News – April 2024

April 4, 2024

The number of martyrs of the terrorist attack on several military headquarters in Sistan and Baluchistan province has risen to eleven. Two police officers, two border guards, and seven IRGC and Basij volunteer forces were killed in armed clashes with the Jaysh al-Adl terrorist group in the southeastern cities of Rask and Chabahar. Iran’s Deputy Interior ...

April 3, 2024

The US said it would consider revoking its recent designation of Yemen’s Houthis as terrorists if the Iran-backed militants cease their shipping attacks in and around the Red Sea. “My hope is that we can find diplomatic off-ramps,” Tim Lenderking, President Joe Biden’s special envoy for Yemen, told reporters in an online press briefing on Wednesday. Read ...

April 3, 2024

On average, one person is killed or injured by landmines and other explosive ordnance every hour. Their destructive influence lasts long after armed conflict ends, inflicting horrific injuries and death, while trapping communities in poverty and fear. Millions of people are being put in harm’s way as conflict proliferates – from Afghanistan to Myanmar, to Sudan, ...

April 3, 2024

A controlled explosion has been carried out after an suspected explosive device was found at a garage off the A19 north of Billingham, police have confirmed. The main route was closed for several hours and motorists were caught up in lengthy huge queues and delays. Police said shortly after 4pm on Wednesday (April 3) that a ...

April 3, 2024

Security personnel recovered three powerful Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) during anti-naxal operations in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Wednesday, police said. The security forces, which included CRPF, Cobra, Jharkhand Jaguar, and district armed police, have been conducting combing operations in the core Kolhan areas of the district for over a year following intelligence inputs about the ...

April 3, 2024

Security forces arrested 20 wanted persons throughout the West Bank. The IDF Spokesman added that in the village of Al Funduq, the forces located and confiscated a rifle and destroyed three improvised explosive devices. In the village of Qibya, five suspects were arrested and terrorist funds worth tens of thousands of shekels were confiscated. In a ...

April 3, 2024

The scale of the bombs dropped on Gaza since 7 October means that it will take millions of dollars, and many years, to decontaminate the Strip from unexploded munitions, the head of the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Palestine tells UN News, ahead of Mine Action Day. Charles Birch, known as Mungo, was working with ...

April 3, 2024

Director of the Military Construction Establishment branch in Hama Province, Engineer Basil Abdel Qader, was martyred in a terrorist attack that targeted his car with an explosive device in front of his house in al-Qusour neighborhood in the city of Hama. Hama Police Command told SANA that an explosive device placed by unknown persons in the ...

April 2, 2024

The four members of the U.N.’s technical observation mission in southern Lebanon were wounded as they were carrying out a foot patrol in south Lebanon. Andrea Tenenti, spokesperson for the U.N. peacekeeping mission UNIFIL, said its “preliminary investigation showed that the incident was not caused by direct or indirect fire onto the group of UNTSO observers ...

April 2, 2024

Subject Matter experts from Allied Joint Force Command Naples conducted a Mobile Training Team to Morocco with an emphasis on Counter Improvised Explosive Devise (C-IED) to include Intel support to C-IED, at l’Unité de Secours et de Sauvetage du Génie Militaire in Morocco, Kenitra, Oct. 23-27, 2023. The training focused on NATO C-IED processes and procedures ...

April 2, 2024

Under the patronage of Saif bin Zayad Al Nahyan   ISNR 2024 is set to be the largest edition to date Showcases the latest security innovations and solutions ISNR 2024 will feature leading specialist speakers from several vital fields Abu Dhabi,  April 2024: Under the patronage of H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime ...

April 2, 2024

Explosives hidden in icons and seized by security officers in the Pskov Region in Russia’s northwest could have blown up a five-story apartment block, Department Head of the Interior Ministry’s Regional Forensic Center Dmitry Belotserkovsky said on Tuesday. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported earlier on Tuesday that FSB operatives jointly with the Federal Customs Service ...

April 2, 2024

Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency sapper Aliyev Khayyam Gambar oglu born 1987 was blown up by a mine, the Aghdam district prosecutor’s office reported. The incident occurred on April 2 during mine clearance work in the village of Saryjaly, Agdam region. Aliyev was injured, and the equipment he used was also damaged. Read more… Source: Turan  

April 2, 2024

An old unexploded hand grenade discovered in the river in Bedford has now been safely detonated by experts. The device was reported to police at around 1.30pm on Sunday and a cordon was put in place around Riverside Square. Read more… Source: BedfordTpday  

April 1, 2024

In the Fall 2023, SharpLogixx, LLC, the manufacturer of SmartRayVision, released their latest SRV custom EOD software with new AI enhanced Image Processing. This new technology takes the SRV images from outstanding to extreme fidelity. What you now get with AI Image Processing: Extremely high detail beyond any X-Ray Image produced by any system on the market. Low ...

April 1, 2024

At least nine children were killed in southeastern Afghanistan Sunday when a landmine, laid during decades of war in the country, exploded, a local official said Monday. The mine went off as a group of young boys and girls were playing with it in the Geru district of Ghazni province Sunday, said the provincial head of ...

March 31, 2024

An elite unit of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) recently successfully used the systems to safely locate and neutralize Russian ammunition in the north of Israel.  March 2024, Vidisco – provider of innovative portable, accurate and safe X-ray detection solutions for armies, security forces and law enforcement agencies – has revealed the Paladin and Hawk Pro – Two innovative systems ...

February 19, 2024

A British-designed Banshee jet-powered drone, or a design identical to it, has appeared in the conflict in Ukraine for the first time. The uncrewed aircraft is the latest addition to Kyiv’s growing inventory of one-way, standoff attack drones. Photos and a video of the drone began to circulate on social media today. They show the Banshee ...

February 16, 2023

In an until-now secretive program, the United Kingdom has rapidly developed and flight-tested a number of “complex” drones that would be suitable for use by Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. While it’s unclear which of any of the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in question were ultimately selected for supply to Ukraine, it’s obvious that a ...