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When Lukas F. walks onto the site of an abandoned army barracks in the summer of 2021 as part of his training to be a terrorist, he is 16 years old, a slender boy with dark hair. The site is Read More …
t least two children were killed and 10 others sustained injuries in an explosion that took place in Zabul province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, 26 July. An official has claimed that a group of children found an object which appeared Read More …
Five teenage students were injured yesterday after a ping pong bomb exploded in the classroom of a technical college in the central province of Ayutthaya. One of the students was carrying the bomb inside a school bag and when he Read More …
Dogs might be using their highly-sensitive noses to ‘see’ as well as to smell, a new study suggests. A team of vets, including Dr Philippa Johnson from Cornell University in New York, discovered that vision and smell are actually connected Read More …
At least 15 people have been killed on the second day of anti-United Nations protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s turbulent northeastern region, in attacks UN chief Antonio Guterres said could constitute a ‘war crime’. Protests erupted on Read More …
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – U.S. Army and British Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians honed their lifesaving and mission-enabling skills on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. American Soldiers from the 722nd Ordnance Company (EOD) trained with British EOD troops from the 821st Read More …
Militant Islamist violence in the Sahel is accelerating faster than in any other region in Africa. After nearly a decade of conflict, violent events in the Sahel (specifically Burkina Faso, Mali, and western Niger) are surging—with a 140-percent increase since Read More …
Seventeen Marines, Airmen and Sailors gathered at Aberdeen Proving Ground for 12 days in June to show how advanced software working in concert with advanced Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) technologies can create a next-generation threat warning and protection Read More …
Earlier this morning, at about 02:00, a security officer responded to a panic alarm at a filling station in Meloding. Upon arrival at the scene, he noticed a group of about 10 heavily armed men and an ATM that was Read More …
His Majesty Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia, and Her Majesty Queen-Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk have just made a donation of $1.5 million to the government to be allocated for demining operations to reach the goal of mine-free Cambodia by 2025. Read More …
At least eight repentant Boko Haram terrorists were killed while one injured by an undetonated Improvised Explosive Device(IED), in the North East of Bama local Government area of Borno state on Monday. Sources said the repentant terrorists, who sneaked out Read More …
A remnant of war, an unexploded mortar shell, which exploded on Monday, 25th July, killed at least two children in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan. Agha Wali Quraishi, the Taliban’s spokesman for the police chief office in Uruzgan province Read More …
Defence specialists called on by UK police to dispose of suspected bombs are being equipped with next-generation digital protection against remotely-triggered devices. The life-saving technology interrogates the airwaves for remote control signals that may be attempting to detonate an explosive Read More …
A team of security officers narrowly escaped death after two of their vehicles ran over an explosive device along Fino- Sheikh Barrow road in Mandera. The team was driving from Fino towards Sheikh Barrow when their vehicles were hit by Read More …
The Army will splash out up to €1.35million on a new landmine clearing machine amid calls from Ukraine for Irish help in removing hidden Russian explosives. The mine clearance vehicle will be used by the Defence Forces to deal with Read More …
Ground Self-Defense Force bomb disposal unit defused and removed a 1-ton live explosive from the wartime era that forced West Japan Railway Co. to suspend operations on two lines in Osaka Prefecture for three hours on July 24. The company Read More …
Videos circulating on social media purport to show thermite munitions raining down from the sky in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine. Since April, Russia has concentrated on capturing the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces that make up the Donbas region, Read More …
While doing agricultural work in a field near Kharkiv, a tractor was killed after his vehicle drove over an IED. This was reported on Telegram by the press service of the State Emergency Service’s local office, Ukrinform saw. “On July Read More …
The First World War ended 104 years ago, but thanks to wildfires burning the European continent, echoes of the Great War are being heard. And seen. And nearly killing firefighters because bombs left over from the conflict are blowing up. Read More …
Military officers drawn from the African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and Somali National Army (SNA) have concluded four days’ training on ways to mitigate threats posed by Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDs). With the Al-Shabaab losing ground and on Read More …