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A controlled explosion has been carried out a railway station this afternoon. Police officers and a bomb disposal unit were spotted at Garston train station, and the station was taped off. The British Transport Police says it received reports of Read More …
CAMP SCHWAB, OKINAWA, Japan – A Marine shouts, “Fire in the hole!” The proclamation leads to a moment of stillness; silence fills what will soon be a blast site. A loud “whump” precedes an earth-shaking shockwave. Dirt lifts from the Read More …
Six members of Somalia’s Danab special forces were killed in an al-Shabaab bomb attack late Monday, security forces in the Horn of Africa nation confirmed to local media. A vehicle ferrying US-trained soldiers ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) Read More …
A far-right extremist has been jailed for possessing explosives and terrorist documents. Filip Golon Bednarczyk, 26, denied planning an attack or attempting to make a bomb and claimed he was acting on “curiosity borne out of boredom”. Giving evidence at Read More …
ANP discovered and neutralized eight roadside bombs after several hours of efforts & point to point search operations in Kabul & Nimruz provinces. The terrorists had planted the bombs to target the innocent civilians. ANP discovered & neutralized eight roadside Read More …
The Training and Development Office of the Criminal Investigation Department in the Central Region held a closing ceremony for the training program for the capacity building in the field of removing explosive devices. The program had been implemented within the Read More …
Troops of Operation Fire Ball in the North-East have neutralised 23 terrorists and captured one Improvised Explosive Device (IED) specialist in Ngamdu, near Maiduguri. Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, Acting Director, Defense Media Operations, who disclosed this on Tuesday said that some Read More …
Two bomb blasts killed at least seven people and wounded scores on Tuesday in areas of northwest Syria near the Turkish border and under heavy Turkish influence, witnesses and police sources said. Five people were killed and 20 wounded, some Read More …
Nearly four months after the massive explosion that left over 6,500 injured, more than 200 dead, and damaged over 300,000 homes in Beirut, both citizens and international observers still don’t know what caused the blast. With the Lebanese government tight-lipped Read More …
The Philippines called for the strengthening of a normative framework under the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) to address the continued use of mines by armed non-state actors. Signed in 1997, the APMBC, otherwise known as the Mine Ban Treaty, Read More …
Security officials have foiled a terrorist attack on Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) police station in the provincial capital by killing a would-be suicide bomber at its gate on Tuesday. As per details, the suspect tried to enter the police station Read More …
Israeli security forces on Sunday foiled an attempted terrorist attack against Israeli soldiers in Judea and Samaria, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit confirmed. The incident took place near al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian village southeast of Jenin. According to the IDF, “during routine Read More …
An officer of the Russian peacekeeping contingent was wounded in a mine explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh during the search for those killed in the armed conflict, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday. Also, an Azerbaijani officer was killed and four representatives Read More …
Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested four persons from Dhaka’s Uttara and Turag areas in connection with recovering 31 crude bombs from Uttara. The arrestees are: Sohrab Hossain (21), Tawhidul Islam (22), Selim Mia (32), and Uzzal Mia (24). Read More …
More than 26,000 children have been killed or injured in Afghanistan since 2005 – an average of five youngsters every day, a charity has found. Save The Children said the statistics highlight the “appalling cost of the decades-long conflict on Read More …
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) is working on emergency deployment in Nagorno-Karabakh and plans to launch a mission to assess the needs in early December, a spokesperson for UN Peacekeeping said on Monday. “The United Nations Mine Action Read More …
Russia has arrested a police colonel on terrorism charges over the 2010 Moscow metro bombings. Gazi Isaev, the head of the Russian Interior Ministry for the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, was detained on Monday, according to a statement by Russia’s Read More …
Iraq’s Security Media Cell said on Saturday (November 21) that three people were killed and five others were wounded in an attack and ambush launched by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Saladin’s al-Baiji district. An improvised explosive device (IED) went Read More …
The vehicle of a member of peace committee was attacked with an improvised explosive device (IED) in the district on Saturday. However, no casualty was reported in the explosion triggered by the IED. The police said that unknown militants targeted Read More …
Two magnetic IED explosions happened in Kabul on Saturday morning, leaving a security force member, according to police. The first explosion happened in Hese Awal area in the north of Kabul at around 6:10 am local time in which a Read More …