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- Afghanistan: ISIS affiliate claims spate of attacks on Taliban in Jalalabad
September 24, 2021
The eastern city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan has seen a spate of attacks against the Taliban this week by the group IS Khorasan (ISIS-K), an affiliate of ISIS. ISIS-K claimed three ...
- Indian scientists develop cost-effective device to rapidly detect explosives
September 24, 2021
Indian scientists have developed a thermally stable and cost-effective electronic polymer-based sensor for rapidly detecting nitro-aromatic chemicals used in high-energy explosives. The detection of explosives without destroying them is essential for ...
- Ready to go: Richmond County Bomb Squad always on alert to respond to explosive threats
September 23, 2021
Cpl. Jeremiah Welch was waiting to go inside. Someone had broke into a mine operation office and left a suspicious device strapped to the manager’s chair. It was his job ...
- Pakistan: IED attack damages girls’ school in Tank
September 23, 2021
An under construction girls middle school was damaged in a blast in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) Tank district late Tuesday night. Talking to The Express Tribune, District Police Officer (DPO) Tank, Sahibzada Sajjad ...
- U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician earns Master EOD Badge on Fort Irwin
September 23, 2021
FORT IRWIN, California – A seasoned U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician earned the Master EOD Badge on Fort Irwin, California, Sept. 14. Staff Sgt. Gabriel M. Leon from the 759th ...
- Philippines: US donates communication equipment, bomb disposal gears to improve PNP’s anti-terror capability
September 23, 2021
The United States has donated vehicles, communication equipment and bomb disposal protective gear to the Philippine National Police (PNP) in a bid to improve the country’s operational capability against terrorism. Among ...
- Somalia, AU Coordinate to Fight Against al-Shabab
September 23, 2021
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somalia’s National Army (SNA) launched a center this week to better coordinate their fight against al-Shabab militants, who have threatened to disrupt ...
- Bomb Threats: Mexico’s Crime Groups Turn to Explosives
September 23, 2021
A package bomb that killed a restaurateur and his manager underscores the escalating use of explosives – and the terror that they generate – by criminal groups in Mexico’s most ...
- Somalia: Two killed in IED blast in Marka
September 22, 2021
At least two people have been killed several others wounded after improvised explosive device went off on Wednesday in Marka town of Lower Shabelle region. According to police, the explosion took ...
- Pakistan: Two policemen injured in roadside bomb blast in Quetta
September 22, 2021
Two policemen were injured in roadside bomb explosion on Quetta’s Sariab road. According to police, an explosive device was planted near Kechi Beg on Sariab road, which was detonated by remote ...
- Ireland: Fake bomb is the latest disruption to children’s hospital site
September 22, 2021
A campaign of disruption to work at the National Children’s Hospital construction site in Dublin has intensified with a fake bomb placed there on Monday morning. It is understood this led ...
- NATO Secretary General attends opening of UN General Assembly
September 22, 2021
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joined world leaders at the opening of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday (21 September 2021). This ...
- Drones are redefining the modern battlefield – we must act swiftly to counter the UAS threat
September 22, 2021
Recent events in Afghanistan remind us that today’s global security landscape presents a vast matrix of complex challenges for the Department of Defense (DoD). One of the most concerning tactical ...
- Dubai Police look for loving families to adopt retired bomb-sniffing dogs
September 22, 2021
The K9 team at Dubai Police are looking for homes for their retired bomb-sniffing dogs. The animals on the adoption list have retired from active police duties or were unable to ...
- Can a cheap AI rover save thousands of lives at risk from landmines?
September 22, 2021
In 59 countries, leftover weapons of war continue to maim and kill civilians decades after a conflict has passed. An international team at Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is working ...
- Washington: Bomb squad called to Woodway after homemade explosive found
September 21, 2021
A report of a suspicious device in the Town of Woodway Tuesday morning turned out to be a homemade explosive device that was removed by the Everett Police Department’s bomb ...
- India: NIA raids seven locations in Kashmir in connection with IED recovery case
September 21, 2021
The anti-terror federal probe agency NIA conducted raids at seven places in capital city Srinagar and South and north Kashmir districts this morning in connection with the recovery of IED ...
- Azerbaijan, France consider signing mine clearance accord
September 21, 2021
The head of Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency, Vugar Suleymanov, and French ambassador Zacharie Gross have discussed France’s contribution to demining operations on territories liberated from Armenia’s occupation in the last ...
- UK: Controlled explosions carried out on two suspicious packages at the grounds of Lincoln Castle
September 21, 2021
Police and Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams are currently at the grounds of Lincoln Castle following a report of two suspicious packages. A 100m cordon has been put in place as a ...
- Jammu and Kashmir: 3 kg locally made IED, 3 Kg urea recovered in Kupwara
September 21, 2021
Police and army recovered three locally made Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from an abandoned shed in a remote area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Tuesday. A police officer told that ...
- Cameroon separatists kill 15 soldiers in attacks using explosives
September 20, 2021
Separatist rebels have killed 15 Cameroonian soldiers and several civilians in two bomb attacks this month, the government said on Monday, marking a new phase of a conflict that has ...
- Philippines: 8 hurt in Maguindanao IED explosion
September 20, 2021
Eight people were hurt after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off at the town plaza of Datu Piang in Maguindanao on Saturday, September 18, 2021, while a volleyball tournament ...
- Afghanistan: Several dead as second deadly bombing strikes Jalalabad in 2 days
September 20, 2021
Witnesses say an explosion targeted a Taliban vehicle in the provincial city of Jalalabad, the second such deadly blast in as many days in a Daesh stronghold. The Taliban and Daesh ...
- Iran: IRGC Unveils EOD Equipment
September 20, 2021
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps on Monday unveiled homegrown EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) and bomb detection products. In an exhibition opened by IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami in Tehran, the ...
- Somalia: One Killed, Five Wounded in Bula-Burte Airport Blast
September 19, 2021
At least one person has died and five others seriously wounded in an explosion inside Buoloburte airport in central Somalia. The explosion also caused severe damage to parts of the airport’s ...
- Afghanistan: 2 killed 19 wounded in consecutive explosions in Nangarhar
September 18, 2021
Three consecutive explosions targeting rangers of the Taliban killed 2 and wounded 19 more among them women and children in Police District 5 of Jalalabad city of eastern Nangarhar province. Health ...
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