The head of the IRA has given permission for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombers to be named at an inquest, jurors have been told.

India's prime minister has warned of a "crushing response" to the suicide bombing of a paramilitary convoy in Indian-controlled Kashmir which killed 41 people and was the deadliest in the divided region's volatile history.

Heart breaking footage has emerged of a young boy clinging to his dead father following the Saudi bombing of a wedding in the northern region of Yemen yesterday.

Politicians have swept the victims' issue under the carpet, a teacher whose husband was badly injured in an IRA bombing said.

A teenage asylum seeker told British authorities he had been trained by Islamic State "to kill" before he allegedly planted a bomb on the Tube at Parsons Green in England, a court has heard.

World leaders and aid groups are calling for an end to the Syrian government's bombing of opposition-held eastern suburbs of Damascus that has left hundreds of people dead in recent days.

Latest: A suicide bomber driving an ambulance has killed at least 95 people and wounded 151 more in an attack claimed by the Taliban in the Afghan capital Kabul, authorities said.

The final death toll in October's massive truck bombing in Somalia's capital is 512 people, according to the committee tasked with looking into the country's worst-ever attack.

A new memorial to the victims of the Enniskillen bombing is to be unveiled on Sunday at a ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the IRA attack in which 11 people were slaughtered.

The man who found the Boston marathon bomber hiding in his boat in his backyard has died.

A seventh person has been arrested in connection with the Parsons Green bombing, Scotland Yard said.

Relatives of Omagh bomb victims are to sue Northern Ireland's police chief for investigative failings they believe let the killers escape justice.

Twin bombings minutes apart have hit a crowded market in Pakistan's north-western tribal region, killing at least 15 people and wounding 70, a government official said.

Keane revealed his reservations about how much football can hope to achieve in the face of such horror.

Manchester bomber Salman Abedi phoned his mother and said “forgive me” hours before the attack which killed 22 people, according to Libyan security forces.

Another victim of the Manchester Arena bombing has been named as Eilidh MacLeod.

A NATION’s strength lies not in its armed forces but in the capacity of its citizens to overcome the horror of barbaric acts through togetherness, compassion and even humour.

It comes after team-mate Yaya Toure and his agent pledged to donate £100,000 to help the victims.

A touching offer for an unassuming hero.

We cannot address the physical impact of such an act of terror but we can manage the psychological impacts, writes Paul Gilligan.

In relation to Ireland, the threat level from international terrorism is constantly under review and that remains the case after the Manchester bombing, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

ANYONE on this island who reacted with outrage, frustration, incomprehension, or something pretty close to a numbing sadness to the murder of 22 young people at a concert in Manchester must temper that reaction.

Eight suspected members of terrorist cells have been arrested in connection with last week's deadly bombing on the subway in St Petersburg, Russia's intelligence chief has said.

The Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility for the violence.

The past can reintroduce itself sometimes in the most unexpected ways.

Latest: An Islamic State suicide bomber has targeted worshippers at a famous shrine in southern Pakistan, killing at least 75 people and wounding more than 200 others, officials said.

The Syrian government's capture of eastern Aleppo, held for more than four years by rebels, marks a horrific new chapter for the country's largest city.

The remaining doctors in the square mile of eastern Aleppo under attack are "terrified" of possible retaliation from pro-government forces and want to be evacuated, Doctors Without Borders says.

IN June 1944, the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was razed and 642 of its residents, women and children included, were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company. 

Peter Apps looks at the complexities of the conflict in Syria and says that while blaming Vladimir Putin is easy, the US and the UK must also take responsibility.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Cairo church two days earlier that killed 25 people, highlighting a new escalation of violence in Egypt against civilians and Christians in particular.

Twenty-five people have been killed and 49 wounded in a bombing at a chapel next to Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral during Sunday mass, according to Egyptian state television.

Conditions in Syrian rebel-held eastern Aleppo have gone "from terrible to terrifying and now barely survivable", the UN's humanitarian chief said.

Airstrikes have pounded rebel-held eastern Aleppo, killing more than 20 people on the third day of a renewed air campaign there, Syrian activists and rescue workers said.

Iraq's special forces worked to clear neighbourhoods on the eastern edge of Islamic State-held Mosul as at least 20 people were killed elsewhere in bombings carried out by the group.

A 10-hour ceasefire in Syria to allow people to leave the besieged districts of Aleppo has ended.

Doctors Without Borders have pleaded for access to treat the wounded in the rebel-held part of Aleppo, as Syrian government forces pressed ahead with an offensive that has killed hundreds of people in recent weeks.

An intense bombing campaign has targeted several areas in the rebel-held part of Aleppo city, just hours after the US and Russia ended any pretence of their ceasefire for Syria remaining in force.

Two small bombs have exploded in the popular seaside resort town of Hua Hin in Thailand, killing at least one person and injuring 20 others, according to Thai media.

A suicide bombing outside one of Islam's holiest sites killed four Saudi security officers and wounded five others.

Irish theatre company ANU bring their show about the Manchester bombing to the city where it happened, writes Padraic Killeen

At least 27 people have been killed and dozens injured in two suicide car bombings in Iraq.

Twelve people have been arrested by authorities in Turkey over a suicide bomb attack in which 13 people were injured, the state-run news agency said.

A convicted dissident republican who had been accused of murdering 29 people in the Omagh bomb attack has walked free from prison after the prosecution dramatically collapsed.

At least 38 people have been killed by an Islamic State suicide bombing at an Iraqi funeral.

France’s gentle healing process took another step forward tonight as its greatest landmark, the Eiffel Tower, returned to action with a patriotic twist.

At least 43 people were killed and more than 240 wounded yesterday in two suicide bomb blasts claimed by Islamic State in a crowded residential district in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah.

Relatives of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing 27 years ago have welcomed the identification of two Libyans as suspects in the investigation.