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Police say two suspects were seen on CCTV at the Chartwell Shopping Centre at around 2.30am today, placing the homemade explosives in groups by the ATM. One detonated and one partially detonated, but five others didn’t detonate at all, police Read More …
Women commandos of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) on Tuesday recovered a powerful 10-kg improvised explosive device (IED), planted by Maoists, in Chhattisgarh”s Dantewada district and later defused it, a police official said. The explosive, packed in a pressure cooker, Read More …
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Military working dogs often scout areas for explosives devices and hazardous materials and assist in rescue operations, but giving dogs the necessary commands to perform these missions can put Soldiers in harm’s way. Augmented reality Read More …
Police discovered another abandoned manufacturing site for improvised explosive devices (IED) in the island town of San Antonio, Northern Samar following extensive intelligence gathering in the area. The 1st Northern Samar Provincial Mobile Force Company led by Major Edwin Oloan Read More …
Two children were injured after a crude bomb they mistook for a toy exploded at Ghop Mahmudur Rahman School ground in Jessore town on Monday evening. The injured are Sapan, 11, son of Bayezid Rahman, and Mehedi, 9, son of Read More …
SANTA RITA, Guam – Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians from Task Force 75 and troop commanders from the Royal Brunei Land Force participated in a real-time, virtual EOD subject matter expert exchange (SMEE), Oct. 6, as part of the 26th annual Read More …
The convoy of Rahmatullah Yarmal, governor of Laghman province, was targeted Monday morning by a blast in the center of Laghman province, local officials confirmed. Asadullah Dawlatzai, the governor’s spokesman, confirmed the blast and said that the governor has survived Read More …
A number of explosive devices have been discovered at a top Scottish golf course. The unexploded military ordance devices were found at Royal Troon Golf Course, as maintenance work was being carried out on the Portland course at the famous Read More …
Dozens of people were wounded on Tuesday in an explosion in the northwest Syrian town of al-Bab, which is under the control of Turkey-backed rebel factions. One of the witnesses said the blast occurred when a large truck bomb went Read More …
Five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by the New People’s Army were recovered by soldiers of the 701st Infantry Brigade in Sitio Cambaugo, Barangay Rajah Cabungsuan, Municipality of Lingig, Surigao del Sur. Maj. Alex Alod, the civil-military operations officer of Read More …
The Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) is alleged to have attempted to deploy two weaponsized drones with C4 or similar type explosives against their rivals—the Carteles Unidos (United Cartels)—in Tepalcatepec, Michoacán on 25 July 2020. The weaponized drones were not Read More …
Sixteen protesters were arrested Saturday night after police gave a dispersal order to a group they said caused “extensive property damage to a business” while marching and later had thrown explosives toward officers. The protest had begun earlier in the Read More …
At least two government employees were killed, and two civilians were wounded in two separate incidents in Kabul on Sunday morning, Kabul police confirmed in a statement. Two government employees were shot and killed in the Tank-e-Chakari area in Kabul’s Read More …
At least two “hardcore” terrorists were killed while another was arrested in an Intelligence Based Operation (IBO) conducted by the security forces in Mir Ali town of North Waziristan on Sunday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. “Security forces conducted Read More …
An improvised explosive device (IED) with a remote control was found by police in the Afghan capital on October 4, the press service of the republic’s interior ministry said. The bomb was planted behind a private school in Kabul in Read More …
Police in Germany said on Saturday a suspicious device found on a regional train overnight near the western city of Cologne was not explosive and did not pose a threat. A statement said bomb specialists investigated the object, which contained Read More …
Law enforcement officers discovered dozens of explosive devices and parts during the execution of a search warrant at a West Road home on Friday. A statement from the offices the Berkshire district attorney and the state fire marshal did not Read More …
Seven Taliban militants were killed in two accidental explosions in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province Friday night, provincial police office confirmed on Saturday. “Three militants tried to plant an improvised explosive device (IED) along a road in Arghandab district Friday night Read More …
The Afghan National Army (ANA) defused 21 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in restive southern Kandahar province on Friday, the country’s Ministry of Defense said Saturday. “The engineering teams of ANA discovered and defused 21 IEDs in Kandahar. The move by Read More …
The global chemical weapons watchdog said Friday that two investigations into alleged attacks in Syria in 2016 and 2018 couldn’t establish that chemicals were used as weapons in either case. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons issued two Read More …