Europe

September 28, 2026

21–23 October 2026 | International Exhibition and Professional Forum 24 October 2026 | Defence and Security Day for the Public From 21 to 23 October, PVA EXPO PRAGUE will host the sixteenth edition of the international Future Forces Exhibition & Forum (FF26) – one of the region’s biggest dates on the defence and security calendar. It brings ...

September 27, 2026

Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation that saw several men arrested for explosive offences near RAF Fairford. The police operation near RAF Fairford saw residents evacuated in the village of Whelford in Gloucestershire. The operation was not intelligence-led, meaning investigators had not known about any potential plot in advance. A large emergency services presence was seen ...

September 25, 2026

The operation was carried out throughout Italy. The youths, many of them minors, frequented supremacist social media groups and exchanged information to build explosive devices. They published manifestos about the massacres of white supremacist attackers, praising Hitler or Brenton Tarrant, the perpetrator of mosque attacks that killed dozens. But they also proposed techniques for carrying out ...

September 22, 2026

Traces of explosives have been found near a German military base close to where drone parts were discovered last week in an incident that investigators believe could be linked to the failed attack at Leipzig airport in August, security sources told dpa on Tuesday. It is still being investigated whether the traces can be linked to ...

September 22, 2026

Military and civilian medical and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) defence experts from 16 nations have gathered in Sweden for the CLEAN CARE multinational Tabletop Exercise (TTX), bringing together approximately 75 participants from NATO Allies and partner nations. Hosted by Sweden, the exercise provides a multinational forum in which medical and CBRN specialists can examine ...

September 21, 2026

A suspected unexploded device has been discovered in the water at a dockyard near Falmouth, Cornwall. Emergency services remain at the scene, with two nearby homes evacuated as a precaution. The Coastguard is also advising boat users to avoid the area while specialist Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) officers assess the device. Local media reports indicate the ...

September 20, 2026

Syria and Ukraine signed a high-level humanitarian cooperation agreement on Sunday at the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management in Damascus to enhance demining operations, technical surveying, and sustainable agricultural recovery. The agreement was signed by Syrian Civil Defense Director Mounir Mustafa and Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Economy and Environment Ihor Bezkaravainyi. It aims to leverage ...

September 20, 2026

Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than three decades after the end of the war, has about 756 square kilometers of mine-suspected area, while the number of people trained in mine countermeasures has almost halved compared to the period before the coronavirus pandemic. The new law on mine action, which is still in the process of harmonization, ...

September 20, 2026

Homes around the North Way Estate Park in Finglas were evacuated on Saturday evening due to the discovery of a viable suspicious device. The Irish Defense Forces and Gardaí attended the scene, with the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit undertaking a controlled explosion on the device. Evacuated residents have since been allowed to return to their homes. Local ...

September 17, 2026

An explosion occurred near the building of a district Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) in Mykolaiv, Lviv region, injuring a TRC service member. “Today, at around 16:30, an explosion involving an unidentified device occurred near the entrance to the building of the Stryi District Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center in the town of Mykolaiv, Lviv region. ...

September 17, 2026

A Macclesfield man found in possession of ‘terrorist material’ during a police raid has been jailed. Jonathan Wilson, of Abbey Road, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment at Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday, September 16. It comes after the 49-year-old admitted to nine counts of possessing/collecting of information likely to be useful to a person committing or ...

September 16, 2026

Police on Wednesday announced arrests in a case involving a criminal gang accused of stealing vehicles and blowing up an ATM in the town of Martino, south-central Fthiotida prefecture, as authorities investigate a series such robberies across Greece. Two local men, aged 44 and 29, were arrested Monday, Sept. 14, during coordinated operations in the greater ...

September 16, 2026

A drone was found Wednesday in a forest in northern Lithuania, likely crashed months ago, prompting authorities to activate a bomb-response plan and send bomb disposal experts to the site, police said. The police later specified the drone appeared to have been used for smuggling and did not carry any explosives. The drone was discovered at about ...

September 12, 2026

Bulgaria is investigating the cause of a fire at a weapons storage facility ‌operated by EMCO, including the possibility of sabotage and a link to a previous blaze at another of the company’s facilities in August, the interior minister said. No injuries were reported in the fire, which broke out near the village of Tsareva Livada ...

September 10, 2026

A man has appeared in court charged with terror offences after allegedly planning to assist Russian security forces with the sabotage of a drone factory. Joshua Cammidge, 31, is accused of helping the GRU Volunteer Corps and planned to ‘torch’ a drone factory, the prosecution told the court. He allegedly researched four drone manufacturing sites as ...

September 8, 2026

German police have detained a 48-year-old man suspected of carrying out a series of sabotage attacks on the country’s ​electricity grid, police and prosecutors said on Tuesday. The suspect, identified as Daniel V. in ‌line with German privacy rules, was detained near Weisweiler, about 50 km (30 miles) west of Cologne, ending a manhunt that began ...

September 5, 2026

German police have discovered a total of 12 explosive devices along power lines in the eastern state of Saxony following a series of attacks on the country’s power grid this week, press reports said. “These were intended to cause damage to the high-voltage power lines by inducing a short circuit,” the weekly Focus news magazine reported Saturday, citing ...

September 3, 2026

In Munich, a man and a woman allegedly attempted to carry out an arson attack outside the premises of two defence companies. The pair were arrested. Several incendiary devices were set off during the night outside Munich-based technology group Rohde & Schwarz and German drone manufacturer Helsing. Investigators currently believe that two of the devices ignited, while ...