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Cambodia Mine Action Centre (CMAC) director-general Heng Ratana had a meeting with Colombian Ambassador Ana Maria Prieto Abad to discuss training demining experts on Friday at CMAC’s office. Ratana said that they discussed a number of remarkable efforts and commitments Read More …
Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Saturday in the western Afghan city of Herat, it said in a post on Telegram on Sunday. At least six people were killed when a blast ripped through a minivan in Read More …
The U.S. Navy announced Sunday it seized a boat in the Gulf of Oman carrying fertilizer used to make explosives that was caught last year smuggling weapons to Yemen. The British royal navy said it confiscated 1,041 kilograms (2,295 pounds) Read More …
In the run up to the assembly polls in five states, the National Security Guard (NSG) has defused several improvised explosive devices (IEDs). While a court complex in Ludhiana witnessed a deadly blast on December 23, security agencies have been Read More …
Clashes are still going on for the second consecutive day between the fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) with aerial support by the US-led Global Coalition on one Read More …
By all odds, Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu should not be alive to tell his story. Five times, this Somali journalist-turned-government spokesperson has been nearby when a suicide bomber set off explosives. The most recent incident occurred Jan. 16, when a bomber Read More …
Police have charged a 29-year-old man they say detonated a homemade bomb near two busy Leederville restaurants just hours before he allegedly sparked another scare with a second crude explosive device. The man, who was refused police bail, is due Read More …
The Ghana Police Service announced that the explosion took place around 3 p.m. local time in the town of Appiatse, between Bogoso and Bawdie. Buildings and structures were gutted, and debris was scattered in the streets. A preliminary investigation has Read More …
Police recovered on Jan. 19 four anti-personnel mines (APMs) in the mountains of Giporlos, Eastern Samar, stalling possible terrorist attacks by the New People’s Army (NPA). Joint operatives from the Eastern Samar police provincial office and Giporlos police station recovered Read More …
Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria on Thursday said they thwarted a prison break at a detention center holding Islamic State (IS) militants. A spokesperson for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said a car bomb was set off near Geweran Read More …
A car bomb killed one person and wounded five in an eastern Colombian city where illegal armed groups are vying for territorial control, the military said on Thursday. The car bomb exploded close to midnight in Saravena, in Arauca province Read More …
A South Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for posting bomb-making instructions on the internet for people who he believed were Islamic terrorists. Samuel Baptiste, 29, was sentenced Wednesday in Miami federal court, according to court Read More …
At least three people have been killed and over 20 have been injured after a blast in Lahore’s Lohari Gate area. DIG Operations Lahore Dr Muhammad Abid Khan while speaking to media said that over 20 people have been injured Read More …
Four French soldiers were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Burkina Faso, France’s military told AFP Tuesday evening. “(Their) off-road vehicle activated an IED as it left Ouahigouya airport,” the army said in a statement, adding the Read More …
A man was seriously injured on Wednesday when the car he was in exploded in the northern town of Ness Ziona. The explosion happened as the car was stopped at a traffic light on Haminyan Harishon Street. MDA paramedics treated Read More …
A police pickup was slightly damaged by the explosion of an improvised bomb in Chanae district on Tuesday, police said. There were no injuries. Pol Capt Yuthachai Rojsirimontree, a Chanae investigator, said the attack occurred about 3.45pm on the Chanae-Dusongso Read More …
Bomb disposal experts have carried out a controlled explosion after a grenade was found in a city’s river. A man found the device while magnet fishing in the River Cam near Logan’s Meadow in Cambridge at about 18:40 GMT on Read More …
Press Release NP Aerospace is confirmed as one of the main industry partners leading the NSERC* Alliance Program to research and develop new Canadian-made ceramic add-on vehicle armour. The 5-year, $3.2m+ program involves three Canadian universities (University of Alberta, University Read More …
Police Scotland has welcomed the conviction of Nikolaos Karvounakis – after he left an improvised explosive device (IED) in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh in January 2018. At the High Court in Edinburgh today, Wednesday, 19 January 2022, the 35-year-old Greek Read More …
The State Emergency Service EOD teams work all over the country to detect, seize and destroy explosive ordnance from previous conflicts. The day before, bomb disposal units responded to 9 calls, during which 16 explosive objects were seized and destroyed. Read More …