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Tripoli, 06 July 2020 – Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General (ASRSG) for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Stephanie Williams expresses her deep sadness and regret over the death of two humanitarian mine Read More …
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) at the weekend said troops clashed 17 times with insurgents in the North-east in the month of June. The clashes resulted in the death of 75 insurgents and an army officer while 35 captives were liberated. Read More …
In a move that surprised many, in early June 2020 amid the Philippines’ COVID-19 pandemic challenges, President Rodrigo Duterte certified as “urgent” the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. In just a matter of days, the House of Representatives dispensed with any Read More …
HaD is avowedly loyal to Al-Qaeda and its leadership is dominated by non-Syrian Al-Qaeda veterans. Hurras al-Din (HaD), Arabic for “Guardians of Religion”, are hardcore Al-Qaeda elements who broke away from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the strongest insurgent group in Read More …
In the first article of a new column series from the Airforwarders Association, executive director Brandon Fried outlines how we can approach the latest US all-cargo screening mandate, due to come into effect in June 2021, without risking our safety. Read More …
At least three policemen were killed and three others were wounded in a roadside mine blast in the Kohistan district of Herat on the Herat-Islam Qala highway on Saturday, local officials said. The incident happened around 100 km away from Read More …
Two people in a house in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district were killed in the early hours of Saturday after a stockpile of crude bombs exploded. The incident occurred in Ahiron Ghoshpara in the Suti police station area of Jangipur subdivision. Read More …
he NATO called on the Taliban group to decrease violence as the country is going towards an intra-Afghan peace dialogue. Stefano Pontecorvo, the NATO Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan in a video message published on his twitter account has said Read More …
A CRPF personnel was injured in a low-intensity improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Pulwama district of south Kashmir on Sunday, police said. State forces also detected and defused another IED in the district later, a police official said. The Read More …
Moga Police has arrested three men for their involvement in the June 30 blast case outside a food stall. The explosive device, that went off in Moga on Tuesday, was made and planted by three people, including two brothers, to Read More …
Seven years of Harvard University research into bulletproof armor began with a simple question of how to protect soldiers’ private parts from blast wounds. The problem inspired Harvard professor Kit Parker, a veteran of four tours in Afghanistan, to begin Read More …
The Kabul Police foiled militants bid to detonate a remote-controlled bomb in the city, the Kabul Police Headquarters said. According to a statement released by Kabul Police, the militants had planted a remote-controlled bomb on a roadside in Shewaki area Read More …
At least five people were killed and more than eight others wounded when a government security checkpoint was bombed in Baidoa, Somalia’s administrative capital of Southwest State, on Saturday, witnesses and security officials said. Officials in Baidoa, about 250 kilometers Read More …
olice on Saturday urged people to immediately alert authorities if they come across suspicious items after a grenade was found in the yard of a house in the Larnaca district. According to the police, the grenade was found on Friday Read More …
An explosion ripped through a vehicle of the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces in Kabul city earlier today, the security sources said. According to the officials in Kabul Police Headquarters, a magnetic bomb planted in a police vehicle went off Read More …
One of the major tactical developments during the war against ISIS in Syria and Iraq has been the deployment of hobbyist and even homemade remote controlled aircraft—often referred to as “drones”—armed with small explosive charges. During the Battle of Mosul Read More …
The EU Terrorism Situation and Trend 2020 report refers to the killing of Lyra McKee in April 2019 and the discovery of a bomb last September. The law enforcement agency said the UK reported ‘55 security-related incidents by Dissident Republican Read More …
The bomb squad, the dog squad and the army have been called in after forensic cleaners found explosives in a shed at a house in Kew. Gelignite and a small mortar were among the items found in an overflowing and Read More …
New bombs are discovered almost every year. For the most part, World War II left the U.S. and Canadian homelands physically untouched. There were a few incidents of sabotage and a few small-scale attacks, such as a Japanese submarine’s shelling Read More …
A police team killed Wednesday in a brief shootout in Shariff Aguak town in Maguindanao four Dawlah Islamiya members out on a bombing mission. Personnel of the Maguindanao provincial police were forced to neutralize the four bandits riding together a Read More …