- Syria: Explosive device planted inside car goes off in Mezzeh area of Damascus
August 16, 2025
An explosive device planted inside an old car exploded this evening in the Mezzeh area of Damascus, causing no injuries. Commander of the Internal Security Forces in Damascus Governorate, Brigadier General Osama Mohammad Khair Atikah, said in a statement on Saturday that the explosion was caused by an explosive device planted inside an old Austin car ...
- Ethiopia Requests UN to Extend Landmine Clearance Deadline for Third Time
August 16, 2025
Ethiopia has requested the UN to again extend a deadline to clear landmines left strewn by wars old and new, placing people at risk on more than 125 million hectares of land. Ethiopia acceded to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) in 2004 and was initially obligated to clear all known contamination before June 2015—a ...
- Peru: Explosion in Trujillo injures 10 people and damages 25 homes
August 15, 2025
An explosion on a street in a northern Peruvian region plagued by organized crime injured at least 10 people and damaged 25 homes, authorities said Friday. Interior Minister Carlos Malaver said the Thursday night blast in the city of Trujillo could be related to disputes between criminal groups primarily involved in extortion, one of the crimes ...
- New York: Guard Explosive Ordnance Disposal Soldiers from Four States Unite for Training
August 15, 2025
CAMP DAWSON AIR FORCE RESERVE STATION, W.Va. – Members of the New York Army National Guard’s 501st Ordnance Battalion, an explosive ordnance disposal, or EOD, headquarters, recently ran a training event for 142 Soldiers from four different states at Camp Dawson. The Glenville, New York-based battalion designed the two-week exercise to create demanding environments to test ...
- Pakistan: Six police officers killed, 8 injured in multiple attacks on police checkpoints in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
August 15, 2025
At least six police officials were martyred and another eight were left injured as militants attacked police checkpoints and patrols across seven districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, including Peshawar, Upper Dir and Lower Dir, police said on Thursday. The attacks coincided with national celebrations of the 78th Independence Day of Pakistan. The attacks ...
- UK continues support for mine clearance in Syria
August 15, 2025
The UK has stressed its continued support for efforts to clear Syrian territory of mines. The British envoy for Syria, Ann Snow, warned in a post on X platform that “Syria is set to record the highest number of civilian landmine casualties in the world’’. Snow noted that Britain supports the work of the Mine Advisory ...
- UN Syria Commission finds March coastal violence was widespread and systematic
August 14, 2025
GENEVA – The UN Syria Commission of Inquiry today published a report on the wave of violence that engulfed coastal and western central Syria from January, finding that acts that may amount to war crimes were committed. The violence – which primarily targeted Alawi communities and culminated in massacres in early March – included murder, torture ...
- Burkina Faso: WFP suspends flights to Solle after explosion
August 13, 2025
The U.N. World Food Programme said on Wednesday it had suspended flights to the northwestern Burkina Faso town of Solle after an explosion near a helicopter it chartered injured a crew member and a government official. The WFP is trying to reach more than 300,000 people during the West African nation’s lean season, which runs from ...
- Fort Leonard Wood EOD Soldiers train with local law enforcement agencies
August 13, 2025
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Fort Leonard Wood Soldiers with the 763rd Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) trained with local law enforcement professionals Aug. 5 to hone their skills and share their expertise during a homeland defense response exercise. “This training gave my Soldiers an opportunity to get real face-to-face training with the sheriff’s department and other ...
- Explosive Detection Canines in the Field: A Multi-Site Black Box Validation Study
August 13, 2025
In 2009, the National Research Council called upon the forensic science community to standardize the best practices and guidelines in the collection and analysis of evidence with the goal of ensuring quality and consistency within the field. In response to this need, the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) was established to ...
- British Columbia: RCMP and Nelson police safely dispose of improvised explosive device
August 13, 2025
A live improvised explosive device (IED) was disposed of in Nelson earlier today after a city youth unwittingly brought it back from a recent visit to Trail. On Wednesday afternoon the RCMP explosives disposal unit (EDU) attended the scene — near the intersection of Douglas and Pine Streets in Nelson — and safely disposed of the ...
- Colombia: Three soldiers killed in attack with explosive-laden drones near Buenaventura city
August 13, 2025
Three soldiers have been killed in a drone attack in south-west Colombia, which authorities have blamed on a dissident rebel group. The devices dropped explosives on members of Colombia’s navy and army, who were manning a checkpoint on the Naya River. Four other members of the security forces were injured in the attack. Drone attacks have ...
- Thailand and Cambodia to hold border talks amid troop movements and minefield concerns
August 13, 2025
Thailand’s Special Task Force (STF) has announced that it will hold a series of Regional Border Committee (RBC) meetings with Cambodia this month to discuss ongoing border issues, including mine clearance. The move comes as an Asean delegation prepares to observe the border situation and a senior Thai official reveals that Cambodia’s recent troop reinforcements are ...
- Pakistan: Terrorists blow up a gas pipeline in Lakki Marwat
August 13, 2025
Terrorists on Wednesday blew up a gas pipeline in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district, resulting in a suspension of gas supply to Punjab, police said. Lakki Marwat police spokesperson Aamir Khan told Dawn.com that the terrorists detonated explosives planted on the pipeline within the limits of the Bhana Manjiwala area of the district. The explosion resulted in ...
- Nigeria: Several terrorists killed in failed Borno ambush
August 13, 2025
The terrorists had ambushed Nigerian troops of 145 Battalion, Damasak, located in Kareto, detonating an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and immediately following it up with gunfire. The Boko Haram fighters, however, got caught up in the detonated IED as several of them were killed by the explosion when troops carried out anti-ambush drills and outflanked the ...
- UK: Bomb disposal team carries out controlled explosion in Surrey
August 13, 2025
A bomb disposal team has carried out a controlled explosion after a suspicious device was found along a Surrey road. Whyteleafe Hill was closed on Tuesday (August 12) after an unexploded device was discovered at a building site. Officers were called at around 3.10pm and remained on site for several hours along with colleagues from Surrey ...
- Kentucky: Blue Grass Army Depot chemical weapons plant to be demolished next summer
August 13, 2025
A safer era for Madison County and the region is just three months away, according to the governor’s top man for overseeing the destruction of chemical weapons previously stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot. Craig Williams, a Berea resident and Vietnam veteran, has been leading the way to decommission the toxic gasses for the past ...
- Syria and Turkey strike new military deal
August 13, 2025
Syria and Turkey have struck a deal on military training and consultancy during a high-level Syrian delegation’s visit to Ankara on Wednesday, Turkey’s Defence Ministry announced. The agreement was signed for the regular exchange of personnel to enhance military co-operation; specialised skills training; and a series of programmes in counterterrorism, mine clearance, cyber defence, military engineering, ...
- Pakistan: Drone attack on FC check post in Bannu’s Takhti Khel injures four personnel
August 12, 2025
Terrorists launched a quadcopter drone attack on a Frontier Corps (FC) check post in the Takhti Khel area of Bannu, injuring four personnel on Tuesday. Just a few days earlier, the same post came under a drone strike that killed one soldier and injured four others. Earlier today, an improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeted a ...
- Indonesia: Suspected 400-Kg Dutch bomb found in Yogyakarta
August 11, 2025
Police in Sleman, Yogyakarta, have identified a suspected 400-kilogram wartime aerial bomb, likely a remnant from World War II, prompting an evacuation and traffic closures ahead of its planned disposal on Tuesday morning. Sleman Police Chief Edy Setianto Erning Wibowo said the device was believed to be an aircraft bomb left over from the Second World ...
- Belgium: Controlled explosion carried out after children find WWII bomb in field
August 11, 2025
Two children have found an old bomb while out with a metal detector. The bomb disposal unit Dovo checked the American artillery bomb from the Second World War and detonated it. Ferre and Febe found the shell with their metal detector in a field in Wolfsdonk, Flemish Brabant. “The children heard a loud beeping sound and ...
- CBRN School says farewell to Lovasz, welcomes Parker during ceremony
August 11, 2025
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — The U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear School said farewell to Col. Alexander Lovasz and welcomed Col. Fredrick Parker during a change-of-commandant ceremony Aug. 8 on the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence Plaza. The reviewing officer for the ceremony, Maj. Gen. Christopher Beck, MSCoE and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general, ...
- Colorado Springs police searching home connected to incendiary device found during traffic stop
August 11, 2025
Police in Colorado Springs were searching a home on the east side of the city Monday morning tied to an incendiary device found during a traffic stop last week. Last Thursday, the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) said Anthony Lopez was arrested when police stopped his car near North Carefree Circle and Hammock Drive for a ...
- UAS sensor protection key initiative for Army’s C5ISR Center
August 11, 2025
FORT BELVOIR, Va. – Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), also commonly known as drones, have significantly evolved over the last decade of large-scale combat operations—transitioning from simple reconnaissance tools to complex weapon systems. Today’s soldiers are seeing how UAS play an increasingly pivotal and multifaceted role in contemporary conflicts and how they will serve as critical enablers ...
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