24 people and wounded 91, the deadliest toll in the Afghan capital in weeks.
Five attackers armed with suicide vests, rifles and grenades killed 18 people in the Iraqi oasis town of Ain al-Tamer, near Karbala, local officials said Monday.
At least 13 people were killed on Tuesday in twin bombings near UN and African Union buildings adjoining Mogadishu's airport, police said, in what the jihadist Shabaab group claimed as a suicide attack.
Members of Afghanistan's Hazara minority began the task of burying more than 80 people killed in Saturday's suicide attack in Kabul with many blaming political leaders for security failures that led to the massacre.
Turkish police on Thursday arrested 12 suspects as they stepped up efforts to identify a female bomber who blew herself up in the city of Bursa, wounding 13 people, state media said.
A suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least eight people at a Shia mosque on the southwestern edge of Baghdad on Friday, security and medical officials said.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani vowed to avenge "every drop of blood" from this week's suicide attack in Kabul, as officials more than doubled the death toll to 64.
Three suicide bombers blew themselves up on Monday as they tried to storm a rural police station in a usually peaceful region of southern Russia, causing no other casualties, police said.
Iraq on Saturday buried the victims, among them many young boys, of a suicide attack that ripped through a trophy ceremony after a football tournament and killed 32 people.
Four worshipers were killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque in northern Cameroon on Monday, a security source said, five days after a similar attack left 12 people dead.
A Taliban suicide car bomber hit a French restaurant popular with foreigners in Kabul on Friday, in a New Year's Day attack that marks the latest in a series of brazen insurgent assaults.
