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Latest News
- Israel: IDF unveils Hezbollah’s massive weapons arsenal
December 25, 2024
IDF forces confiscated at least 85,000 weapons and intelligence items, with additional findings still being uncovered along the Lebanon border. Tens of thousands of other pieces of weaponry were destroyed ...
- UK: Bomb disposal unit sent to scene of two car fires
December 24, 2024
Police are investigating after two cars were set alight in east Devon in an incident which saw bomb disposal experts attend. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service sent a ...
- Turkey: 12 killed in explosion at explosives factory in Balikesir province
December 24, 2024
Turkish Health Minister Kemal Memisoglu said that five people were also injured in the blast, which occurred in the Karesi district. Regarding the latest situation, Balikesir Governor Ismail Ustaoglu said Turkish ...
- Israel: Three IDF soldiers killed in Gaza IED explosion
December 23, 2024
The IDF announced Monday evening that three soldiers from the Kfir Brigade’s 92nd Battalion (Samson) were killed overnight in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. The ...
- UK: Arson probe after car hits shop before fire
December 23, 2024
A major fire that broke out in a Birmingham shop is being treated as arson after a vehicle is believed to have hit the building before being set alight, police ...
- South Korea: 3 people injured in explosion at military base in Gimhae
December 23, 2024
Three civilians were injured in an explosion at a military base in this southeastern city on Monday, authorities said. The explosion occurred during an inspection of a recently constructed tank facility ...
- New York City police arrest suspect who set woman on fire in New York subway
December 23, 2024
New York City police arrested a man suspected of setting fire to a woman on the subway in Brooklyn who died from the incident, authorities said, calling it “one of ...
- Thailand: Pipe bomb attack injures four officers at Narathiwat base
December 22, 2024
A brazen attack occurred yesterday, December 21, as assailants hurled a pipe bomb at the Border Patrol Police base in Narathiwat, leaving four officers with minor injuries. The incident, captured on ...
- ‘That’s one I laid’ – How ex-Taliban are helping IED clear-up in Afghanistan
December 22, 2024
Former Taliban fighters are now helping the world’s largest landmine-clearing charity locate bombs which they planted during the long war against coalition forces in Afghanistan. One of the Halo Trust’s leaders ...
- Pakistan: 16 soldiers killed in South Waziristan checkpost attack
December 22, 2024
Sixteen soldiers were martyred on Saturday while thwarting terrorists attacked on a checkpost in Makeen area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s South Waziristan district, the military’s media wing said in a statement. In ...
- Israel’s Mossad spent years orchestrating Hezbollah pager plot
December 22, 2024
After nearly a year of war between Israel and the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, Lebanon was sent reeling in September when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members ...
- Ukraine: Explosives technicians neutralize downed Russian missile in Sumy region
December 22, 2024
In the Sumy region, bomb disposal experts have neutralized the warhead of a Russian Kh-59 cruise missile that failed to detonate after being shot down. The Sumy regional police reported ...
- India: Man uses IED in parcel to target ex-wife’s brother, injures relative
December 21, 2024
Panic gripped the Sabarmati area of Ahmedabad when a parcel exploded at a residence, leaving one person injured. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the blast was a result of a ...
- Pakistan: FC Balochistan uncovers IED manufacturing facility in Kharan Operation
December 21, 2024
Security forces uncovered an improvised explosive device (IED) manufacturing facility during an intelligence-based operation in Kharan, Balochistan, on December 20, officials reported. The operation, conducted by Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan, led ...
- Pennsylvania: FBI, bomb disposal units called to home in Clearfield County
December 21, 2024
An investigation is ongoing after emergency officials, including the FBI and bomb disposal units, were called to a home in Sandy Township Friday evening. While details are limited at this ...
- Mali: Over 20 civilians killed in Mopti village attacks
December 21, 2024
Suspected jihadists killed more than 20 people in a string of attacks on villages in central Mali’s insurgency-hit Mopti region on Friday, two local sources said. The unidentified assailants struck during ...
- NW Iowa Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Firing Two Improvised Explosive Missiles
December 21, 2024
A northwest Iowa man who built and fired two improvised explosive missiles will serve 10 years in federal prison. 60-year-old Daniel Graben of Sioux City has been sentenced in federal ...
- Premier US military CBRNE command improves interoperability at Yama Sakura
December 20, 2024
CAMP ASAKUSA, Japan – American Soldiers and Army civilians from the U.S. military’s premier Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command participated in Exercise Yama Sakura from Japan and Joint ...
