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Indian scientists have developed a thermally stable and cost-effective electronic polymer-based sensor for rapidly detecting nitro-aromatic chemicals used in high-energy explosives. The detection of explosives without destroying them is essential for protection, and criminal investigations, minefield remediation, military applications, ammunition Read More …
Cpl. Jeremiah Welch was waiting to go inside. Someone had broke into a mine operation office and left a suspicious device strapped to the manager’s chair. It was his job to go in and check it out, while the rest Read More …
An under construction girls middle school was damaged in a blast in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) Tank district late Tuesday night. Talking to The Express Tribune, District Police Officer (DPO) Tank, Sahibzada Sajjad said the Government Girls Middle School Kalu Parangi located Read More …
FORT IRWIN, California – A seasoned U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician earned the Master EOD Badge on Fort Irwin, California, Sept. 14. Staff Sgt. Gabriel M. Leon from the 759th Ordnance Company (EOD) earned the badge after eight years Read More …
The United States has donated vehicles, communication equipment and bomb disposal protective gear to the Philippine National Police (PNP) in a bid to improve the country’s operational capability against terrorism. Among those donated were laptop computers, 4 units of Ford Read More …
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somalia’s National Army (SNA) launched a center this week to better coordinate their fight against al-Shabab militants, who have threatened to disrupt Somalia’s elections. The Joint Operations Coordination Center at AMISOM Sector Read More …
A package bomb that killed a restaurateur and his manager underscores the escalating use of explosives – and the terror that they generate – by criminal groups in Mexico’s most violent state. The bombing occurred on September 19 during a Read More …
At least two people have been killed several others wounded after improvised explosive device went off on Wednesday in Marka town of Lower Shabelle region. According to police, the explosion took place near Awale garage which not far from the Read More …
Two policemen were injured in roadside bomb explosion on Quetta’s Sariab road. According to police, an explosive device was planted near Kechi Beg on Sariab road, which was detonated by remote control when Eagle Squad personnel were on a routine Read More …
A campaign of disruption to work at the National Children’s Hospital construction site in Dublin has intensified with a fake bomb placed there on Monday morning. It is understood this led to an evacuation of workers after gardaí were called Read More …
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joined world leaders at the opening of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday (21 September 2021). This year’s General Assembly marks the sixth that Mr Stoltenberg has Read More …
Recent events in Afghanistan remind us that today’s global security landscape presents a vast matrix of complex challenges for the Department of Defense (DoD). One of the most concerning tactical developments is the rapid evolution in the use of militarized Read More …
The K9 team at Dubai Police are looking for homes for their retired bomb-sniffing dogs. The animals on the adoption list have retired from active police duties or were unable to meet the demands of police work. Until 2019, such Read More …
In 59 countries, leftover weapons of war continue to maim and kill civilians decades after a conflict has passed. An international team at Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is working to change that, now entering the final phase of Read More …
A report of a suspicious device in the Town of Woodway Tuesday morning turned out to be a homemade explosive device that was removed by the Everett Police Department’s bomb squad. That’s according to Edmonds police, which contracts with Woodway Read More …
The anti-terror federal probe agency NIA conducted raids at seven places in capital city Srinagar and South and north Kashmir districts this morning in connection with the recovery of IED in Jammu on June 27, 2021, sources in the agency Read More …
The head of Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency, Vugar Suleymanov, and French ambassador Zacharie Gross have discussed France’s contribution to demining operations on territories liberated from Armenia’s occupation in the last year’s war, local news sources have reported. The meeting focused Read More …
Police and Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams are currently at the grounds of Lincoln Castle following a report of two suspicious packages. A 100m cordon has been put in place as a precaution, and the nearby Crown Court has been evacuated. Read More …
Police and army recovered three locally made Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from an abandoned shed in a remote area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Tuesday. A police officer told that 3 kilograms of urea was also recovered from the Read More …
Separatist rebels have killed 15 Cameroonian soldiers and several civilians in two bomb attacks this month, the government said on Monday, marking a new phase of a conflict that has dragged on for nearly five years and cost more than Read More …