- Thai military clears 384 munitions from Cambodian attacks
August 11, 2025
The Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters has reported that between August 1 and 9, 2025, the Thailand Mine Action Centre (TMAC) deployed 15 operational units, working alongside Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams, to support the Suranaree Task Force and Provincial Police Region 3 in clearing munitions left from Cambodian attacks in four border provinces. A total ...
- Pakistan: Peshawar-bound Jaffar Express hit with IED blast
August 10, 2025
A blast targeted the Jaffar Express on Sunday near Spezand in Dasht Tehsil of Mastung district, damaging its locomotive and several coaches, officials confirmed. According to Levies authorities, an explosive device planted on the railway track went off as the train passed, forcing the engine and five bogies off the line. The sudden jolt brought the ...
- Iraq: More than 600 Shia pilgrims hospitalised due to chlorine gas leak
August 10, 2025
More than 600 Shia pilgrims in Iraq have been briefly hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station, according to authorities. The incident took place overnight on the route between the two Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, in the centre and south of Iraq, ...
- Pakistan: Two more bridges blown up in Waziristan
August 10, 2025
Unidentified terrorists blew up two more bridges on Azam Warsak Road in Birmal tehsil of Lower South Waziristan district on Saturday. It was the third such incident in the past 24 hours as the security situation further deteriorated in the region. According to sources, the attackers had planted improvised explosive devices under the bridges, destroying them ...
- Somalia: Blast kills 2 Ethiopian soldiers in Baidoa town
August 9, 2025
At least two Ethiopian soldiers were killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their convoy in Baidoa town, about 250km south-west of Mogadishu. The blast occurred on the road to Baidoa airport, targeting a convoy of Ethiopian forces serving in the African Union mission in Somalia. The explosion destroyed one military vehicle ...
- Ukraine: Unexploded aerial bomb found during agricultural work destroyed in Kharkiv region
August 9, 2025
Pyrotechnicians from the State Emergency Service destroyed an unexploded aerial bomb that farmers found while working near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. According to Ukrinform, the Interregional Center for Humanitarian Demining and Rapid Response reported this on Facebook. “Agricultural work during martial law requires special attention to safety! Near Kupiansk, while mowing grass, farmers discovered an ...
- Lebanon: Hezbollah ammunition depot explosion kills 6 soldiers south of Litani
August 9, 2025
Six Lebanese army soldiers were killed and others wounded in an explosion while inspecting a weapons depot in Majdal Zoun and Wadi Zibqin, Tyre. The victims include four members from the 5th Infantry Brigade and two from the Engineering Regiment. The Lebanese army is dismantling and detonating weapons and ammunition confiscated south of the Litani River, ...
- California: Evacuation warnings issued in Weaverville after pipe bomb was found in public forest
August 9, 2025
Authorities in Trinity County located a homemade pipe bomb left in a public forest Wednesday, officials announced. A community member in the small Northern California town of Weaverville reported a “suspicious item” in the Community Forest south of downtown on the morning of Aug. 6, the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a news release. Sheriff’s ...
- Northern Ireland: Man arrested after ‘multiple viable devices discovered’ in Co Tyrone
August 9, 2025
One man, aged in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances as residents were forced to spend the night away from their homes after a security alert in Co Tyrone. Emergency services were called to a property in the Oakfield Gardens area of Moy on Friday afternoon. Read more… Source: MSN News Sign up ...
- UK: Radioactive water ‘leaked into loch’ from nuclear base
August 9, 2025
Radioactive water from a Royal Navy nuclear weapons base leaked into a loch after old pipes repeatedly burst, according to official files. The Guardian, external and The Ferret, external found the material was released into Loch Long, Argyll and Bute, after a six-year battle to access documents which involved Scotland’s Information Commissioner, external. The Scottish Environment ...
- New Jersey: Bucks County man charged after explosive device detonates at former supervisor’s driveway
August 9, 2025
Michael Patrick Takacs Jr., 43, of Warminster, is facing several charges including unlawfully possessing and transporting an explosive device which caused serious damage to his former supervisor’s vehicle. According to New Jersey’s District Attorney’s Office, around July 26 at approximately 2:42 a.m., an explosive device detonated near a silver Ford Explorer parked in the victim’s driveway ...
- Thailand: Three soldiers injured in mine blast near Cambodian border
August 9, 2025
Three Thai soldiers were injured after stepping on a landmine during a routine patrol along the Thai-Cambodian border in Kantharalak district of Si Sa Ket province on Saturday morning. It was the fourth time since mid-July that Thai soldiers have been injured by mines while patrolling in disputed border areas. In the earlier incidents, the army ...
- Mexico has no evidence linking Venezuela’s Maduro to drug cartel
August 8, 2025
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has denied that her government has any evidence linking Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro to the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal network based in her country. Sheinbaum’s statements on Friday were prompted by an announcement one day earlier that the United States would double its reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest, ...
- Sudanese airstrike hits Darfur airport, killing 40 suspected mercenaries
August 7, 2025
A Sudanese airstrike hit an airport in the country’s Darfur region controlled by a notorious paramilitary group, destroying a suspected Emirati military aircraft and killing dozens of suspected mercenaries, Sudanese officials and a rebel adviser said Thursday. Wednesday’s strike on the Nyala airport killed at least 40 suspected mercenaries from Colombia and destroyed a shipment of ...
- U.S. Department of State: Reward Offer Increase of Up to $50 Million for Information Leading to Arrest and/or Conviction of Nicolás Maduro
August 7, 2025
The Department of State and the Department of Justice are announcing a reward offer increase of up to $50 million under the Narcotics Rewards Program (NRP) for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro for violating U.S. narcotics laws. For over a decade, Maduro has been a leader of Cartel de los Soles, ...
- New York: Multiple explosives and drugs found in LI home during arrest
August 7, 2025
Multiple explosives, along with packets of drugs such as fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine, were found in a Long Island home during an arrest this week, the Nassau County Police announced on Thursday. Anthony Gianatiempo, 34, was arrested at his home on Cantiague Lane on Tuesday, where police also removed five devices and 26 containers of smokeless ...
- Pakistan: A roadside bomb targeting police vehicle in South Waziristan kills 2 officers and wounds 14
August 7, 2025
A powerful roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the restive northwest of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least two officers and wounding 14 others, mostly passersby, officials said. The attack took place in the city of Wana in South Waziristan, a district in the Khyber ...
- Ukraine: Two teenagers arrested for deadly terrorist attack in Zhytomyr
August 7, 2025
Ukrainian security forces have arrested two 17-year-olds — a boy and a girl — in connection with a terrorist attack in Zhytomyr that killed one man and seriously injured another. The investigation revealed that the teenagers — a local vocational student and her peer — were recruited by Russian intelligence after seeking easy money via Telegram ...
- Pakistan: 11 killed in terror attacks across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces
August 7, 2025
Eight security personnel and three civilians embraced martyrdom in different terror attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, officials said on Wednesday. In Balochistan’s Mastung district, three security personnel, including a senior officer, were martyred and three others sustained injuries in an improvised explosive device attack in Kirdgab area of the district. ISPR said the incident took ...
- Kenya: Eight police officers injured in Garissa IED attack
August 6, 2025
At least eight police officers were injured in an explosion that hit their vehicle along Banabs-Yumbis Road in Garissa County, police authorities said. The group was travelling in a police Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle in the area on the evening of Tuesday, August 5, when the vehicle ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). ...
- Zimbabwe: ZDF intensify demining efforts in Binga
August 6, 2025
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) is intensifying demining efforts in the Binga district, with works currently underway in the Lusulu area. This was revealed by Zimbabwe National Army Chief of Staff Quarter Master Staff, Major General Simo Maseko, during the handover of newly constructed Veterinary offices in Binga on Tuesday. Early this year, three people died and ...
- Northern Ireland: Three people escape injury in petrol bomb attack
August 6, 2025
The police are appealing for information after a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of a house in Coleraine, County Londonderry. The incident happened on Maple Drive at about 01:30 BST on Wednesday. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said three people were in the house at the time and managed to extinguish the ...
- Mississippi: Woman arrested after homemade explosive device found in package
August 5, 2025
A woman was arrested after Mississippi authorities say they found a homemade explosive device in a suspicious package. Deputies with the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office have arrested Christina Laureen Willis, 27, of Batesville. Willis is being charged with attempted murder, and with planting or placing a bomb or explosive, or weapon of mass destruction. The LCSO with ...
- Germany: Bomb found at Dresden construction site, 17,000 people affected by evacuation
August 5, 2025
A 250-kilogram world war bomb was discovered at the construction site of Dresden’s Carola Bridge. It will be defused on site on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. Around 17,000 people will have to leave their homes, workplaces or hotels beforehand. Discovery at the Carola Bridge construction site On Tuesday, August 5, 2025, a British 250-kilogram bomb from ...
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