- Western Australia: Homemade “fragment bomb” thrown into a crowd at a Perth Invasion Day rally
January 27, 2026
A homemade “fragment bomb” thrown into a crowd at a Perth Invasion Day rally yesterday was hidden in a child’s Disney-themed sock, according to a woman who picked it up. Police alleged the device was packed with chemicals and designed to explode on impact, but it did not detonate. It was thrown from a shopping centre ...
- Canberra: Belconnen man charged in relation to 15 pipe bombs found along the shore of Lake Ginninderra
January 18, 2026
A 41-year-old man has been charged over the alleged manufacturing of pipe bombs found along footpaths in Canberra’s north this week. Fifteen explosive devices were found along the shore of Lake Ginninderra in Belconnen between Joynton Smith Drive and Ginninderra Drive. Some of the devices had detonated prior to being found, while others were detonated by ...
- The Philippines’ long battle against Islamist extremism is back in the spotlight following Bondi attack
December 17, 2025
As Australian authorities try to retrace the steps and understand the motivations of the Bondi Beach gunmen who killed 15 people on Sunday, one key focus has emerged: their travel to the Philippines last month, shortly before the attack. Officials say father-son duo Sajid and Naveed Akram journeyed to a southern part of the archipelago nation ...
- Bondi Beach terror attack: Police uncover ‘several devices’ as public urged to ‘stay away’
December 14, 2025
Police have said a number of “improvised explosive devices” found in a shooter’s car have been removed from Bondi Beach after officiers earlier warned the public to stay away from the area after at least 16 people were killed.. According to Australia’s ABC news, New South Wales (NSW) Police said there was an ongoing bomb threat ...
- New South Wales: At least 12 people dead as Bondi Beach attack declared act of terrorism
December 14, 2025
At least 12 people, including one shooter, have been killed in an attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday evening, in what has been declared a terrorist incident. The second shooter is in police custody, and is in a critical condition. Twenty-nine people have been injured, including two police officers who were among those shot and ...
- How Kiwi soldiers are helping train Ukraine forces
December 3, 2025
The New Zealand Defence Force is continuing to provide training to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in counter explosive ordnance measures and drone warfare – over three and a half years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. The Defence Force said under Operation Tīeke, up to 100 personnel across land, maritime and air are deployed ...
- Victoria: Man pleads guilty after detonating improvised explosive at defence expo in Melbourne last year
November 27, 2025
An engineer who set off an improvised explosive device in an effort to disrupt an international weapons expo has described it as a “terrible error in judgment”. Shamera Fernando detonated a “homemade incendiary device” in the bathroom of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on September 12 last year. The explosion caused a small fire in ...
- Queensland: Seven people arrested in counter-terrorism sting
November 5, 2025
Seven people have been arrested in a months-long counter-terrorism sting across regional Queensland. Police said they seized 20 kilograms of explosives alongside home-made bombs and guns in a series of raids across the state, most recently in August. Officers from the counter-terrorism investigation group carried out the raids as part of Operation Whiskey Blackheart. Read more… Source: ABC ...
- Solomon Islands: Bomb explodes at Townground area
October 31, 2025
An unexploded ordinance (UXO) went off this evening, Thursday, at Town Ground, West Honiara causing a huge bang and fear within the vicinity. Reports reaching Solomon Star said, the explosion occurred closed to the Scripture Union building along the Lengakiki road right opposite the Town-ground rugby field. A person was reportedly injured as a result of ...
- Solomon Islands: Over 6k UXOs disposed off in 2024
October 30, 2025
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Unit of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) has safely disposed of 6,121 unexploded ordnances (UXOs) nation-wide in 2024. Of this total, 3,200 UXOs were cleared in Western Province under Operation Render Safe. Officer-in-Charge of the EOD Unit, Ansa Puaraua, revealed the figures during his presentation at the National UXO ...
- Canadian Armed Forces Builds Readiness And Leads Allies In Modern Training At Exercise ARDENT DEFENDER
October 15, 2025
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) will host military members from Allied and partner countries at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown for Exercise ARDENT DEFENDER from October 16 to 29, 2025. Exercise ARDENT DEFENDER is the CAF’s premier multinational Counter-Improvised Explosive Device exercise. Led by the Canadian Armed Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (CAF EOD) Organization, this ...
- Solomon Islands: World War II era weapons still threatening lives and development
October 6, 2025
Last century the remote Solomon Islands was the stage for some of the most intense battles fought during the Pacific campaign of the Second World War. But while Allied troops departed on the heels of victory, the military forces of both sides left a massive legacy of unexploded ordnance (UXO) which is still scattered across ...
- RNZN: Working in the ‘real world’ at NATO’s premier IEDD exercise
October 3, 2025
Northern Challenge is NATO’s top Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEDD) exercise, hosted by the Icelandic Coast Guard in Keflavik. It involves Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) forces from 17 countries coming together to practise responding to real-life terrorist incidents involving improvised and military explosive devices. The Royal New Zealand Navy has been sending MEOD teams to Northern ...
- ADF: Taking mine clearance to the next level
September 29, 2025
A pair of rockets launch from an M1150 assault breacher vehicle over an anti-tank minefield trailing 110m lines, each covered with 750 kilograms of explosives. A thunderous explosion erupts as the lines detonate, triggering the mines or ejecting them from the site. Inside the vehicle are a pair of sappers, like Corporal Connor Trost, a combat ...
- Philippines: Army slams NPAs for stockpiling IEDs near Butuan community
September 14, 2025
The Philippine Army’s 48th Infantry Battalion (48IB) denounced the communist New People’s Army (NPA) for endangering residents by stockpiling improvised explosive devices (IEDs) close to a community in Butuan City. The 48IB troopers recovered the explosives in Purok 6, Barangay Bugsukan on Sept. 11, following the disclosure of an NPA member who recently surrendered. Recovered at ...
- New Zealand: Huntly man built pipe bomb to scare off ‘undesirable’ neighbours
September 6, 2025
After having his belongings stolen, and the windows of his car and Kāinga Ora home smashed, Warren John Frederick Lee had had enough. The 76-year-old former quarry worker decided to make a pipe bomb, with enough ammonia to damage everything in a 1km radius of his Huntly home. The bomb then lay idle in his livingroom. ...
- Deadly threat of unexploded bombs in the Pacific persists 80 years on
September 6, 2025
This year is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, but in some countries, the trail of death and destruction continues. Bombs, nearly a century old, are still exploding, killing and maiming people and contaminating land. Four years ago, a group of young people gathered for a barbecue in a residential backyard. ...
- U.S., Australia Conduct Joint Chemical, Biological Exercise
August 29, 2025
Marines assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 174, Marine Aircraft Group 24, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, joined forces with the Air Force, Air Force Reserves, Air National Guard and Royal Australian Air Force for Exercise Toxic Swell 25. The two-week training event on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, focused on enhancing chemical, biological, radiological and ...
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