The death toll from clashes between Islamists and police in Bangladesh has risen to 20 people, police said May 6, Reuters reported.

The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the May 6 suicide bombing at an election rally for members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam religious party, Reuters reported.

At least 15 people were killed in an explosion at an election rally in Pakistan's Kurram Agency on May 6, officials said, Reuters reported.

Clashes in Dhaka between Bangladeshi police and Islamist protesters under the banner of Hefazat-e-Islam left at least one person dead and dozens injured May 5, Xinhua reported.

A bomb killed five U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the U.S. Armed Forces said May 4, Reuters reported.

Sadiq Zaman Khattak, a parliamentary candidate for Pakistan's secular Awami National Party in upcoming elections, was shot and killed along with his three-year-old son in Karachi on May 3, a police spokesman said, AFP reported.

Eight Afghan policemen were killed May 2 when an improvised explosive device placed by Taliban fighters detonated alongside a road outside Kabul, officials said, AFP reported.