Europe

July 9, 2024

The United Nations in Ukraine, in coordination with the government, has established a flexible Ukraine Community Recovery Fund (UCRF), which has already attracted $7.25 million for mine action. It is specified that the UCRF, established in November 2023, is expected to raise $300 million over five years. By the beginning of May this year, $11.74 million ...

July 9, 2024

Türkiye has deployed all instruments available in its fight against terrorism, a battle that has marked the last 40 years of its history. While political dialogues continue, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and the National Intelligence Organization have intensified efforts to close the terrorism chapter. Along the border regions, TAF’s and Iraqi authorities’ frequent and instant ...

July 8, 2024

Belarus-China anti-terror drill Attacking Falcon has kicked off at the Brestsky training ground, BelTA learned from the Defense Ministry. During the anti-terror drill, military personnel from the two countries will practice night landings, overcoming water obstacles, and conducting operations in populated areas. Read more… Source: BELTA News Sign up for our Newsletter Related:  

July 7, 2024

On Saturday, 6 July, Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yōko Kamikawa announced a joint project with Cambodia on sharing mine-clearance knowledge and technology with countries worldwide, including Ukraine. Kamikawa made this statement during her visit to the Cambodian Mine Action Centre, established in the 1990s at the end of decades of civil war in the country. ...

July 4, 2024

In his latest Unficyp report on Cyprus, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday expressed his strong concerns over the ‘significant’ militarisation of the buffer zone which undermine Unficyp’s peacekeeping efforts. Guterres highlighted a record number of violations in the buffer zone by both sides, particularly the ‘unabated’ number of sophisticated surveillance cameras. He stressed the importance ...

July 3, 2024

Two man have been arrested in Enniskillen in Co Fermanagh in connection to an ongoing investigation into an improvised explosive device found in Co Louth last month. On 9 June gardaí launched an investigation after what it described as an “object of concern” in Ravensdale, to the north of Dundalk in Co Louth. Officers from a ...

July 3, 2024

Police are investigating an attempted murder following the arrest of two additional suspects in connection with an explosion at a café in Strovolos two weeks ago. According to police reports, officers arrested a man and a woman, both aged 35, on Tuesday in connection with the explosion. Previously, a 44-year-old man had been arrested on June ...

July 2, 2024

Mohammad Farooq, 28, was arrested outside the hospital with a pressure cooker bomb designed to be twice as powerful as those used by the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013. Sheffield Crown Court heard Farooq had immersed himself in an “extremist Islamic ideology” and went to the hospital to “seek his own martyrdom” through a “murderous terrorist ...

July 1, 2024

Commanders of naval forces from Bulgaria and Romania came together on Monday at a meeting hosted by Turkish naval forces. The meeting marked the formal launch of demining work in the Black Sea by the three countries amid the danger posed by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The three admirals signed operation orders for naval forces to detect ...

June 30, 2024

A controlled explosion has been carried out in Sheffield after a historic explosive device was found. South Yorkshire Police were called to Ball Street in Kelham Island earlier today (June 30) following reports a suspected explosive device had been found in the River Don. Bomb disposal experts from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) attended the scene ...

June 30, 2024

A bomb exploded at a fast food outlet in Episkopi, Limassol, police said on Sunday. The explosion caused light damages when it went off shortly after 1am, police said. The restaurant, due to open in the coming days. Read more… Source: Cyprus Mail Sign up for our Newsletter Related:  

June 30, 2024

U.S. military bases in Europe were put on a heightened state of alert over the weekend as installations urged vigilance among their members. At U.S. European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, the Army garrison on Sunday issued a communitywide alert that the force protection threat level was elevated to condition “Charlie” until further notice. Similar directives were ...

June 30, 2024

Ukrainian Colonel Ruslan Berehulia, head of the Ministry of Defense’s Environmental Safety and Mine Action Department, reported that Defense Ministry specialists have cleared 30,000 square kilometers of Ukraine over the past two years – an area comparable to the size of Belgium or Moldova. Since 2022, approximately 174,000 square kilometers of Ukrainian land have been contaminated ...

June 28, 2024

A ‘controlled explosion’ has been carried out in Nottingham as police investigate a suspicious incident. Homes were evacuated in the Lenton area after a bomb disposal van had been spotted in the area. The force confirmed at around 3.20pm today (Friday, June 28) that officers were at Allington Avenue. It added work is ongoing to keep ...

June 28, 2024

Lancashire Constabulary officers are continuing to investigate the incident where two grenade-type devices were found in Fulwood and are asking for your help to identify a potential witness. Lancashire Constabulary officers would like to speak to the man in the CCTV footage in connection with the investigation.The officers want to make it clear that he is ...

June 28, 2024

A stash with components for making explosive devices has been found at the border with Ukraine, BelTA learned from the spokesman of the State Border Committee of Belarus Anton Bychkovsky. Anton Bychkovsky said that a Belarusian border patrol found a stash with components for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the course of operating procedures in ...

June 28, 2024

During Coronat Mask 2024, Soldiers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Reconnaissance Platoon joined more than 800 CBRN specialists from 13 NATO nations to exercise collective CBRN capabilities. The exercise, the largest CBRN exercise in Europe, included hundreds of pieces of specialized equipment to hone CBRN defense capacity, strengthen multinational interoperability to ...

June 27, 2024

“We beat them through their own app; all they can do is delete our IDs,” an Islamic State (IS) supporter from Qawqaz, the Arabic name for the Caucasus region, boasted in a closed chat room on the Darknet. He was live-updating other IS members about the attack that killed more than 140 people at a concert ...