A bomb has detonated in the Maiwand district of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, leaving five civilians, including three children, killed and another one injured, Jamal Nasir Barakzai, a spokesperson for the provincial police, told Sputnik on Thursday

At least five Taliban insurgents, including a commander who was among the prisoners released by official Kabul under the US-brokered deal, were killed in the course of clashes in the southern Zabul province, local police chief Hekmatullah Kochi said on Wednesday

The former Women team captain has expressed condolences with all the injured and families who lost their loved ones in the blast inside the seminary in Dir Colony, a suburban area of Peshawar.

A bomb blast in the Afghan district Lashkar Gah killed four policemen and a policeman's son, a police security source told Sputnik on Wednesday

A roadside bomb explosion in the King district of the Afghan province of Nimroz killed 12 policemen and injured one, Nimroz governor's spokesman Bahram Haqmal said Tuesday

A total of 13 people were killed and 53 others were injured as a result of a car bomb blast in Syria's northwestern province of Aleppo, a local source told Sputnik