Israel: Woman killed by car bomb in Ramle
A woman was killed by a car bomb in the central city of Ramle on Sunday. A second woman and her baby who were passing by at the time of the explosion were injured. It was the fourth death this Read More …
Category: News December 2021
DRC: Suicide bomber kills at least five in eastern city of Beni
At least six people have died in a suicide bomb attack on a crowded restaurant in the eastern city of Beni. Police prevented the bomber from entering the building, but he blew himself up at the entrance killing himself and Read More …
Jammu and Kashmir: IED expert among four militants killed by security forces in Pulwama district
Four militants, including an IED expert, were killed in twin encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. While two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were killed in Shopian district, two Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind ultras were gunned down in Read More …
India: Ludhiana Court Bomber Wanted To Scare Judges, Lawyers
A former policeman who was suspected to be the bomber in a court complex explosion in Punjab’s Ludhiana wanted to scare judges and lawyers as he was facing a drugs case, the police said today. The suspect, Gagandeep Singh, was Read More …
Pakistan: Bomb goes off in Bannu
A bomb went off along the Bannu-Miramshah Road in Bakkakhel area of Bannu on Friday. However, no one was hurt in the blast. The road is usually used by convoys of security forces. An official source said an improvised explosive Read More …
Somali army foils bomb attacks by Al-Shabaab
Further details are available from a planned operation by the Somali National Army (SNA) in the Lower Shabelle region in southwestern Somalia. The operation was carried out in the areas of Shamgare, Jowhar Yareey, and Mubarak, which are all under Read More …
Mechanical Equipment in IED Clearance: Observations from Iraq
Mechanical equipment has been in the inventory of conventional military forces for the purposes of military engineering—including demining—since the Second World War. The integration of mechanical equipment into UNMAS Iraq clearance activities may have therefore seemed a natural evolution from Read More …
Egypt: ISIS in Sinai claims responsibility for IED attack on pro-government vehicle
ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula claimed responsibility for an IED attack that targeted a pro-government militia vehicle, south of Rafah, NBC reported on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties in the attack. In recent days, the Read More …
Terrorists’ IED Attacks Make the UN Mission in Mali Even Deadlier in 2021
The world’s deadliest peacekeeping mission has recorded a twofold increase in fatalities among its troops from improvised explosive devices this year, reinforcing what analysts say: more sophisticated attacks are being carried out by jihadists in Mali and elsewhere in the Read More …
First Swiss prison sentence dished out for blowing up ATMs
The 31-year-old Romanian was extradited from Austria to Switzerland after police found his DNA at the scene of the 2019 crime in the eastern canton of St Gallen. The robbers took CHF126,600 ($134,000) in cash and caused CHF100,000 in damage, Read More …
India: 2 Dead In Blast Inside Ludhiana Court Complex
Two people were killed and four seriously injured in a blast inside a court complex in Ludhiana in Punjab this afternoon. The blast reportedly took place at 12:22 pm inside a bathroom on the second floor of the building. The Read More …
Afghanistan: Suicide bomber killed at Kabul passport office gate
A suicide bomber was killed at the gate of a passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, a government spokesman said, and several people were injured in the blast, according to unconfirmed reports. A spokesman for Afghanistan’s interior Read More …
UN Security Council extends AMISOM mandate
The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) by three months, giving time for talks to overhaul the mission. As the situation in Somalia remains perilous with Al-Shabaab posing a potent Read More …
Pakistan: Two TTP members arrested in Okara
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claims to have arrested two alleged members of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from the city on Tuesday. According to the first information report (FIR), four CTD personnel, acting on a tip-off, went to check movement Read More …
Connecticut: Greenwich students learn how mine detection dogs make ‘this planet a safer place’
Sammy, a Belgian shepherd, paid a visit to local students recently as part of the Marshall Legacy Institute’s annual CHAMPS presentation on the importance of her former work as a mine detection dog. Sammy, who retired from her work in Read More …
French army claims to have killed suspect in 2020 murders of aid workers in Niger
The French army says that it has killed one of the suspects in last year’s murder of eight people including six young French aid workers in the Koure National Park in Niger, The Islamic State armed group had claimed the Read More …
Philippines: 22 bombs found at a Zamboanga construction site
A total of 22 bombs were found at a construction site in Barangay Cabatangan in Zamboanga City last Monday, December 20. A Police Regional Office-9 report said 52-year-old Alex Glinogo y Cruz, a Cabatangan resident, was digging at a construction Read More …
India: Meghalaya Police recovers live grenade, ammunition, 2 IEDs in separate operations in West Garo Hills
Meghalaya Police on Monday evening carried out two separate counter-insurgency operations in the West Garo Hills district and recovered a grenade, ammunition and two IEDs. During an operation, the Meghalaya Police in West Garo Hills recovered one live grenade and Read More …
‘Everything Living Is Dying’: Environmental Ruin in Modern Iraq
As far back as 2005, the United Nations had estimated that Iraq was already littered with several thousand contaminated sites. Five years later, an investigation by The Times, a London-based newspaper, suggested that the U.S. military had generated some 11 Read More …
Philippines: Boy dies, teen hurt in Zamboanga City explosion
A 12-year-old boy was killed while a teenager was wounded in an explosion Monday in a coastal barangay, this city. Lawisan said that based on the information they gathered from the third victim who was unscathed, the children found a Read More …