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MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan (AFNS) — The 35th Civil Engineering Squadron Office of Emergency Management conducted bilateral chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear small team operations training with the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 9th Chemical Protection Unit and members of the Read More …
An improvised bomb was discovered on Wednesday morning at the entrance of a real estate agency in Kiti, Larnaca district. According to the police, the device failed to detonate due to a material malfunction, according to police. No damage was Read More …
A mobile training team (Mobile Training Team/MTT), made up of five military trainers from the Engineer Battalion of the Spanish Army’s XVI ‘Canarias’ Brigade, is giving a course on Countering Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IEDs) in Porto Novo, the capital of Read More …
A concerned citizen called emergency responders after discovering a hand grenade while cleaning a storage building on February 4, 2025, according to the Shreveport Fire Department (SFD). Technicians from the SFD Bomb Squad analyzed the device and determined it was Read More …
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Iraq welcomes an additional funding from the Government of Italy, which will contribute to support the Government of Iraq (GoI) to protect civilians from the threat of explosive ordnance (EO) and will Read More …
Heng Ratana, Director General of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), met with a Nigerian deminers to discuss work related to demining in Nigeria at CMAC’s office on Monday. During Monday’s visit to the CMAC, the Nigerian reprsentatives wanted to Read More …
Another blast was reported near a police check post in Amritsar. According to initial reports, the explosion took place at the Fatehgarh Churian police post on the Amritsar bypass. There are no reports of casualties or injuries. Police are yet Read More …
Ukraine’s army chief condemned on Monday a spate of violent attacks on draft officers, rallying in defence of a national call-up effort that has fuelled anger among some Ukrainians and struggled to generate sufficient frontline manpower. The incidents, including the Read More …
A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city on Monday, killing at least 19 people, all but one of them women, and leaving more than a dozen wounded, hospital workers said. The car detonated next to Read More …
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that $21.9 million is needed this year to fund mine clearance and provide explosive hazard risk education in Afghanistan. In a statement on Sunday, OCHA warned that Read More …
An explosion occurred in the lobby of the Alye Parusa (or Scarlet Sails) high-rise residential complex in northwestern Moscow. According to the latest information, one person was killed and four people sustained injuries. The blast was caused by an unidentified Read More …
On Monday, a child was killed and another injured after an explosive remnant of war detonated in Riyadh subdistrict, southwest of Kirkuk, a medical source reported. The source told Shafaq News, “The two children were playing near Al-Shaheed village, about Read More …
It was a close call in Holt Saturday. The bomb squad from the Florida Bureau of Fire, Arson, and Explosives was called in to remove what was believed to be an unused explosive target. It was found on Poplar Head Church Read More …
Gardaí are investigating a pipe bomb attack at a house in Limerick that is believed to be linked to a violent feud between rival groups on the south side of the city. Locals reported that the improvised explosive device exploded Read More …
Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) “successfully” thwarted an ISIS bombing attempt targeting civilians and security forces in southwest Kirkuk. The group stated on Sunday that explosives experts from the PMF’s 15th Brigade, under the North and East Tigris Operations Command, Read More …
Almost 14 years of civil war contaminated swathes of the Syrian Arab Republic with roughly 324,600 unexploded rockets and bombs and thousands of landmines, according to a 2023 estimate by the US-based Carter Center. In the last four years alone, Read More …
All 60 members of the Chinese military engineering contingent from the 23rd Chinese Peacekeeping Force to Lebanon successfully passed the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) qualification assessment in a single attempt on Friday. They obtained dual certifications in mine Read More …
The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) on Sunday detected and destroyed 25 kilogram of IED planted by Maoists on the road near Dhan Mandi at a distance of 3 kilometre from Usur on the Usur-Awapalli main road in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. Read More …
An explosion occurred near the building of the District Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center (TRC) in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region. Law enforcement officials are working at the scene of the incident. The National Police of Ukraine reported this. According to Read More …
An angler discovered a 61mm rusty mortar bomb while fishing at Sri Tujuh beach here yesterday. District police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Khairi Shafie said police were informed about the discovery at around 2.28pm. “A 26-year-old man reported to the Read More …