Sunday

May 15, 2016

Armed conflicts and attacks

War in Iraq (2013–2017)

Suicide bomb attacks in a state owned cooking gas plant in Taji, north of Baghdad, kill at least 18 people, while 11 others die in attacks across the country. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters via Daily Mail)

Yemeni civil war (2015–present)

A suicide bombing kills at least 30 and injures 70 others in the southern city of Mukalla, Yemen. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for attack. (Xinhua) (Reuters) (Canadian Press via Chronicle-Herald)[permanent dead link]

Disasters and accidents

A truck collides with a motorised rickshaw in the Adilabad district of India's Telangana state resulting in 16 deaths. (AP via Washington Post)