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USCG Peshawar: Suicide Car Bomb Targets Consulate Car, Wounds Four Staff and...
The AP is reporting that a suicide car bomb hit an armored SUV of the US Consulate General in Peshawar. The attack reportedly killed two Pakistanis and wounded 19 other people, including two American...
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Photo of the Day: Ragaei Abdelfattah, Coming Home
We posted this last month: US Mission Afghanistan: USAID Officer Ragaei Abdelfattah, Four Others Killed, Two Wounded in Suicide Attack in Kunar. We just found this photo today: The two men in black...
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El Snarkistani: 5 Things You Should Know About Dead Kids in Kabul
El Snarkistani of It’s Always Sunny in Kabul was gone for a couple of weeks of R&R. We miss him when he’s gone and we’re always happy to see him return to his blog. But then he blogs about the …...
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US Mission Afghanistan: USAID Sub-Contractors Killed in Kabul Suicide Attack
WaPo reports that today’s attack in Kabul was carried out by a suicide bomber who rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the Kabul International...
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US Embassy Turkey: Suicide Bomber Kills Local Guard Mustafa Akarsu, Wounds One
The US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey confirmed that at approximately 13:15 on February 1, there was an explosion at the embassy. It also says that “Appropriate measures have been taken by the Turkish...
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US Embassy Turkey: Mourning Mustafa Akarsu
The following is an excerpt from Ambassador Frank Ricciardone on the passing of local guard, Mustafa Akarsu who was killed last week in the suicide bombing at the US Embassy in Ankara: We lost a brave...
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In the Foreign Service: Death, Too Close An Acquaintance
This past week saw the death of a member of a local guard force at the US Embassy in Ankara. Nomads By Nature who blogs from Ankara writes that the guard who died when the suicide bomber detonated the...
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DS Agent David Root Starts Fund for Mustafa Akarsu’s Family, Guard Killed in...
We’ve blogged recently about the passing of Mustafa Akarsu, the local guard at the US Embassy in Ankara who was killed in the suicide attack last February 1 (see US Embassy Turkey: Suicide Bomber...
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Tom and Mary Beth Smedinghoff’s Statement on Daughter Anne Killed in Afghanistan
Via WaPo’s Ernesto Londoño: The American diplomat killed Saturday was identified as Anne Smedinghoff by her parents. Smedinghoff was recently tasked with assisting Secretary of State John F. Kerry on...
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US Embassy Beirut Marks 30th Anniversary of Embassy Bombing in Ain El Mraise
Today, the US Embassy in Lebanon gathered at the Embassy in Awkar to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Embassy bombing in Ain El Mraiseh on April 18, 1983. The incident’s entry in Wikipedia says...
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Please Ask Congress to Support the Mustafa Akarsu Local Guard Force Support Act
– Domani Spero On February 1, 2012, the United States Embassy in Ankara, Turkey was attacked by a suicide bomber. The attacker was reportedly carrying a handgun, a hand grenade, and 6 kilograms of...
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Bomb Explodes Outside US Consulate Erbil in Northern Iraq, ISIS Claims Attack...
Posted: 9:24 am PDT Updated: 10:41 am PDT Media reports say that a car bomb went off at 5:40 pm local time in front of the U.S. Consulate General in Irbil, in northern Iraq today. An unnamed senior...
View ArticleSuicide Attack With an Explosive Device at U.S. Embassy Podgorica #Montenegro
Posted: 2:37 am ET Updated: Feb 28, 11:20 pm PT Follow @Diplopundit The Serbian suicide bomber who attacked the U.S. embassy in Montenegro fought under an accused war criminal https://t.co/32NOoWtVLP...
View ArticleSuicide Bomber/s Target US Embassy Tunisia, Two Militants, One Policeman...
On March 6, 2020, suicide bomber or bombers reportedly on a motorbike blew themselves up outside the US Embassy in Tunisia. The Embassy issued a security alert noting the closure of its public...
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