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A bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan has killed 35 and injured dozens in the worst sectarian attack in the country in months.
US Central Command commander General Kenneth McKenzie admits the United States made a "mistake" when it launched a drone strike against suspected Islamic State militants in the Afghan capital Kabul on August 29, confirming that it killed 10 civilians instead. "The strike was a tragic mistake," McKenzie tells reporters at a Pentagon briefing after an investigation. SOUNDBITE
At least four students were killed and dozens more wounded when a bomb exploded during a class at their religious school in northwestern Pakistan. IMAGES
Lawyers in Pakistan stage a nationwide strike to protest the deaths of their colleagues in Quetta, where a suicide bomber killed at least 74 people on Monday.
The alleged mastermind of the deadly attack on a Pakistan school in 2014 has reportedly been killed in an American drone strike. Yiming Woo reports.