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Islamabad, Pakistan CNN  —  The suicide bomber who targeted a mosque inside a police compound in Peshawar, killing more than 80 people, was a member of the Pakistani Taliban disguised as a policeman, a senior official said Thursday. CCTV footage shows the suspected bomber arriving at a police checkpoint on …

An Indonesian bomb maker convicted for his role in the deadly 2002 Bali nightclub attacks has apologized to the victims’ families, after his release from prison was met with outrage in Australia. Umar Patek, a member of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group, was jailed for 20 years in 2012 …

Salah Abdeslam, the only suicide bomber to survive the worst terrorist attack in the history of France has married in prison.   The 33-year-old inmate reportedly took part in the ceremony over the phone from his high-security cell at the city’s Fleury-Mérogis prison, where he is serving multiple life sentences related to the ISIS attack on Paris …