Philippines: Military seizes NPA bomb factory

A camp used by the New People’s Army to manufacture homemade explosives was over ran by joint forces of the military and police in Sitio Cabilocan, Barangay Cabadiagan, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental. After receiving reports on the presence of armed Read More …

Fermanagh bomb attack ‘deliberate attempt’ to murder police, says PSNI

  The PSNI believes officers were lured to the site of the suspected dissident bomb attack in Co Fermanagh in attempt to kill and injure them. PSNI deputy chief constable Stephen Martin told a press conference in Belfast: “The threat Read More …

Sri Lanka: Germany grants 4m Euros for mine clearance

The German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO) provides 4 million Euros (approx. LKR 800m) for demining in affected areas of the Northern and Eastern Provinces. The GFFO made this decision in light of Sri Lanka’s accession to the Ottawa Anti-Personnel Mine Read More …

Israel: Unknown assailants detonate bomb in Bnei Brak apartment building; no injuries

Police exploring possible attempt to threaten senior municipal officials living in the building; stun grenade thrown at Netivot mayor’s home A bomb blew up in an apartment building stairwell in the central city of Bnei Brak on Sunday night, damaging Read More …

Yemen rebel drone attack targets remote Saudi oil field

Saudi Arabia describes the damage as a “limited fire” in the second such recent attack on its crucial energy industry. Houthi spokesman says rebels launched 10 bomb-laden drones targeting the field in their “biggest-ever” operation; threatens more attacks coming. Drones Read More …

Pakistan: At least 3 killed in roadside IED blast in Upper Dir: police

At least three people were killed after a bomb went off in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Upper Dir district on Sunday. The blast, which occurred in the Gumadand area of the Sheringal tehsil, left at least a dozen people injured, said police. Read More …

PKK roadside bomb kills 1 in southeast Turkey’s Hakkari

At least one civilian was killed Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion in Turkey’s southeastern Hakkari province, authorities said. In a statement, the provincial governor’s office said a vehicle was passing through the Çatalca neighborhood in Semdinli district when the Read More …

Roadside blast kills 12 civilians in Afghanistan

A roadside bomb explosion claimed lives of at least 12 civilians in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, an official said. Mohammad Yosuf, governor of Dawlat Abad district in Balkh province, said a mini-bus carrying civilians hit the roadside improvised explosive device Read More …

U.S., Allied Forces Launch EOD Exercise HYDRACRAB

In a first-of-its-kind event, expeditionary forces from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States arrived in Guam August 14 to conduct Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) training in exercise HYDRACRAB. HYDRACRAB brings together more than 100 Sailors from four Indo-Pacific Read More …

Afghan Special Forces destroy suicide bombers training center in Logar province

The Afghan Special Forces destroyed a training center of the suicide bombers during an operation in central Logar province. The 203rd Thunder Corps said in a statement the Special Forces destroyed the suicide bombers training center in Tagab area of Read More …

Philippines: Westmincom on guard against suicide bombings

The Islamic State-inspired Abu Sayyaf group and foreign militants that are with them are planning more suicide bombings after their June 28 attack in Sulu, the chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command said Monday. “So we have monitored that Read More …

Army bomb disposal unit carried out controlled explosion of grenade at building site in Deepcut

A bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion of a “legacy grenade” at a building site in Deepcut. The Army’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team were called to a building site close to Aisne Road in Deepcut at around 2pm on Friday (August Read More …

Leicestershire: ‘Unexploded devices’ found in river near King Power Stadium, police cordon off towpath

People fishing with powerful magnets have once again found what are thought to be unexploded devices in the River Soar in Leicester. A group searching a section of the water near Leicester’s King Power Stadium retrieved what they believed to be two Read More …

5 years after IS atrocities, young Yazidis team up to clear explosive hazards in northern Iraq

After five years of massive atrocities committed against the Yazidi minority by Islamic State (IS) militants in Sinjar region, explosive remnants from the anti-IS war still pose a threat to civilians’ lives in the region. Through a project by the Read More …