Norwegian citizen arrested in Hungary for alleged extremist plot

Police have arrested a Norwegian citizen in Hungary on suspicion that he was planning an extremist attack modeled after a 2011 massacre in Norway that killed 77 people, authorities said Tuesday. The National Investigation Office of the Hungarian police said Read More …

EXU-1 Conducts Maritime Post-Blast Investigation Course

U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Expeditionary Exploitation Unit One (EXU-1) alongside the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) section conducted a maritime post-blast investigation course at Naval Air Station (NAS) Key West, Florida, June 2-9. The course focused on Read More …

Azerbaijan: ICRC reveals number of mine victims over past 30 years

About 3,350 people have become victims of mines in Azerbaijan over the past 30 years, Trend reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) revealed the above figures in its Facebook publication. The ICRC also said that together with Read More …

Kenya: Three KDF soldiers killed in suspected Al-Shabab attack

Three Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) soldiers were killed, and more than 10 others injured when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device Sunday in coastal Lamu County. The incident comes a few days after eight KDF soldiers were killed Read More …

Ancient Russian T-54 tank turned into rolling bomb explodes in massive shockwave

Russia appears to now be packing nearly antique T-54/55 tanks with explosives and pointing them at Ukrainian positions on the battlefield, before detonating them under remote control in an attempt to blast their way through. A recent video seems to Read More …

Israel: 8 IDF soldiers wounded in Jenin gun battle, armored vehicle bombed

Eight IDF soldiers were wounded in the terrorist hotbed of Jenin on Monday after an arrest operation turned into a shootout that lasted nearly eight hours. The forces were ambushed by gunfire as they began to leave, with an Israeli Read More …

India: 5 children injured in crude bomb blast in West Bengal

Five children aged between 7 and 11 years were injured when a crude bomb went off in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Monday, a police officer said. The incident took place inside a mango garden at Mathpara in Jangipur around Read More …

Afghanistan: Mine explosion kills 1 in Wardak province

A provincial police officer in Wardak province said one person was killed in a mine explosion on Sunday. According to the official, an explosive device concealed amid rubbish exploded on Saturday afternoon while an Afghan street worker was collecting trash Read More …

Jammu and Kashmir: Large cache of rusted explosive material seized underneath rocks in Poonch

Security forces on Sunday dug out a large quantity of rusted explosive material, including 11 RPG rounds and grenades, from underneath rocks in a forested area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said. The officials said the explosive material, Read More …

Bangladesh: Bomb-like object found in Natore ICT Institute principal’s room defused

A team of Counter Terrorism and Bomb Disposal Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) defused a crude bomb found in front of Government Bangabandhu Technical and ICT Institute principal’s room in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore early Sunday. Earlier, on Saturday Read More …

Britain gets new elite counter terror troops to support police and MI5

Military chiefs have formed a new domestic counter-terror unit to offset pressure on Britain’s Special Forces. Razor Squadron is the first new special operations team to be established since the creation of the Special Forces Support Group at the start Read More …

India: Three policemen injured in IED explosion during training at Chhattisgarh

Three police constables suffered injuries after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded during a training exercise at a jungle warfare college in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, police said on June 17. The incident took place on Friday when the training session Read More …

Bangladesh: IED planted by separatist group KNF kills soldier

A soldier has died in the explosion of an improvised explosive device planted by the Kuki-Chin National Front, an ethnic separatist group. Army personnel were on their way to Painum Para to distribute drinkable water and oral rehydration packets. The Read More …

Cambodian war mines removed from Thai border

Mines dating back to the Cambodian Civil War five decades ago were successfully removed from Thai territory along the border with Cambodia on Friday. The Thailand Mine Action Centre (TMAC) of the Royal Thai Army was alerted via social media Read More …

Philippines: 2 persons planted IED on lawyer’s vehicle in Davao

Police are looking for two individuals who might have planted an improvised explosive device on the vehicle of lawyer Alberto Magulta that exploded outside his office along Ecowest Drive in Ecoland on Thursday morning. Maj. Rose Aquilar, station commander of Read More …

Thailand: Four police, villager hurt in Yala roadside bombing

Four police officers providing protection for teachers and one villager were hurt in a roadside bomb attack in Raman district of Yala province on Thursday morning. The blast occurred on a local road at Na Toey village Moo 3 in Read More …

Ukraine: Sweden sending 250 mine detectors to search for landmines scattered after Kakhovka dam flooding

Sweden has sent 250 mine detectors to Ukraine to eliminate the consequences of Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka dam, Sweden’s Ministry of Defense reported on June 14. The equipment sent by Stockholm was intended for civilian mine clearance, said Swedish Read More …