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The U.S. military is on track to pull all of its forces out of Iraq by the end of September, officials said Wednesday, marking the end of a presence that started with the 2003 invasion against Saddam Hussein. Washington and Baghdad agreed in 2024 Read More …
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service has asked NATO’s disaster-response co-ordination centre to help supply equipment for humanitarian demining and the transport and disposal of explosive ordnance. The request was submitted via NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC), which circulates appeals Read More …
Sri Lanka’s mine-clearance programme has been highly successful, according to the International Mine-Clearance Ambassador Rosamund Pike. Pike made the remarks during a meeting with the Housing, Construction and Water Supply Minister Dr Susil Ranasinghe. She commended Sri Lanka’s mine-clearance efforts, Read More …
A parked car was extensively damaged in an explosion in Paphos in the early hours of Wednesday, with police investigating the incident as a suspected bomb attack. The explosion occurred at around 3.15am on Santorinis Street. Police said the vehicle belongs to Read More …
The head of military intelligence for eastern Libya’s Libyan National Army was killed on Monday when an explosive device detonated in his car outside his home in the Hawari area of Benghazi. Brigadier Fowzi Mansouri was killed in the evening Read More …
Two young men from the town of Jayrud were killed early Tuesday after a landmine exploded while they were riding a motorcycle near al-Nasiriyah Airbase in the northeastern countryside of Damascus. Mohammad Anwar Saleh Nasser, director of the Emergency and Disaster Read More …
The military plant in the village of Belitsa near Tryavna remains under surveillance after explosions at an ammunition depot. A fire broke out in the area, which required firefighters to be on duty at the site overnight. The flames in Read More …
Three Iraqi soldiers, including an officer, were wounded on Tuesday when an improvised explosive device targeted a security force in an agricultural area in Daquq district, south of Kirkuk province in northern Iraq. A security source said the explosive device Read More …
Syrian security forces have arrested a nine-member cell affiliated with Daesh in the southern province of Quneitra, authorities said Sunday, as a stepped-up campaign targets the militant group’s networks and supply lines. The Internal Security Forces, working with the General Read More …
Pakistan security forces have killed five militants during an intelligence-based operation in Balochistan. Security sources said the operation targeted Fitna al Hindustan militants in Panjgur. The operation took place in the Sarkini and Chedgi areas. It formed part of the Read More …
New Delhi [India], August 9 (ANI): The Indian Navy-US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Exercise 2026 is scheduled to be conducted at Southern Naval Command, Kochi, from August 10 to 14, the Indian Navy said in a statement on Sunday. Read More …
Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency has said it arrested nine suspected Al-Shabaab members who were allegedly involved in planning attacks intended to be carried out in Mogadishu and surrounding areas. The suspects had been operating covertly in the Garasbaaley Read More …
A car bomb exploded Saturday in southwestern Colombia, the army said, a day after conservative political neophyte Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as Colombia’s new president. The army alleged the attack was carried out by two dissident groups of the now-defunct Revolutionary Read More …
Troops of Operation Fansan Yamma (OPFY) on a patrol near Maradun in Zamfara State have intercepted a 35-year-old terrorists’ collaborator, and recovered N5.302 million and mobile phone from him. “Preliminary interrogation showed the suspect was allegedly delivering the funds on Read More …
A 35-year-old man lost an arm after a suspected improvised explosive device exploded in his hands in Mandera Town on Friday evening, triggering a security response. The blast occurred at about 6:30pm in the Bula Buruburu area, near Holland Sports Read More …
Syria’s Internal Security Forces announced on Friday they neutralized two ISIS militants who were planting an explosive device in the Sayyidah Zaynab area of the Damascus countryside during a nighttime patrol on roads leading to military barracks and government facilities. In a statement, the Internal Security Forces Read More …
Director of Damascus Countryside Health Dr. Tawfiq Hasaba confirmed that the final toll from Thursday’s explosion in the city of Jaramana, Damascus Countryside, reached 14 injuries, including seven people who were transferred to Damascus Hospital, stressing that no fatalities were recorded. Among Read More …
At least six people were injured, one of them critically, after the vehicle they were travelling in struck a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) in what is suspected to be an Al Shabaab attack in Mandera County. The incident occurred Read More …
At least 308 people abducted in different attacks in the northern part of Nigeria were rescued, the country’s president said Wednesday. Those rescued include 163 people abducted from Woro community in Kaiama area of Kwara state in February, and 145 people kidnapped Read More …
Two reservist soldiers were killed, and four were seriously wounded after being hit by an explosive device in the southern Lebanon town of Majdal Zoun yesterday, the IDF announces. The slain troops are named as: Maj. (res.) Harel Birenstock, 34, Read More …