One of the attackers at Istanbul's Ataturk airport blew himself up outside, giving the other two the opportunity to get inside the terminal, Turkey's prime minister has said.

A Belgian parliamentary commission scrutinising the March suicide bombings in Brussels and the official response is hearing about numerous communications glitches and the intense confusion sparked by unfounded rumours.

A Taliban suicide bomb and gun assault on a government security building during morning rush hour in central Kabul killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, in the most deadly single attack in the Afghan capital since 2011.

Suicide bombers hit a religious building and a military checkpoint in a Shiite-majority neighbourhood of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 15 people, an Iraqi security official said.

A suicide bomber who targeted a police checkpoint in north-western Pakistan has killed 11 people.

Turkish police have arrested one person suspected of having a direct link to the deadly suicide bombing that killed 10 German people in Istanbul’s main tourist area.

A suspected suicide bomb attack on a polio vaccination centre in south-west Pakistan has killed 14 people.

An Islamic State suicide bomber has detonated a bomb in a historic district of Istanbul popular with tourists, killing 10 people – at least nine of them German - and wounding 15 others, Turkish officials said.

Six foreign soldiers were killed in a suicide attack near the US-run Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, said Nato.

An explosion today at a busy roundabout near the entrance to Kabul’s international airport that wounded at least seven people appears to have been caused by a suicide car bomb, officials said.