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A suspected explosion involving improvised fireworks left three individuals injured, including two minors, in Rosario Village, Barangay Lagao, General Santos City, on Monday afternoon. The incident occurred at approximately 5:20 PM along Molave Street when the improvised fireworks were reportedly Read More …
A hit-and-run attack at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai killed 35 people and severely injured 43, local police said on Tuesday. The incident happened at 7:48 p.m. (1148 GMT) on Monday, when a small off-road Read More …
As of today, 58 States and two territories remain contaminated with anti-personnel mines, and the need for focused and unwavering commitment to get all of them over the finish line by completing clearance is as important as ever. In 2023, Read More …
In the rugged and scenic mountains of remote villages in Laos, children and farmers contend with a legacy of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) threatening their lives for over 40 years. These leftover war remnants from the horrific Vietnam War Read More …
A total of 123 crude bomb-like objects in 10 bags were found in roadside bushes in Damudya upazila of Shariatpur yesterday morning. Hafizur Rahman Milon, officer-in-charge of Damudya Police Station, said locals first noticed the bags in the bushes in Read More …
In a week-long joint operation, the Indian Army, Assam Rifles, Manipur Police, and other security forces recovered 29 weapons, Improvised Explosive Device (IED), ammunition, and other war-like stores (WLS) from several districts of Manipur, the Ministry of Defence said in Read More …
The US military has carried out strikes against targets in Syria in what the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said was a response to recent attacks on US forces by “Iranian-aligned targets” in the country. CENTCOM’s commander General Michael Erik Read More …
Several airlines have suspended flights to Haiti after a passenger plane from the US was hit by gunfire as it tried to land in Port-au-Prince. Spirit Airlines Flight 951 from Fort Lauderdale in Florida was diverted to the neighbouring Dominican Read More …
Sindh Home Minister Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar on Monday announced the arrest of three terrorists, including the mastermind behind the deadly blast near the Karachi airport that killed two Chinese nationals among three people. “Javed alias Sami, who is the Read More …
The HALO Trust, the international landmine clearance organisation, has called for global recommitment to the Landmine Ban Treaty following a 10 per cent drop in the number of anti-personnel mines cleared in 2023. The steep fall in landmines cleared is Read More …
A man has been charged in connection with the explosion of an ultra low emission zone (Ulez) camera in south-east London. Kevin Rees, 62, of Harcourt Avenue, Sidcup, was arrested by counter-terror police after a low-sophistication improvised explosive device (IED) Read More …
A 63-year-old man who the court was told “has a keen interest in bomb-making as a hobby” has been sentenced to six years in prison for manufacturing explosives and having firearms and ammunition at his home near Sneem, Co Kerry Read More …
Yet another life was lost to a landmine when it exploded beneath a farmer’s tractor in Trapaing Prasat district on Saturday. Prime Minister Hun Manet expressed regret over the accident, said Ly Tuch, First Vice-President of the Cambodian Mine Action Read More …
An Azerbaijani serviceman was injured after stepping on a landmine in the Goranboy district on November 10. The incident occurred near the village of Gulustan, where the mine was reportedly planted by Armenian armed forces. The Ministry of Defense confirmed Read More …
Imo Police Command has alleged that two young men, suspected to be members of the proscribed freedom fighting members of Indigenous People of Biafra,IPOB and Eastern Security Network, ESN, has been killed in Orlu while carrying an improvised explosive device Read More …
A federal jury has convicted an operative of a Somalian terrorist organization of conspiring to kill Americans in an attack modeled after the Sept. 11 hijackings. Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 34, was convicted in New York on Monday of six charges, Read More …
Russian troops have suffered significant losses during assaults due to minefields established in the Kursk Oblast by Ukrainian forces, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukraine’s operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast launched on 6 August Read More …
The United States and the United Kingdom have launched air strikes in Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa, a television station run by the Houthi rebel group has reported, with the Pentagon saying it targeted advanced weapons storage facilities in the Read More …
The Konark Corps of the Indian Army defused a bomb, which was spotted by a shepherd, in a village near the international border in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district. Army sources said that the jawans connected the bomb with wires and defused Read More …
Army bomb disposal experts were called to a home in Finglas last night after a device was found shortly before 10.30pm. A spokesperson confirmed that gardaí were alerted to an incident at Hampton Wood Drive in Finglas, Dublin 11. “A Read More …