
President Joko Widodo urged calm and ordered police to quickly arrest others that may have been connected to the suicide...

A Saudi security official said an attacker parked a car near the U.S. consulate in Jeddah before detonating the device....

Citizens from China, Jordan, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Iran and Ukraine were also among the 13 foreigners killed.

The double bombing came less than two weeks after gunmen attacked the American University in Kabul, killing 13 people.


Islamic State has been blamed for other similar attacks in Turkey, often targeting Kurdish gatherings in an effort to inflame ethnic...




The death toll expected to rise because of the number of people seriously injured, the Observatory said.

"We still have charred bodies inside many vehicles including a minibus packed with women and children."

The Taliban, a fierce enemy of Islamic State, had issued a statement denying any involvement

"It is an attack on the religion itself."

The latest 17 to be held were accused of "membership of an armed terrorist organization
