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At least four officers attached to the 25 task force brigade of operation Hadin Kai have been reportedly wounded after running into an improvised explosive device (IED) in Borno. The IED was allegedly planted by insurgents. Read more… Source: The Read More …
Ukraine should investigate its military’s apparent use of thousands of rocket-fired antipersonnel landmines in and around the eastern city of Izium when Russian forces occupied the area, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch documented numerous cases in which Read More …
Italy’s government has increased security at its diplomatic missions around the globe in response to “a crescendo of terroristic attacks” by an informal anarchist network acting in solidarity with an imprisoned Italian militant, the foreign minister said Tuesday. Foreign Minister Read More …
The opening ceremony of Pakistan-Turkiye Joint Exercise “ATTATURK-XII 2023” was held on Monday at Tarbela. The national anthems of both countries were played at the start of the ceremony, an Inter-Services Public Relations’ (ISPR) news release said. The troops from Read More …
A human rights group says it has documented “numerous cases” of Ukrainian forces firing land mines into territory that was controlled at the time by Russia. In a new report, Human Rights Watch suggests that Ukraine scattered so-called petal mines Read More …
An improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a bus carrying Syrian security personnel injured 15 individuals on the Daraa-Damascus highway. The incident took place as the soldiers were returning from a mission in Daraa province. Read more… Source: Tasnim News Read More …
The FBI and state police are investigating after an explosive device was found at a gas transmission facility in Washington County, investigators said. The homemade incendiary device was found wedged into the door of an industrial gas pipe last week, Read More …
The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) has deployed several groups of demining personnel to five provinces to embark on a new mine clearing effort. CMAC Director General Heng Ratana said recently “Mine-free Cambodia 2025” aims to demine a total of Read More …
An improvised explosive device was on Monday hurled at police in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem. There were no injuries in the incident but a building was damaged. Read more… Source: YnetNews
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hiring officers to work at Syracuse Hancock International, Greater Binghamton and Ithaca Tompkins International Airports and the agency is staffing a series of informational recruitment tables at those three airports in February so that Read More …
Police in Famagusta on Monday arrested a 23-year-old man for illegal explosives possession. They had obtained a warrant to search the suspect’s home, where they found 14 commercial and five homemade firecrackers, three bundles of fuse, gunpowder and various instruments Read More …
A blast inside a mosque shook Peshawar’s Police Lines area on Monday, with officials saying that at least 28 people were killed and 150 were injured. Peshawar Commissioner Riaz Mehsood confirmed the casualties, adding that a rescue operation was under Read More …
A heroic army dog who saved countless lives by sniffing out five IED bombs during a raid against the Taliban has been awarded the animal version of the Victoria Cross. Bass, a Belgian Shepherd, spent six years in the US Read More …
Earlier today, the Iranian Defense Ministry in a statement said that its air defense units have repelled a drone attack on a military workshop in the central city of Isfahan. The ministry stated that one of its workshop complexes had Read More …
Attacks by the M23 Movement rebels and an explosion wounding 18 civilians leave a tense situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a UN spokesman said on Thursday. One clash was in the southeast of Kitchanga, in Read More …
A serving member of the British Army has been charged with terror and explosives offences, the Metropolitan Police said. Daniel Abed Khalife, of Beaconside, Stafford, was charged over two incidents in Staffordshire in August 2021 and January this year. He is Read More …
Security forces led by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) seized more than 160 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during an anti-Naxal operation in Bihar, officials said on January 28. The patrol team first found 13 pressure IEDs and later recovered Read More …
A man suspected of terrorism had a pressure cooker bomb filled with gunpowder outside a hospital, a court heard. Mohammed Farooq, 27, was caught with a bomb containing 13kg of explosives outside a maternity ward in Leeds on January 20. Read More …
Unexploded ordnance and mines in war-torn areas of Helmand threaten the lives of residents of the province who are calling on the government to clear the areas affected by the landmines. Abdul Bari, who lives in helmand’s sarkar area, said Read More …
The police yesterday kicked-off the deployment of bomb sweepers, radiation detectors, frequency jammers and other modern security technologies in troubled regions to prevent criminals from using explosives and other devices to scuttle the general election. The distribution, being coordinated by Read More …