SRI LANKA

With more than 4,000 deaths in 2007, Sri Lanka too, continues to be one of the most violent conflict zones in the world.

January 16: At Buttala, a civilian bus was bombed, and the fleeing passengers were gunned down, killing at least 30 people. The Sri Lankan government claimed that the gunman belonged to LTTE.

February 3: Suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew herself up outside a train at the main railway station in Colombo, killing 12. The bombing of a commuter bus in a suburb of Colombo killed 26 and injured at least 64 on April 25.

May 26: A time bomb exploded on a packed commuter train carrying 200 passenger onboard at Dehiwela railroad station, blamed on LTTE. Eight killed.

June 16: Explosives detonated in front of a police station in Vavuniya, killing 12.

IRAN

On April 12, at Shiraz in Iran, a bomb exploded, killing 13 people, inside the Shohada Hosseiniyeh mosque at around 9 p.m. during a sermon by a cleric well-known for criticism of Wahhabism and Bahaii. Tehran blamed Western-backed monarchists for the attack.

YEMEN

In Sa'dah Governorate, 15 killed and 55 injured in a bombing at the Ben Salman mosque .

IRAQ

219 American soldiers were killed in hostile encounters in 2008, 4124 soldiers having died since the war began. 86,425 to 94,290 Iraqi civilians killed since beginning of Operation Iraqi freedom, according to iraqbodycount.org

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