Bombing

QUETTA, Pakistan -- A police official says a roadside bomb targeting paramilitary troops has killed two civilians in southwestern Pakistan.

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's Olympic athletes are training for the London Games, a day after the national Olympic committee president and another top sports official were killed in a bomb blast.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed at least 10 people, including three American soldiers, at a park in a relatively peaceful area of northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, part of an increase in violence at the start of the spring fighting season.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A Taliban suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a rival group Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing at least five fighters in the second such bombing this month, militants and a government official said.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A powerful roadside bomb incinerated a minivan in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province Wednesday, killing eight civilians on a day when U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta was paying an unannounced visit.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Six British troops were missing and presumed dead after a massive blast destroyed their tank-like armored vehicle in Helmand province, British and coalition military officials said Wednesday. It would be the largest loss of British military lives in a single incident in Afghanistan in nearly three years.

TAMPA, Fla. — The Kosovo-born American citizen accused of plotting bomb attacks around Tampa was a loner who had grown increasingly radical in his Muslim faith and publicly railed against Jews and Christians in videos he posted on the Internet, according to relatives and friends.