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Latest News
- Pakistan: Remote-controlled bomb blast in DI Khan kills two security personnel, injures six
February 17, 2025
A remote-controlled bomb blast in Tehsil Kulachi claimed the lives of two security personnel and left six others injured on Bypass Road near Loni Bridge. According to sources, the security forces’ ...
- India: CRPF CoBRA personnel injured in IED blast by Maoists in Bijapur district
February 16, 2025
A personnel of the CRPF’s CoBRA unit was injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Maoists went off in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Saturday. The blast occurred ...
- Pakistan: IED defused near mosque adjacent to police station in Bannu
February 16, 2025
A locally made improvised explosive device (IED) was recovered from near a mosque on the premises of Ghoriwala Police Station here on Saturday. The timely intervention by the Bomb Disposal Unit ...
- Ukraine: Three Mine Action Center personnel killed in Mykolaiv terrorist attack
February 16, 2025
On February 14, a terrorist attack in Mykolaiv claimed the lives of three service members from the Mine Action Center — Vadym Yelisieiev, Olena Kliuchnikova, and Yevhenii Siryk. The Mine ...
- Pakistan: Soldier killed in terror attack on checkpost in Balochistan’s Kalat
February 16, 2025
A levies soldier embraced martyrdom while two others were injured after terrorists attacked a security checkpost in Balochistan’s Kalat district on Sunday. The terrorists fled the scene after retaliatory fire from ...
- Lebanese authorities arrest 25 after attack on UN peacekeepers
February 15, 2025
Lebanese authorities arrested more than 25 people on Saturday following an attack on a United Nations convoy that wounded two peacekeepers the day before, the interior minister said in a ...
- Austria: Man stabs 5 people in Villach killing 14-year-old in what police describe as a random attack
February 15, 2025
A 23-year-old man stabbed five passersby in southern Austria on Saturday in what police said was a random attack that left a 14-year-old dead and four others injured. The suspect was ...
- Spain: Authorities arrest fugitive responsible for 2017 bomb explosion in Florence
February 15, 2025
The anarchist Salvatore Vespertino, a fugitive since July 2023 who had been missing since February of the same year, was captured tonight in the Spanish city of Vallecas (Madrid). The anarchist, ...
- Israel: Hamas stages propaganda event as 3 hostages released in Gaza
February 15, 2025
The sixth round of the hostage release deal is underway, with Sagui Dekel-Chen, Iair Horn and Alexander “Sasha” Troufanov set to be handed over by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad ...
- Ukraine’s minefields must be a priority at Munich meeting
February 15, 2025
Clearing the deadly debris of war should be a key goal of delegates at the Munich Security Conference, the head of the world’s largest landmine clearance charity, The HALO Trust, ...
- Pakistan: At least 10 dead, 6 injured as blast in Harnai targets pickup truck carrying mine workers
February 14, 2025
At least 10 people were killed and six others were injured when an explosion hit a pickup truck carrying coal mine workers in Balochistan’s Harnai area on Friday, officials said. According ...
- Azerbaijan: Truck hits landmine in Aghdam
February 14, 2025
A truck struck a landmine in the liberated village of Bash Garvand, Agdam, causing serious damage to the vehicle, Azernews reports. The HOVA truck, which was operating in the area, was ...
- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 275
February 14, 2025
A drone attack early this morning caused a fire on the building confining the remains of the reactor destroyed in the 1986 Chornobyl accident, a deeply concerning incident that underlines ...
- Cambodia: CMAC team discovers war-left U.S. aerial bomb MK-82 in Kandal province
February 13, 2025
An expert team of the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) has found and safely removed a war-left U.S.-made MK-82 aerial bomb in southern Kandal province, a mine clearance chief said ...
- Solomon Islands Police Force EOD Team ends operation in Western Province
February 13, 2025
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Department (EODD) team has successfully concluded a significant operation on Shortland Islands in the Western Province (WP) recently. Supervising Director of ...
- France: Two people fight for life and 10 more injured after man throws grenade into Grenoble bar
February 13, 2025
Two people fighting for their lives are among the at least 12 who were injured after a grenade was thrown into a packed bar by a man brandishing a Kalashnikov ...
- Germany: At least 20 injured after car drives into crowd in Munich
February 13, 2025
A car plowed into a group of demonstrators in Munich on Thursday injuring at least 20 people, police said, hours before world leaders were set to descend on the southern ...
- Libyan state minister survives assassination attempt in Tripoli
February 12, 2025
A Libyan state minister survived an assassination attempt when gunmen opened fire on his car in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, a government statement said. The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity ...
- UK to allocate US$5.5 bn in military aid to Ukraine this year
February 12, 2025
UK Defence Secretary John Healey has announced that Britain will provide £4.5 billion (approx. US$5.5 billion) in military aid to Ukraine in 2025. Healey at a Ramstein-format meeting on Wednesday, 12 ...