Offstream
news

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev agrees to change the name of Kazakhstan's capital from "Nur-Sultan" back to "Astana". He had previously changed the capital's name in 2019 to honor his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev.
2022-09-13

Suicide bombings in Afghanistan kill 48 people including civilians and soldiers. The first is in Charikar at a rally for Ashraf Ghani, the President of Afghanistan. The second is in Kabul near the U.S. embassy.
2019-09-17

Fifteen people are injured following a suicide bombing in Ansbach, Germany.
2016-07-24

Kazakh police kill five additional suspected militants in Aktobe as part of a "counterterrorism operation".
2016-06-10

Kazakhstan police report the death toll from Sunday's attack in Aktobe is now 19 — three civilians, three National Guard servicemen, and 13 attackers.
2016-06-7

Three people are killed and 10 more are injured following an attack on a military base in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, by suspected Islamists.
2016-06-5

Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar claims responsibility for two suicide bombing attacks that killed 30 people in Niger on May 23.
2013-05-25

A suicide bombing at a hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu where newly elected president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud was holding a news conference kills at least four people.
2012-09-12

Two Russian cosmonauts, Aleksandr Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka, and American astronaut Scott Kelly leave on mission Soyuz TMA-01M for the International Space Station from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome.
2010-10-8

The Kyzyl-Agash dam in Kazakhstan bursts, killing at least 35.([http:--www.google.com-hostednews-afp-article-ALeqM5h_voEzPqVAaGf-zOCXEZNGmRUKrA "AFP"])
2010-03-11