News – April 2025

April 3, 2025

The field identification of explosives is critical for crime response, requiring specialized protocols and often the support of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams to ensure safety. Handheld Raman spectrometers are widely used for this purpose due to their portability, nondestructive analysis, and ability to detect both organic and inorganic compounds with minimal sample preparation. However, their ...

April 3, 2025

As part of Spain’s ongoing commitment to the Lebanese people, the Spanish blue helmets of the UNIFIL contingent in the Eastern Sector—led by Spain—continue their awareness-raising efforts. This time, through a series of educational conferences aimed at increasing knowledge of the management of unexploded ordnance (UXO), which poses a serious threat to the security of the ...

April 3, 2025

Defence Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya has unveiled the ultra-modern Counter Improvised Explosives Devices (Counter-IED) complex at the Humanitarian Peace Support School (HPSS) in Kahawa Garisson, Nairobi County. HPSS is an institute of the International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) which is a centre of excellence in Peace Support Operations (PSO) training, education and research. It is ...

April 3, 2025

Dutch police confirmed there was an explosion inside a car in central Amsterdam on Thursday, just days after a knife attack in the city that investigators are treating as terrorism. The reasons for this latest incident are not yet known, but police said they had arrested the driver of the car, a 50-year-old Dutch national. Surveillance ...

April 3, 2025

Militant violence and security operations intensified in the country in March 2025, with the number of militant attacks surpassing 100 for the first time since November 2014, according to a data released by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS). The think tank reported 105 militant attacks during the month, resulting in 228 fatalities, ...

April 3, 2025

The IDF says that troops of the Nahal Brigade killed a Palestinian suspect overnight after he hurled explosives at troops operating in the village of Silat al-Harithiya, near Jenin. Two other suspects were injured in the exchange of fire, the IDF says, adding that no injuries were sustained by Israeli troops. The military says that the ...

April 3, 2025

A Pakistan army soldier was martyred, and two others were injured on Tuesday when an “old explosive device” accidentally detonated along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Tetrinote Madarpur sector of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the military’s media affairs wing said. According to a brief statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the ...

April 2, 2025

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians trained with law enforcement and airport security personnel to combat Improvised Explosive Devices during a four-day interagency exercise in Colorado Springs, Colorado. U.S. Army EOD teams from the Fort Carson, Colorado-based 62nd Ordnance Company (EOD), 749th Ordnance Company (EOD) and 764th Ordnance Company (EOD) tackled the ...

April 2, 2025

Angola requires $240 million from government or donor funding to clear nearly 1,000 minefields from the civil war that ended more than two decades ago, the National Mine Action Agency head said. The landmines, planted during the 27-year civil war up to 2002, have left people with disabilities and continue to cause harm. Many remain displaced ...

April 2, 2025

Two objects found near a nursery school in Co Down on Wednesday have been declared “viable devices”. Church Street in Dromore town centre was closed in the afternoon of April 2 due to a security alert in the area. The PSNI have now confirmed that the alert has ended and that the two suspicious objects that ...

April 2, 2025

A fire broke out in a building housing a law firm after what appears to be an explosive or incendiary bomb was thrown at the building on Wednesday, local police confirmed. The incident occurred at around 03:20 in Haantjeslei in Antwerp. Three vehicles and a cargo bike were damaged, and windows in the building were smashed. ...

April 2, 2025

A multiagency search was underway Monday evening for an armed man who eluded authorities after a traffic stop that started in Robeson County. It all began about 1 p.m. after agents with the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division (ALE) tried to stop the suspect on Cope Road in Red Springs. The driver, later identified as ...

April 2, 2025

LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal Airmen assigned to the 56th Civil Engineering Squadron showcase their mission and train with Zambia Air Force and Army personnel, February 2025, in Livingstone, Zambia. The Airmen selected for the training event provided instruction on explosive safety, physical security, and stockpile management. The training ...

April 1, 2025

Reacting to news that the Finnish government has initiated the process of withdrawing from the Ottawa convention, a landmark treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel mines, Esther Major, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Research in Europe, said: “The Finnish government’s move to leave the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is a disturbing backward step that further ...

April 1, 2025

In today’s peacetime, there are still silent wars within silence, dangers within dangers and hardships of the Engineer soldiers. That is the war in searching for bombs, mines, and explosives left over from the war . At the border of Ha Giang, the Engineer soldiers are determined to “clean and safe” the land contaminated by ...

April 1, 2025

Luxembourg on Tuesday signed up to provide 2 million euros (about 2.16 million U.S. dollars) to support a mine clearance project in Cambodia. The deal was inked in Phnom Penh in the presence of visiting Crown Prince Guillaume Jean Joseph Marie of Luxembourg and Ly Thuch, a senior minister and first vice president of the Cambodian ...

April 1, 2025

A former soldier caught with an explosive device has been jailed for four and a half years. John Carstairs, 44, was held after an army bomb disposal unit was called to the scene in Cambuslang on November 15 2022. The potentially harmful item consisted of a tube with nails, firework powder, and a fuse which could ...

April 1, 2025

A Malaysian search and rescue crew – the first international team to reach Sagaing at the epicentre of Myanmar’s recent earthquake – said aftershocks and the risk of landmines had hampered the increasingly forlorn search for survivors. Sagaing, a town of about 78,000 around 16km from the epicentre of last Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake, has been ...

April 1, 2025

The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) discovered a bomb-making lab in Tulkarm that contained landmines, explosives, explosive-making materials, and a welding machine last week, the military announced on Tuesday. The IDF and Shin Bet also arrested 12 wanted individuals in Tammun and Kabatiya over the past 24 hours, the military added. A further 15 ...

April 1, 2025

Turkey has begun efforts to take control of Syria’s Tiyas air base, also known as T4, and is preparing to deploy air defence systems there, sources familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye. Construction plans for the site are also reportedly under way. Ankara and Damascus have been negotiating a defence pact since December, following ...