Cyprus: Authorities defuse grenade found in Nicosia village

Authorities defused a defensive grenade found in a village in the Nicosia district on Wednesday evening. A citizen discovered the grenade in a field and alerted the authorities, who cordoned off the area and called in a bomb disposal expert. Read More …

Ontario: Improvised Explosive Devices Discovered in Niagara Falls Home

Niagara Regional Police evacuated homes in the Beaver Glen Drive area of Niagara Falls yesterday after receiving a concern about a suspicious device. A Niagara based social worker, during the course of their duties, alerted police about the device at Read More …

German police kill suspect in exchange of fire near Israeli consulate in Munich

German police shot dead a man in an exchange of fire near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in Munich on Thursday, state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said. “Due to the intervention of the police, the perpetrator was Read More …

MAG prepares for new contamination in Lebanon

Following the outbreak of conflict in Gaza on October 7, 2023, tensions have been escalating along the Blue Line – a 120-kilometre demarcation line established by the United Nations in 2000. In a region already grappling with explosive ordnance contamination Read More …

Iraq: Bomb blast kills two army officers, injures four soldiers in Kirkuk province

Two Iraqi army officers were killed and four soldiers were wounded in a bomb attack Wednesday in the northern province of Kirkuk, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in which an improvised explosive device Read More …

NATO troops complete live-agent training at Exercise Precise Response in Canada

CANADIAN FORCES BASE SUFFIELD, Alberta, Canada – NATO forces recently honed their skills during live-agent chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) training at Exercise Precise Response on Canadian Forces Base Suffield in Alberta, Canada. CBRN troops from Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Read More …

Cambodia: Siem Reap five-year mine action plan drafted

The five-year Siem Reap-Angkor Action Plan, which will be adopted for implementation at November’s 2024 Ottawa Convention meeting in Siem Reap province, has been successfully developed, according to the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), which will chair Read More …

Syria: 6 people injured in an IED detonation planted by terrorists in Daraa

Six people were slightly injured in Daraa province as a result of an explosive device planted by a terrorist group while Daraa Governor, Secretary of the Arab Socialist Baath Party branch, and the police chief were returning from a service Read More …

Israel: Improvised explosives and car bombs – the fight against West Bank terrorists and their IEDs

Anyone familiar with intelligence reports or even just monitoring Palestinian social media wouldn’t be surprised by the recent surge in explosive attacks across the West Bank. The Shin Bet identified this trend months ago, warning that the nature of attacks Read More …

Yemen’s Houthi forces claim latest attack against Israeli-linked tanker in Red Sea

Yemen’s Houthi-allied armed forces announced yesterday claimed responsibility for an operation against an Israeli-linked ship ‘Blue Lagoon I’ in the Red Sea in the latest of such attacks in solidarity with Palestine. The operation was conducted by Yemen’s missile, naval Read More …

Solomon Islands: US joins WWII UXO removal exercise

The United States (US) has joined a multinational team of experts from Canada, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand and the United Kingdom as part of “Operation Render Safe 2024.” The operation organized and led by the Australian Defense Force Read More …

Ireland: Five men arrested after gardaí recover 19 petrol bombs from car in Co Kildare

Five men have been arrested after gardaí recovered a total of 19 petrol bombs from a car they had stopped in Co Kildare. Four men were arrested when detective gardaí attached to Leixlip Garda Station intercepted the car in the Read More …

Afghanistan: Deadly Suicide Explosion in Kabul Leaves 6 Dead, 13 Injured

Kabul security command reported that in today’s explosion (Monday, September 2) in the Qala-e-Bakhtiar area of the sixth security district of Kabul city, six people were killed and thirteen others were injured. Khalid Zadran, the spokesperson for the Kabul security Read More …

Ssang Yong 24: CBRN tactical sight assessment and exploitation rehearsal

Republic of Korea Marines with Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Battalion, 1st ROK Marine Division and U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a tactical sight assessment and exploitation rehearsal during exercise Ssang Yong 24 in Pohang, South Korea, Read More …

New IAEA Publication about Detecting Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material out of Regulatory Control

A new IAEA publication titled Detection in a State’s Interior of Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material out of Regulatory Control offers law enforcement agencies and frontline officers detailed guidance to support them in combatting criminal acts involving nuclear or other Read More …

Ireland: Hand grenade thrown at house and pub doused with petrol in separate incidents in Cork

Gardaí are investigating separate and unrelated incidents in which a hand grenade was thrown at a house, forcing a midnight evacuation of homes in a Cork housing estate, and an attack in which a man attempted to douse a pub Read More …

Ukraine: Government will compensate 100% of the cost of demining to farmers who demine agricultural land

The Cabinet of Ministers has increased the amount of compensation for agricultural producers who plan to demine agricultural land from 80% to 100%. The programme will also now be open to those farmers who have a tax debt for land Read More …

Iraq: ISIS remnant landmine claims lives of three children near Mosul

A devastating explosion west of Mosul has claimed the lives of three children and injured two others from the same family. The blast, believed to have been caused by a landmine left behind by ISIS, occurred inside an abandoned house Read More …

Croatia donates robotic mine clearance system to Ukraine

Croatia has announced the transfer of a robotic mine clearance system to Ukraine. The relevant certificate was handed over to Ukrainian representatives by Croatian Defence Minister Ivan Anušić and the heads of the manufacturing company during the Globsec international conference Read More …