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Latest News
- US military starts removing mines from Strait of Hormuz
April 11, 2026
The U.S. military has launched operations to begin de-mining the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said on Saturday. Centcom said in a social media post highlighted by Defense Secretary ...
- Bangladesh: IEDs, anti-personnel mines detected, flammable chemicals seized at Naikhongchhari border
April 10, 2026
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has detected improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and anti-personnel mines along the Naikhongchhari border in Bandarban and seized a significant quantity of flammable chemical substances in separate ...
- New Hampshire: Webster man pleading guilty to building, setting off pipe bombs
April 10, 2026
A man from Webster is pleading guilty to building and setting off pipe bombs in Weare. Officials say Dale Stewart Jr. detonated two pipe bombs on Dustin Tavern Road and ...
- Nigeria: Jihadists kill army general and soldiers in attack on Borno state base
April 10, 2026
Jihadists killed an army general and several troops in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria, local government and intelligence sources told AFP Thursday. Brigadier General Oseni Omoh Braimah ...
- UK: Man accused of leading Al-Shabaab activities charged with terror offences
April 9, 2026
A man has been charged with terrorist offences involving a group in East Africa. Jermaine Grant, 43, of no fixed address, is accused of directing the activities of the Somali-based ...
- Nigeria: North-East recorded nearly 2,000 IED explosions in seven years,
April 9, 2026
Nearly 2,000 times in seven years, a bomb went off somewhere in Nigeria’s North-East. A new report puts a hard number on what security forces and civilians there have been ...
- Jammu and Kashmir: Security forces recover, defuse IED in Shopian
April 8, 2026
Security forces on Wednesday recovered an 14.5 kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in south Kashmir’s Shopian. Officials said that Chinar Warriors, in a joint operation with Jammu and Kashmir Police, averted ...
- Alberta: Homemade bomb containing screws discovered during Sherwood Park arrest
April 8, 2026
The bomb squad was called in after Strathcona County RCMP pulled over a car in Sherwood Park with a mismatching plate, only to find weapons and an improvised explosive device ...
- RFI: Explosive Hazard Detection with Automated Target Recognition (ATR)
April 8, 2026
The U.S. Army Capability Program Executive Ammunition & Energetics (CPE A&E) is currently conducting market research and trade studies of automated target recognition (ATR) technologies to detect explosive hazards and ...
- Malawi: Police defuse explosive devices discovered at construction site in Mchinji
April 8, 2026
Police in Mchinji District were on high alert yesterday after construction workers unearthed four suspected explosive devices buried underground at a site located on a former airstrip in the iNkosi ...
- US and Iran agree to a two-week ceasefire
April 8, 2026
The United States and Iran said Tuesday they have agreed to a two-week ceasefire in the war that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
- India: Chhattisgarh Police bring surrendered Maoist ‘experts’ to train recruits on IEDs
April 7, 2026
The Chhattisgarh Police have sent more than a dozen surrendered Maoist cadres to the Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare (CTJW) College to brief fresh recruits on their methods, especially the ...
- ATF: National Odor Recognition Testing
April 7, 2026
The National Odor Recognition Test (NORT) is a nationally recognized standardized method to evaluate a canine team’s ability to detect selected explosives. The ATF National Canine Division mobile training team travels ...
- Pakistan: Five police personnel injured in IED attack on patrol in Lakki Marwat
April 7, 2026
At least five police personnel were injured when a police mobile vehicle was targeted by an improvised explosive device (IED) during a patrol in the Shahbazkhel police station area of ...
- Danish Refugee Council removes explosive ordnance from key humanitarian infrastructure supporting forced returnees in Afghanistan
April 7, 2026
The Danish Refugee Council has removed ten pieces of explosive ordnance from critical humanitarian infrastructure supporting forced returnees from Pakistan. This explosive ordnance was found following heavy fighting in March at ...
- India: Explosives found in bag in Nagpur
April 7, 2026
Panic gripped the Central Avenue area after a bag containing live explosives was found near Dosar Vaishya Bhavan in the Gandhibag area of Nagpur on Tuesday. Nagpur Police said they ...
- Netherlands: Bombing targets ATM at hotel Pestana Amsterdam Riverside in Amsterdam-Zuid
April 6, 2026
Police received a report of an explosion at the hotel around 4:45 AM. Upon arrival, officers found a destroyed ATM. Damage to the hotel is significant, according to a police ...
- Kuwait: EOD teams respond to 21 falling debris incidents
April 6, 2026
Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior announced on Monday that explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams handled 21 reports over the past 24 hours involving falling debris on homes and vehicles because of ...
