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The UK’s terrorism threat level has been upgraded from “substantial” to “severe”. The move means security chiefs believe that an attack is highly likely but there is no specific intelligence of an imminent incident. The move follows Monday night’s shooting Read More …
The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & naturalize four roadside bombs in Herat province. Meanwhile, ANP detained two Taliban mine planters while they were planting roadside bombs in Gardiz City of Paktiya. The engineering Read More …
A 26-year-old man was injured when a pressure improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxals exploded in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district on Tuesday, police said. The blast occurred near Edasmeta hill under Gangaloor police station area when Ramesh Hemla and Read More …
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Travis Explosive Ordnance Disposal Airmen conduct exercises Oct. 22 and Oct. 28 that simulate real-world situations. The EOD career field specializes in detecting, identifying, recovering, disarming, detonating and disposing of explosive ordnance. Conducting regular Read More …
Surrey Police was called to the discovery of suspected unexploded shells near Whitedown Lane shortly before 10.30am on Monday (November 2). A large cordon was quickly placed around the wooded area and locals spotted multiple police officers at the scene Read More …
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is investigating two incidents involving homemade explosives. The incidents happened just hours apart Monday night. The first went off near Inwood Avenue North and 27th Street North in Lake Elmo. The second happened in the Read More …
Two men and two women have died in a terror attack in Vienna and 15 others, including a police officer, have been seriously injured. Seven of the victims are in a life-threatening condition, news agency APA reported. One suspect, who Read More …
A suicide car bomber was killed by security forces near an outpost of the Afghan Border Force in the northern province of Kunduz before reaching his target on Tuesday morning, the Ministry of Defense said. The incident happened at 7:00 Read More …
Introduction – Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) A VBIED is a vehicle which contains and delivers an explosive device to a target. The vehicle may be old or new, inexpensive or valuable, liveried or plain, blend into most situations and Read More …
Introduction to vehicle borne threats The threats range from vandalism to sophisticated or aggressive attack by determined criminals or terrorists. vehicles offer a convenient method to deliver a bomb, known as a vehicle borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) a vehicle Read More …
A man had five homemade rockets, 27 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and almost 1.5 kilograms of rocket fuel at his Adelaide home because of his “unhealthy hobby” of manufacturing bombs, a court has heard. Lawyers for Phillip John Copley told Read More …
Report for the Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention The Clearing the Mines 2020 report was prepared by Mine Action Review for the Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Read More …
HOHENFELS, Germany – US and multinational forces gathered at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center for a mission rehearsal exercise to hone the skills of the battle group headquarters prior to deployment to Kosovo. KFOR training ranges from crowd riot control Read More …
Federal and municipal authorities say a home-made bomb that injured a 28-year-old Carroll County, Maryland man on Friday – just south of the Pennsylvania line – was dropped off at his home and addressed to him. The 28-year-old unnamed man Read More …
Emergency services were called out to deal with ammunition discovered in a West Norfolk village over the weekend. Officers attended Thornham Road in Methwold on Saturday morning, although a social media post by King’s Lynn Police said there were not Read More …
Over the past week, the units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine inspected almost 30 hectares of territory, seized and disposed of 327 explosives in the Joint Forces Operation area in Donbas. “During the week, October 24-30, the personnel Read More …
A Taliban attack, most likely carried out by a drone, killed at least four security officers in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, according to senior and local Afghan officials, representing what could be the group’s first publicly known use of the Read More …
Even as the world struggles to put the worst of the Covid-19 crisis behind us, its lessons for global problem-solving remain to be applied elsewhere. What has Covid-19 proven so far? Arguably, given talent and money available, in time, medical Read More …
At least three policemen were killed and two others including a civilian were wounded in an explosion near a police checkpoint in the city of Herat on Sunday morning, local officials said. The bomb was placed on a motorbike and Read More …