- New Zealand rotates troops in Iraq, sends nearly 100 soldiers
April 20, 2018
Almost 100 forces from New Zealand left for Iraq to train local troops as part of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS), New Zealand’s Sun Live reported on Thursday. The coalition’s Task Group Taji in Iraq, made of military advisers from Australia and New Zealand, has so far trained thousands of Iraqi soldiers and federal police ...
- Malaysia Arrests Seven Men With Islamic State Links Over Attacks Plot
March 24, 2018
Malaysian police have arrested seven men with links to the Islamic State militant group who were planning attacks on non-Muslim places of worship and other targets, authorities said on Saturday. The Muslim-majority country has been on high alert since gunmen allied with Islamic State (IS) carried out a series of attacks in Jakarta, the capital of ...
- 2 killed during land mine clearance training in Cambodia
March 16, 2018
A land mine exploded accidently during clearance training at a military base in western Cambodia, killing two people, including an Australian, and injuring three others, police said. National police said the explosion occurred Thursday in Kampong Speu province when a soldier who was being trained mishandled a decades-old land mine that had been removed from the ground. ...
- Israeli intel thwarts ISIS attack on Australian airliner
February 22, 2018
An elite IDF intelligence unit was successful in exposing and thwarting an Islamic State (ISIS) terror plot to bomb an airliner flying out of Australia at the end of 2017. According to an army announcement on Wednesday, the IDF’s famed 8200 cyber unit uncovered the plot and then relayed the information to Israel’s intelligence community, which shared ...
- Web watch targets 50 sites with South, ISIS links
February 7, 2018
Authorities are keeping a close watch on around 50 websites with alleged links to the Islamic State (IS) for possible connections with violence in the restive South, a senior police officer said Tuesday. Speaking after chairing a meeting on transnational terrorism with senior officials from the Australian Federal Police, deputy national police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said about ...
- Islamic State cells now operating in Malaysia, says anti-terror chief
November 22, 2017
State terrorists no longer act as lone wolves but have organised themselves into cells in Malaysia, police said today. Special Branch Counter-Terrorism chief Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said the first cell detected in Malaysia was the group targeting the “Better Beer Festival” in September. He said the cells usually have between three and 10 members and have no direct links ...
- Malaysia: Cops link suspected beer fest attack plotter to Puchong bombing gang
October 17, 2017
One of three men suspected of planning an attack on the cancelled Better Beer Festival in Kuala Lumpur is linked to a gang behind last year’s Islamic State (IS) strike on the Movida nightclub in Puchong, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun said today. Fuzi earlier today confirmed that three men were arrested for ...
- Nine NPA bomb makers surrender in Sultan Kudarat
September 25, 2017
Nine communist rebels trained to make and use powerful roadside bombs surrendered to the military on Sunday. The nine supposed New People’s Army guerrillas turned themselves in to the Army’s 33rd Infantry Battalion in Barangay Malegdeg in Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat. They yielded six newly-assembled IEDs, “subversive” documents, medical supplies and lists of traders they were ...
- 3 arrested over suspected terror links in Malaysia
September 14, 2017
Malaysia’s police have arrested three people suspected of being involved in activities related to the Islamic State (IS) terror group. This included a man who was said to have received instructions from Mahmud Ahmad, now Malaysia’s most wanted terrorist, and from a Saudi Arabian bomb-making expert on how to make a large-scale improvised explosive device (IED). The ...
- Combating IEDs with ground penetrating radars
August 28, 2017
Vehicle-mounted ground-penetrating radar (GPR) equipment has been used by the ADF to detect Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) for several years, but there remains much room for improvement in the signal processing component of the technology. A recent trial between the US and Australia provided the opportunity to test the performance of vehicle-mounted GPR equipment on different soil ...
- Lebanon Foiled ISIS Barbie Doll Bomb Plot On Flight From Australia To Abu Dhabi
August 21, 2017
Lebanese intelligence helped foil a plot by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) to bring down an airliner with bombs hidden inside a Barbie doll and a meat grinder, the country’s interior minister said Monday. Nouhad Machnouk told reporters that Lebanese police intelligence stopped the explosive device plot on the Emirati flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi, capital of the United ...
- Australian terror threat: National strategy to protect crowds unveiled
August 20, 2017
From architects to bar staff, Australians involved in managing crowds will be urged to plug security into their everyday thinking to prevent terror attacks under a national strategy that will embed long-term changes into the country’s public spaces. The major blueprint gives detailed advice to owners and operators of places that attract crowds on how to ...
- Avoiding the Boom: Bilateral Counter Improvised Explosive Device Course
August 14, 2017
Fort Surasri, Thailand – Soldiers from the Royal Thai Army Explosive Ordinance Device Center shared principles and tactics of counter-improvised explosive devices with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, “Gimlets” August 9 through August 14, 2017. The RTA EOD center provided the instructors, certified through U.S. Pacific Command, to teach the C-IED tactics to ...
- Border force faces questions over ‘terror bomb’ mailed from Turkey
August 4, 2017
Border and security authorities would be “doing a lot of soul searching” following revelations that a bomb kit was allegedly mailed to Australia by the Islamic State and probably couldn’t be sure that more explosive devices had not come into the country, a leading expert has said. After the Australian Federal Police revealed that the bomb at the ...
- Police: IS ‘commander’ directed plane bomb plot in Australia
August 4, 2017
A commander in Islamic State ordered a group of Australian men to build a bomb destined for an Etihad Airways flight departing from Sydney, police have said. The improvised explosive device was intended to be smuggled on to a flight on 15 July but the plan was aborted before it reached airport security. Australian Federal Police Deputy ...
- Australian plane bomb plotters ‘planned to use meat mincer filled with explosives’
July 31, 2017
Four Australian-Lebanese men accused of plotting to bring down a plane planned to use poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer, reports say. The men, who were arrested in raids in Sydney on Saturday night, are not thought to be two sets of fathers and sons, despite earlier reports. The Sydney Daily Telegraph said that ...
- Sydney terror raids ‘disrupted’ plot to bring down plane, Malcolm Turnbull says
July 30, 2017
Authorities in Sydney have seized material that could be used to make an improvised bomb, as investigations continue into an alleged terror plot to bring down a plane. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull this morning confirmed raids carried out in Sydney yesterday “disrupted” what appeared to be an “elaborate” conspiracy, and said extra security was in place ...
- Queensland specialist police called out to record numbers of home-made explosives
July 2, 2017
Specialist police are being called to deal with a soaring number of home-made explosives in Queensland. Calls for help to the Explosive Ordnance Response Team increased by 63 per cent from 2005 to 2011 and almost 160 per cent from 2012 to 2015. While there were 42 incident responses in 2011-12, that number rose to 109 in 2014-15. Authorities say ...
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