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Latest News
- Syria: ISIS attack on Hasaka prison must be thoroughly investigated – Coalition
January 26, 2022
The US-led global coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) said on Wednesday that the circumstances that led to last week’s major attack by ISIS on Ghweran prison in Hasaka, northeast ...
- Afghanistan: Norwegian charities pledge humanitarian assistance during IEA’s visit to Oslo
January 26, 2022
Representatives of Norwegian charities and organizations met with acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, during his three-day visit to Oslo, and pledged assistance to Afghanistan in various fields, including health ...
- Canada extends military operation in Ukraine for three years
January 26, 2022
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday the extension of Operation UNIFIER for three years, and the deployment of 60 more troops to Ukraine in the coming days. Trudeau made the ...
- UK: Unearthed ‘WW2 bomb’ detonated in controlled explosion in West London
January 26, 2022
Police conducted a controlled explosion of a ‘WW2 bomb’ in Ealing this afternoon (January 26). Police were called at 3pm to Hanger Lane to reports of a “suspected unexploded ordnance”. Road closures ...
- Winter 2021/22 edition of the Counter-IED Report magazine is now available to read online and in print
January 26, 2022
We are pleased to inform you that Winter 2021/22 edition of the Counter-IED Report is now available to read online and in print. Articles, insights and in-depth analysis from Geneva International ...
- Israel: Car bomb explosion in Rehovot, multiple injuries suspected
January 25, 2022
A car bomb explosion in Rehovot has left a mother and her toddler in moderate condition early Tuesday morning. The explosion occurred on Carmel Street with multiple suspected injuries. An MDA ...
- Electric grid is ‘attractive target’ for domestic violent extremists in US, intel brief says
January 25, 2022
Domestic violent extremists will “likely continue” to plot and encourage physical attacks against electrical infrastructure in the United States, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security intelligence briefing obtained ...
- Jammu and Kashmir: 1.3 Kilo commercial grade explosives recovered in Kishtwar
January 25, 2022
A tragedy ahead of Republic Day which could have been deadly was averted today by the security forces when the security forces based on input got their hands on over ...
- Australia: Former soldier wearing an explosive vest killed after it detonated in Melbourne’s south-east
January 24, 2022
A father has died after a homemade explosive device detonated inside his car as he was driving along Young Road in the southeast Melbourne suburb of Hallam. It’s understood the man ...
- Iraq: Roadside bomb blast kills three soldiers, injures one in Kirkuk city
January 24, 2022
Three Iraqi soldiers were killed on Monday morning in bomb blast targeting their patrol on a road in Kirkuk city, north of the capital Baghdad, a military source said. A fourth ...
- Cambodia: Mekong UXO search off until waters recede in Kandal and Preveng provinces
January 24, 2022
Officials have requested modern technological equipment to enable them to continue their work of collecting unexploded ordnance (UXO) in sunken warships in the Mekong River in four areas of Kandal ...
- Russia: Djibouti military will be trained in Russia to use Uran-6 mechanical mine clearance system
January 24, 2022
Military personnel from Djibouti will be trained at the International Mine Action Center of the Russian Armed Forces in Nakhabino near Moscow, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of ...
- Cambodia: CMAC discusses training for deminers with Colombian Ambassador
January 23, 2022
Cambodia Mine Action Centre (CMAC) director-general Heng Ratana had a meeting with Colombian Ambassador Ana Maria Prieto Abad to discuss training demining experts on Friday at CMAC’s office. Ratana said that ...
- Afghanistan: Islamic State claims responsibility for attack in Herat
January 23, 2022
Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Saturday in the western Afghan city of Herat, it said in a post on Telegram on Sunday. At least six people were ...
- Gulf of Oman: US Navy detains smuggling ship carrying urea fertilizer
January 23, 2022
The U.S. Navy announced Sunday it seized a boat in the Gulf of Oman carrying fertilizer used to make explosives that was caught last year smuggling weapons to Yemen. The ...
- NSG chief: Weaponised drones will be next-gen terror tactics
January 23, 2022
In the run up to the assembly polls in five states, the National Security Guard (NSG) has defused several improvised explosive devices (IEDs). While a court complex in Ludhiana witnessed ...
- ISIS tries to revive through jailbreak attempts in Syria’s Hasakah and Diyala governorate in Iraq
January 22, 2022
Clashes are still going on for the second consecutive day between the fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) ...
- Somali Journalist-Turned-Politician Survives Fifth Suicide Attack
January 22, 2022
By all odds, Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu should not be alive to tell his story. Five times, this Somali journalist-turned-government spokesperson has been nearby when a suicide bomber set off explosives. The ...
- Western Australia: Queens Park man to face court accused of detonating makeshift explosive in Leederville
January 21, 2022
Police have charged a 29-year-old man they say detonated a homemade bomb near two busy Leederville restaurants just hours before he allegedly sparked another scare with a second crude explosive ...
- Ghana: Massive explosion rocks town of Appiatse in Western Region
January 20, 2022
The Ghana Police Service announced that the explosion took place around 3 p.m. local time in the town of Appiatse, between Bogoso and Bawdie. Buildings and structures were gutted, and ...
- Philippines: NPA anti-personnel mines recovered in Eastern Samar
January 20, 2022
Police recovered on Jan. 19 four anti-personnel mines (APMs) in the mountains of Giporlos, Eastern Samar, stalling possible terrorist attacks by the New People’s Army (NPA). Joint operatives from the Eastern ...
- Syria: Islamic State set off a car bomb in attempted prison break in al-Hasakah Governorate
January 20, 2022
Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria on Thursday said they thwarted a prison break at a detention center holding Islamic State (IS) militants. A spokesperson for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ...
- Colombia: Car Bomb in Saravena Kills One
January 20, 2022
A car bomb killed one person and wounded five in an eastern Colombian city where illegal armed groups are vying for territorial control, the military said on Thursday. The car bomb ...
- Florida: Man gets 15 years in prison for posting bomb instructions
January 20, 2022
A South Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for posting bomb-making instructions on the internet for people who he believed were Islamic terrorists. Samuel Baptiste, 29, was ...
- Pakistan: At least 3 killed, over 20 injured after a blast in Pakistan’s Lahore
January 20, 2022
At least three people have been killed and over 20 have been injured after a blast in Lahore’s Lohari Gate area. DIG Operations Lahore Dr Muhammad Abid Khan while speaking ...
- Burkina Faso: Four French soldiers injured in bomb blast in Yatenga Province
January 19, 2022
Four French soldiers were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Burkina Faso, France’s military told AFP Tuesday evening. “(Their) off-road vehicle activated an IED as it left Ouahigouya ...
- Israel: Man seriously injured in car explosion in Ness Ziona
January 19, 2022
A man was seriously injured on Wednesday when the car he was in exploded in the northern town of Ness Ziona. The explosion happened as the car was stopped at a ...
- Thailand: Police pickup damaged by bomb in Narathiwat Province
January 19, 2022
A police pickup was slightly damaged by the explosion of an improvised bomb in Chanae district on Tuesday, police said. There were no injuries. Pol Capt Yuthachai Rojsirimontree, a Chanae investigator, ...
- UK: Controlled explosion after grenade found in River Cam
January 19, 2022
Bomb disposal experts have carried out a controlled explosion after a grenade was found in a city’s river. A man found the device while magnet fishing in the River Cam near ...
- NP Aerospace Backs $3.2m Canadian University Armour Development Program
January 19, 2022
Press Release NP Aerospace is confirmed as one of the main industry partners leading the NSERC* Alliance Program to research and develop new Canadian-made ceramic add-on vehicle armour. The 5-year, $3.2m+ program ...
- UK: 35-year-old man convicted of terrorist offence after improvised explosive device left in Princes Street Gardens
January 19, 2022
Police Scotland has welcomed the conviction of Nikolaos Karvounakis – after he left an improvised explosive device (IED) in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh in January 2018. At the High Court in ...
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