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An attack on Chad’s presidential palace left 18 assailants dead and six in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded, state media reported Thursday. The attack on Wednesday night occurred while Chadian President Mahamat Deby Itno was inside the Read More …
The IDF on Thursday made a surprising announcement that it is continuing some attack missions against Syrian military capabilities and not merely holding onto buffer zones, which it seized in early December when the Assad regime suddenly fell. In early Read More …
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the National Police have detained two more suspects involved in the terrorist attack in Dnipro on 14 December 2024 which killed one and injured four people, including two police officers. The SSU reports Read More …
Cambodia recorded 49 landmines and explosive remnant of war (ERW) casualties in 2024, up 53 percent from 32 in the year before, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. “Twelve people were killed, 29 injured, and eight amputated due to landmine and Read More …
Iraq has completed the construction of 400 kilometres of a 615-kilometre concrete wall along its border with Syria, the head of the country’s Security Media Cell, Tahsin Al-Khafaji, said yesterday. Speaking to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), Al-Khafaji explained that Read More …
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, mine clearance experts have demined 35,000 sq km of Ukrainian territory, with 17,000 sq km cleared in 2024. Yuliia Svyrydenko, Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy said: “As Read More …
The torpedo bomb that got caught in the fishing gear of a trawler was pulled out into Eyjafjörður this evening and placed in a place where it will be destroyed by publication. This is stated in a statement by the Read More …
Police have carried out a controlled explosion after a “suspicious item” was found at a house in south Manchester. Officers made the discovery after raiding a property in Fencot Drive, Longsight, at about 7.50am today (Wednesday). A bomb disposal unit Read More …
The UAE has decided to add 19 individuals and entities to its Local Terrorist List for their links to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organisation. This decision has been made under Resolution No. (1) of 2025 issued by the UAE Cabinet, Read More …
Finland has for the first time delivered assistance from an EU-funded rescEU stockpile to a country that has requested assistance, said an official government press release. This week, a truckload of personal protective equipment and chemical detectors was delivered to Read More …
Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of Japan, pleaded guilty in Manhattan, New York, today to conspiring with a network of associates to traffic nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, from Burma to other countries, as well as to international narcotics trafficking Read More …
Palauan Sharla Paules surveys the contaminated ground of her lush tropical home island of Peleliu, still littered with WWII munitions 80 years after its liberation from the Japanese. She recalls as a child her grandmother warning the land was poisoned Read More …
Police sappers (bomb disposal personnel) removed the remnants of an old rocket discovered at a school in Kfar Saba, the police announced Tuesday. An initial investigation revealed that while students were playing in the school’s sandlot, they began digging and Read More …
Police found a six-page manifesto on Matthew Livelsberger’s phone and said he used ChatGPT to plan his New Year’s Day bombing at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. A few of the entries posted in the application included “How Read More …
Three people in their 20s have been arrested after an explosion at a property near Valdemarsro in Malmö’s outskirts. Someone has placed some kind of homemade bomb, says Thomas Paulsson, officer on duty. No one was in the residence, a Read More …
Eleven Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Oman, marking yet another detainee transfer from the military prison in the final days of the Biden administration. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin notified Congress in September 2023 of his intent Read More …
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has expressed gratitude to Iceland for its recent contribution to producing Ukrainian weapons under the Danish model. Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday, 7 January. During their meeting, Sybiha thanked Read More …
Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) Vietnam has kicked off the new year with a focused Quality Management Refresher Training for its teams in Quang Tri Province. Conducted over two days from January 2-3, 2025, this training marked the formal resumption of Read More …
The outlawed armed group Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, has issued a warning to the Pakistani army, stating that it will continue targeting security personnel and expand its attacks to the military’s business interests. In a statement issued Read More …
A growing number of police officers have had enough of the way they become targets during the New Year festivities and are accusing the government of failing to act to end the chaos, the AD reported on Monday afternoon. They Read More …