Switzerland allocates CHF 100M for humanitarian demining in Ukraine

The Swiss Federal Council has approved a package of 100 million Swiss francs (almost $110 million) to demine civilian and agricultural areas in Ukraine and help rebuild the country, the Swiss government said this in a press release. “A total Read More …

Pakistan: At least 5 killed, 12 wounded in ‘twin blasts’ in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

At least five people were killed while 12 sustained injuries when two suicide blasts rocked a mosque located inside the premises of the Doaba police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu on Friday, according to KP interim Information Minister Feroze Jamal. Read More …

Pakistan: At least 52 killed, scores injured in suicide blast near 12th Rabiul Awwal procession in Mastung

At least 52 people, including a police officer, were killed while around 50 were injured in what officials believe was a suicide blast near a Rabiul Awwal procession in Balochistan’s Mastung district on Friday. “The bomber detonated himself near the Read More …

Hungary: Bomber in Esztergom wanted to kill cops

The bomber from Esztergom posted a harrowing message on his social network: as if he had accurately predicted a year ago the horror that has now become a terrible reality. The Hungarian tabloid Blikk published updates about the bomber in Read More …

IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 185

In the latest indications of military activities some distance away from the ZNPP, the experts continue to hear explosions almost every day and have also heard machine gun fire. As part of their walkdowns over the past week, the IAEA Read More …

Somalia: Bomb blast kills at least six in Hiran province

At least six people were killed and several wounded Thursday in a bomb blast in Somalia’s central state of Hirshabele. A police officer in Jowhar, the administrative capital of Hirshabele, told the Turkish news agency that the attack involved a Read More …

India: One CRPF jawan killed in IED blasts in West Singhbhum

One CRPF jawan was killed and an inspector-ranked officer was injured in IED blasts which took place during an anti-insurgency operation under the Tonto Thana area in West Singhbhum on Thursday afternoon. The victims who were of the CRPF’s 209 Read More …

UK: PhD student guilty of making drone to deliver chemical weapon for terrorists

A PhD student has been found guilty of designing and building a “kamikaze” drone capable of delivering a bomb or chemical weapon for so-called Islamic State (IS) terrorists. Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court deliberated for around six hours over two days Read More …

Safe Pro Introduces SpotlightAi, the World’s First Demining Technology Powered by Artificial Intelligence to Autonomously Identify and Locate Landmines from Drone-based Imagery

– Company Files International Patent Application Securing Priority Position Following Successful In-the- Field Testing of the SpotlightAi Demining Software Platform in Ukraine –   AVENTURA, FL – September 28, 2023 – Safe Pro Group Inc. (“Safe Pro” or the “Company”), Read More …

U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal techs train with Senegalese Armed Forces troops

U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal techs returned home to Fort Leonard, Missouri, following a three-month training session with Senegalese Armed Forces EOD troops in Dakar, Senegal. Soldiers from the 763rd Ordnance Company (EOD) recently conducted new equipment and counter Improvised Read More …

Pakistan: Car-bomb plot foiled in Quetta

The law-enforcement agencies on Wednesday foiled an attempt to carry out a car-bomb attack in the city and seized an explosives-laden car from a parking lot near a police station in the Eastern Bypass area. “Over 35 kilograms of high Read More …

Sweden: Three people killed in overnight shootings and an explosion

Three people were killed overnight in separate incidents in Sweden as deadly violence linked to a feud between criminal gangs escalated. Early Thursday a woman in her 20s died in an explosion in Uppsala, west of Stockholm. The blast, which Read More …

Northern Ireland: Alleged ‘New IRA chief bomb maker’ bailed until date set for trial

A barrister representing a man accused of terror offences said the allegation against his client was that he was “the New IRA’s chief bomb maker over a span of quite a few years”. Barrister Joe Brolly, who represents Kieran George Read More …

Thai Cabinet approves $30,000 in aid for ARMAC

Thailand’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved $30,000 in operational costs for the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Centre (ARMAC) in Phnom Penh for the period 2024 to 2026. The three-year aid announcement was made ahead of Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin’s first Read More …

Ontario: IED believed to be on vehicle in Barrie, parking lot explodes, sparking evacuations

Police locked down and evacuated a section of Barrie, Ont., Wednesday in the city’s west end after an explosion in a parking lot. Barrie Police Services Corporate Communications Coordinator Peter Leon said the improvised explosive device (IED) is believed to Read More …

Bulgarian parliament approves new military aid package for Ukraine

The Bulgarian parliament approved a new military aid package for Ukraine, media reports said Wednesday. The state-run news agency said the resolution, which includes the transfer of small-caliber automatic weapon ammunition discarded by the Interior Ministry and defective surface-to-air missiles Read More …

Pakistan: 8 people killed after a rocket launcher shell explodes at a home in southern Sindh province

A shell of a rocket launcher apparently accidentally exploded at a home in a remote village in southern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, including women and children, police said. At least two people were also wounded in Read More …

Ukraine Getting ATACMS Cluster Variant Would Be A Big Problem For Russia

In the course of the discussions about what Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) ballistic missiles could offer Ukraine, much of the focus has been on variants of these weapons equipped with unitary (single high-explosive) warheads.  However, versions loaded with cluster Read More …