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Latest News
- Finland: Controlled explosion carried out on drone warhead in municipality of Iitti
April 12, 2026
The Finnish Defence Forces and police detonated an unexploded warhead found in a remote area of Iitti on Saturday. The device had detached from a suspected Ukrainian drone discovered nearby. Prime ...
- India: 21 bunkers flattened, 13 IEDs seized by security forces in Manipur
April 12, 2026
Security forces have reportedly destroyed 21 bunkers in Manipur’s Ukhrul district and seized 13 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from the Tengnoupal district. On Saturday, 14 bunkers were destroyed in Sikibung village ...
- Northern Ireland: North Belfast suspicious object declared ‘elaborate hoax’
April 12, 2026
A security alert in the Canning Place area of north Belfast has now ended. Local policing Sergeant Kelly said: “A suspected pipe bomb was found at the front of a ...
- West Bank: IDF confiscates 200 pipe bombs, numerous IEDs in Tulkarm
April 12, 2026
The IDF destroyed on Friday an explosives manufacturing lab in Tulkarm in the West Bank, the military said on Sunday morning. Numerous improvised explosive devices (IEDs), including about 200 pipe bombs, ...
- UK: Unexploded WW2 bomb detonated in controlled explosion at Mansel Park, Southampton
April 12, 2026
A suspected unexploded World War II device was safely detonated in a controlled explosion at Mansel Park in Millbrook on Sunday afternoon. The Army’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team rushed to ...
- India: 5 officials injured in crude bomb explosion during search op in Bihar’s Begusarai
April 11, 2026
Five officials, including three personnel of the Special Task Force (STF), were injured in a crude bomb explosion in Bihar’s Begusarai district on Saturday, police said. The incident happened in the ...
- California: Suspect arrested after incendiary device thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home
April 11, 2026
A 20-year-old man has been arrested after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman early Friday morning. The incident happened around 4:00 am ...
- 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 ...
