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A suicide attack targeting police personnel in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has killed at least 25 people and wounded scores more, officials say. The attack targeted police assisting in a drive to clear the Ferozepur Road, a main Read More …
At least 35 people have been killed by a Taliban suicide bomber in the west of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. More than 40 others were wounded, including children, when a car packed with explosives was rammed into a bus carrying government Read More …
Inmates of Okaka Prison in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State detonated an improvised explosive device in an attempted jailbreak on Monday. While six inmates were arrested after the explosion, others may have escaped, according to prison sources. Victor Chiabua, Controller of the Read More …
Mexican intelligence services are sounding the alarm about one of Mexico’s most violent cartels turning to the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as part of their terrorist-style tactics. A leaked report from Mexico’s intelligence service CISEN revealed the ruthless Cartel Read More …
British Warrant Officer Class 1 Kim Hughes, 37, was awarded the George Cross in June 2010 for defusing seven improvised explosive devices (IEDs) without protective clothing. His citation called it the “single most outstanding act of explosive ordnance disposal ever Read More …
An unexploded pipe bomb found in the apartment of a man jailed in connection with the bombing of a Bixby military recruiting office had unusual features, according to court records. A preliminary Federal Bureau of Investigation analysis of one of Read More …
Two activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) alleged to be involved in attacks on Chinese nationals in the city were among 10 suspects arrested by the Sindh Rangers on Wednesday. A spokesman for the paramilitary force said a Read More …
Law enforcement has long relied on canines to sniff out dangerous explosives, but large discrepancies exist between individual dogs’ performances that are at least partially attributable to training differences. Now, analytical chemistry may help give the dogs’ powerful sense of Read More …
The Navy’s special forces and the Defense Department’s tech innovation unit are looking at commercially developed gear to counter the growing threat of weaponized consumer drones on the battlefield. The DOD’s Navy Special Warfare Command signed a $1.5 million deal Read More …
A Peshmerga fighter slowly worked his around the concrete shell of a half-constructed home in northern Iraq when something in the rubble alerted his attention. After flagging the spot and alerting the other soldiers with him, another Peshmerga fighter specialized Read More …
