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Added on the 07/03/2016 09:22:10 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images show emergency workers and members of the public working through the rubble after a blast at a mosque inside a highly sensitive Pakistani police headquarters on Monday. The explosion killed 33 and wounded 150 more, with police officers counted among those dead. The incident has prompted the government to put the country on high alert. IMAGES
Images of the Taliban monitoring traffic at checkpoints Herat after a huge bomb blast at one of the biggest mosques in western Afghanistan killed at least 18 people, including an influential imam who earlier this year called for those who commit "the smallest act" against the government to be beheaded. IMAGES
At least two people were killed and five wounded in a bomb blast that hit a minibus in Kabul on Wednesday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital. The blast destroyed the vehicle in Dasht-e-Barchi, a Taliban official told AFP, in a suburb dominated by minority Hazara Shiites. An AFP staffer was near the scene when the bomb detonated. "I heard a huge explosion... when I looked around a minibus and a taxi were on fire," he said. IMAGES
Afghan Taliban security force rushes through traffic after explosions and gunfire were heard near a Kabul military hospital. Smoke seen rising in a distance. IMAGES
Police and emergency officials work near the wreck where a car bomb killed eight people near Somalia's presidential palace in Mogadishu on Saturday. Al-Shabaab jihadist group claimed responsibility for the attack. IMAGES