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Blast kills 15 civilians, injures 20 in Afghanistan: Interior Ministry

At least 15 civilians were killed and 20 more were wounded in an explosion in Afghanistan at a gathering in Gelan district, Ghazni Province, on Friday afternoon, said the Ministry of Interior Affairs.

Lebanon hires firm to clear dangerous material from shattered Beirut port

Lebanon’s authorities signed a contract this month with a German company to clear dangerous material stored for more than a decade at Beirut port, the site of a seismic blast in August that killed about 200 people and wrecked swathes of the capital.

Minister of culture, Tehran University president blast Kabul terrorist attack

Iran’s Minister of Culture and president of Tehran University condemned the deadly terrorist attack on Kabul University in separate messages on Tuesday.

Iranian envoy survives Kabul bomb blast

Iran’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Bahador Aminian has survived a bomb explosion in the capital city of Kabul where Afghan and Iranian officials were visiting an ongoing book exhibition on Monday.

Afghan VP wounded in deadly Kabul blast

Iran: Attack carried out by ‘enemies of peace’

Syria: ‘Terror blast’ causes temporary countrywide blackout

An explosion caused by a “terrorist attack” against a major gas pipeline in Syria has caused a temporary countrywide blackout.

Lebanese president calls probe into Beirut blast ‘complex’

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said the probe into a devastating blast in Beirut is “very complex” and won’t be finished quickly.

Iran hopes for stability in Lebanon after Beirut blast

Zarif: West shouldn't exploit explosion for political goals

Lebanese have little hope blast probe will lead to truth

Lebanon’s judicial investigation of the Beirut port explosion started with political wrangling over the naming of a lead investigator, military threats to jail leakers and doubts over whether a panel appointed along sectarian lines could be fully impartial.

Lebanon’s cabinet under pressure as ministers quit after Beirut blast

Iran says explosion should not be politicized

Lebanon information minister quits in first gov’t resignation after blast

Lebanon's Information Minister Manal Abdel-Samad on Sunday stepped down in the first government resignation since a deadly port blast killed at least 160 people and destroyed swathes of the capital.

Blast rocks military base in Somali capital, at least eight dead

A huge blast rocked a military base in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu near a stadium on Saturday, killing at least eight people and injuring 14, emergency workers said, and the terrorist group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility, Reuters reported.

Beirut port explosion death toll rises to 158: Ministry

Hezbollah 'categorically denies' storing arms at port

Lebanon's health minister: Many injuries, large damage from Beirut blast

Lebanon’s Health Minister Hamad Hasan said an explosion in central Beirut on Tuesday had caused a “very high number of injuries” and extensive damage, Lebanese LBC television channel quoted the minister as saying.

Factory blast kills one, injures 13 in SE Iran

Explosion of a factory reservoir near the southeastern city of Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi province left one dead and 13 wounded on August 3, a local medical emergency services official has said.