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It’s exactly 50 years ago this week since five people died on a local mountain in what has been described as ‘one of the forgotten atrocities of the Troubles.’ On February 9, 1971, a bomb exploded on Brougher Mountain near Read More …
Shotguns, a rifle and “things that can be used to make a bomb,” were found as 14 people were arrested in Denmark and Germany on suspicion of preparing one or several attacks in the two countries, Danish police said Friday. Read More …
David Timmins was a member of Explosive Device Disposal Team 5, The Royal Logistics Corps – celebrated as ‘The Famous Five’ for their successful record at dismantling deadly devices planted by the Taliban. In 2009 he was critically injured by Read More …
Authorities in Denmark and Germany have arrested a total of 14 people in the last week on suspicion of planning “one or more” terrorist attacks, according to the Danish Security and Intelligence Service. The agency, known as PET, said in Read More …
At least two security forces members were wounded in an explosion in Jalalabad city of Nangarhar province on Thursday afternoon, local officials said. Officials in the governor’s media office said the incident occurred in PD4 near the airport when a Read More …
Forty Six powerful improvised explosive devices (IED), which were planted to harm security forces, were recovered in Garhwa district, police said on Thursday. Based on a tip-off, CRPF and police personnel launched a search operation near Budha Pahad area on Read More …
Armed with four pipe bombs, one handgun and a Ziploc bag full of ammunition, Gregory Ulrich caught the public bus outside his motel Tuesday morning and rode the short trip to Allina Health Clinic. Ulrich shot five clinic workers and Read More …
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre’s (CMAC) National Dog Centre programme plans to breed more than 100 detection dogs in different skills, from explosive detection, environmental protection, security, patrolling and wild animal protection this year. The National Dog Centre programme said Read More …
Some 20 UN peacekeepers serving with the UN Stabilization Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, were injured on Wednesday, after their temporary base came under attack in the restive central region of the country. In a statement, MINUSMA said that the ‘blue Read More …
At least two civilians were killed and five more were wounded in two separate blasts in the eastern province Nangarhar province on Thursday morning, local officials said. A vehicle was hit by a blast in Kama district of the province Read More …
The leader of Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen appears to be still at large despite a United Nations report which claimed he had been under arrest for months, the SITE Intelligence Group and two local tribal leaders said Thursday after he Read More …
Russian mine action specialists have surveyed an area of more than 250 hectares in Nagorno-Karabakh to spot and clear explosive objects, the press service of the Russian emergencies ministry told TASS on Thursday. “Over the period of their mission in Read More …
One person was killed and three others are in critical condition following a shooting Tuesday at a medical clinic in Minnesota where explosives were also found, authorities said. An “active shooter incident” occurred at the Allina Health Urgent Care–Buffalo Crossroads Read More …
An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded at the back of the public market here late on Tuesday (Feb. 9), police said. This was the second IED explosion in the town amid an ongoing mayoral row. Maj. Baltazar Corpuz, town police Read More …
Romania’s state-controlled postal services company Posta Romana will receive two grants worth USD 260,000 to develop projects aimed at improving the quality of services. The projects have been approved and will be financed by the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the Read More …
A Stockton neighborhood was evacuated Wednesday after an explosive went off in a man’s hand. At least eight homemade explosives were found inside the home on Bristol Avenue, not far from Madison Elementary and Madison Park. Natalio Ramirez stood outside Read More …
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kolkata on Wednesday sentenced Kausar, a Bangladeshi national and head of proscribed Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in India to 29 years in jail for his role in the 2014 bomb blast in a rented Read More …
Mohammadzai Kochi, police chief of Kabul’s police district 5 (PD5) was killed in an explosion that targeted his vehicle in downtown Kabul on Wednesday morning, First Vice President Amrullah Saleh confirmed. The blast took place at around 8:55 am local Read More …
A Taliban’s IEDs factory was destroyed and eight Taliban bomb makers, including their commander, were killed during Afghan Commando Forces’ operation in southern Kandahar province, defense official said. Ministry of defense said that the operation conducted in Arghandab district on Read More …
A man who allegedly planted a suspected bomb at the roadside of Wing Fok Center in Fan Ling has been arrested and police believe the crime is protest-related. He was still being detained for questioning as of 9pm last night. Read More …