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Latest News
- ISIL attacks warn of a re-emergence in northeast Syria
April 29, 2022
SIL (ISIS) is believed to have carried out a spate of attacks in the past week in northeastern Syria, an indication, experts and monitors have said, that the group is ...
- Afghanistan’s landmines threaten starvation as well as life and limb
April 29, 2022
As you drive along Afghanistan’s motorways, you have to deal with the culvert crater problem. In this mountainous country, prone to seasonal flash floods, most roads are undercut with drainage ...
- Ukrainian law enforcement officers continue painstaking work eliminating explosive hazards
April 29, 2022
“Destroy and do not stop”, – Metropolitan EOD technician Igor Wojciechowski on the seizure of enemy ammunition. Law enforcement officers continue painstaking work eliminating explosive objects using controlled explosions to neutralize ...
- Afghanistan: Death Toll of Thursday’s Blasts in Balkh Rises to 11
April 29, 2022
The death toll from two blasts in Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday evening has risen to 11, and the number of injured to 17. Mohammad Asif Waziri, spokesman for the Balkh Police Command, ...
- Oklahoma: Explosive device rendered safe in Bixby
April 28, 2022
Multiple law enforcement agencies are on the scene after an improvised explosive device (IED) was found in a car after a police chase Thursday morning. Bixby police got into a pursuit ...
- U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal NCOs lead from front for 80 years
April 28, 2022
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland – U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal noncommissioned officers have defeated dangerous explosive devices and molded EOD teams since the Army EOD profession began more than 80 ...
- Libya: Landmines, Other War Hazards, Killing Civilians
April 27, 2022
At least 130 people, mostly civilians, have been killed by landmines and abandoned or unexploded ordnance in Libya since the armed group called the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) withdrew ...
- A New Age of Bioterror: Anticipating Exploitation of Tunable Viral Agents
April 27, 2022
Abstract: Advances in technology, particularly biotechnology, over the past decade have dramatically changed the world. Scientists are employing gene editing tools to cure genetic diseases, reduce the effects of climate ...
- Russian PTKM-1R Top-attack Anti-vehicle Mine Documented in Ukraine
April 27, 2022
Images shared to social media indicate that the Russian PTKM-1R (ПТКМ-1Р) top-attack anti-vehicle landmine was recently employed in Ukraine. This munition is not known to have been previously employed on ...
- Ethiopia arrests four over hotel bomb attack in Harar
April 27, 2022
Ethiopian authorities have arrested four suspects in connection with the Sunday bomb attack at a hotel in the historic city of Harar. In a statement on Tuesday, Harari Regional State Police ...
- Syria: Rebel commander seriously injured by IED in Afrin
April 27, 2022
A commander of the Al-Rahman corps was seriously injured on Wednesday morning by an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to his car in the Al-Ashrafiyah neighborhood in Afrin, the UK-based ...
- Ukraine: Time of demining territory around Chornobyl NPP to be measured in months
April 27, 2022
The time for humanitarian demining of the area around the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) will be measured in months, Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky has said. According to the Minister of ...
- Solomon Islands: Japan Delegation Visits EOD Team at RSIPF
April 27, 2022
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) met with the Japan Honourable Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Uesugi Kentaro and the Japanese delegation ...
- Nigeria: DSS Warns Nigerians Of Bomb Attacks On Worship, Relaxation Centres
April 26, 2022
The Department of State Services (DSS) hereby draws public attention to plans by criminal elements to return the country to the pre-2015 era reminiscent of IED attacks on soft and ...
- Pakistan: Female suicide bomber kills three Chinese teachers and Pakistani at Karachi university
April 26, 2022
A suspected female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Karachi on Tuesday, police and officials said, drawing strong condemnation from Beijing, in the first major attack this year against ...
- Philippines: Facial composite of Maguindanao bomb suspect released
April 26, 2022
Police authorities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) released the facial composite (formerly referred to as cartographic sketch) and closed-circuit television (CCTV) security footage of a man ...
- Transnistria Rocked by Explosions Hours Apart
April 26, 2022
Explosions damaged two radio towers in Moldova’s separatist region Transnistria, government officials said, a day after several blasts hit the state’s security ministry offices. Two explosions were heard in the village ...
- Nigeria: One Killed, Seven Injured As Explosion Rocks Yobe State
April 25, 2022
One person has been killed while seven others were injured after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded in Yobe state. The incident happened on Sunday night at a local drinking joint ...
- Explosion in Jammu on day of PM Modi’s visit may be an IED dropped by drone
April 25, 2022
The mysterious blast which took place hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first public appearance in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370, may have been an IED ...
- India: Bomb outside Chandigarh’s Model Jail defused by NSG team
April 25, 2022
Over 20 hours after a bomb was recovered outside the Model Jail in Sector 51, a team of the National Security Guard (NSG) safely defused it on Sunday afternoon. A bag ...
- Northern Ireland: Coleraine police investigating ‘reckless’ petrol bomb attack on two properties
April 25, 2022
Police investigating petrol bomb incidents which occurred in Co Derry over the weekend have arrested two men. The incidents which occurred on April 24 in Coleraine, saw petrol bombs thrown at ...
- India: Five children injured after crude bomb blast in Bengal
April 25, 2022
Five children were injured in a blast while playing with a crude bomb which they mistook as a ball in Malda district on Sunday. Two of the injured were admitted ...
- UK: Bomb squad called in after failed sniffer dog digs up live grenade on a Norfolk beach
April 25, 2022
A man has described how his dog dug up a grenade on a Norfolk beach and “tossed it around like a tennis ball”. Steve Rose was out walking his springer spaniel ...
- Ukraine: Demining in Kharkov region
April 25, 2022
Servicemen of the engineering troops of the Russian Armed Forces conduct mine clearance in populated areas in Kharkov region. Engineering reconnaissance is carried out on site, the situation is assessed, and ...
- Attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso kill 21, wound dozens
April 25, 2022
Fifteen soldiers and six civilians were killed on Sunday in attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso, neighbouring West African countries struggling with deadly jihadist insurgencies, military and security sources said. Suicide ...
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