News – August 2026

August 12, 2026

The U.S. military is on track to pull all of its forces out of Iraq by the end of September, officials said Wednesday, marking the end of a presence that started with the 2003 invasion against Saddam Hussein. Washington and Baghdad agreed in 2024 to wind down the much smaller U.S.-led operations against the Islamic State group. U.S. troops pulled out of ...

August 12, 2026

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service has asked NATO’s disaster-response co-ordination centre to help supply equipment for humanitarian demining and the transport and disposal of explosive ordnance. The request was submitted via NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC), which circulates appeals for assistance to contacts in NATO member states and partner countries, the organisation informed on Wednesday. Read ...

August 12, 2026

Sri Lanka’s mine-clearance programme has been highly successful, according to the International Mine-Clearance Ambassador Rosamund Pike. Pike made the remarks during a meeting with the Housing, Construction and Water Supply Minister Dr Susil Ranasinghe. She commended Sri Lanka’s mine-clearance efforts, noting that operations are being carried out in accordance with international standards. Officials said that approximately ...

August 12, 2026

A parked car was extensively damaged in an explosion in Paphos in the early hours of Wednesday, with police investigating the incident as a suspected bomb attack. The explosion occurred at around 3.15am on Santorinis Street. Police said the vehicle belongs to a 56-year-old man. Initial examinations at the scene found that the blast was caused by a ...

August 11, 2026

The head of military intelligence for eastern Libya’s Libyan National Army ​was killed on Monday when an ‌explosive device detonated in his car outside his home in the Hawari area of Benghazi. Brigadier Fowzi ​Mansouri was killed in the evening ⁠blast, the sources said, speaking on condition ​of anonymity. They did not say who ​was responsible ...

August 11, 2026

Two young men from the town of Jayrud were killed early Tuesday after a landmine exploded while they were riding a motorcycle near al-Nasiriyah Airbase in the northeastern countryside of Damascus. Mohammad Anwar Saleh Nasser, director of the Emergency and Disaster Management Center in Jayrud, said in a statement to SANA that the center’s teams immediately responded ...

August 11, 2026

The military plant in the village of Belitsa near Tryavna remains under surveillance after explosions at an ammunition depot. A fire broke out in the area, which required firefighters to be on duty at the site overnight. The flames in a forest have been brought under control and there is no danger to people and ...

August 11, 2026

Three Iraqi soldiers, including an officer, were wounded on Tuesday when an improvised explosive device targeted a security force in an agricultural area in Daquq district, south of Kirkuk province in northern Iraq. A security source said the explosive device detonated as an Iraqi army patrol passed near Wadi Al-Shay, injuring three soldiers who were taken ...

August 10, 2026

Syrian security forces have arrested a nine-member cell affiliated with Daesh in the southern province of Quneitra, authorities said Sunday, as a stepped-up campaign targets the militant group’s networks and supply lines. The Internal Security Forces, working with the General Intelligence Service, detained the suspects in Khan Arnabah, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried ...

August 10, 2026

Pakistan security forces have killed five militants during an intelligence-based operation in Balochistan. Security sources said the operation targeted Fitna al Hindustan militants in Panjgur. The operation took place in the Sarkini and Chedgi areas. It formed part of the ongoing Operation Radd-ul-Fitna 3. Authorities said the operation aimed to disrupt militant activity in the ...

August 9, 2026

New Delhi , August 9 (ANI): The Indian Navy-US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Exercise 2026 is scheduled to be conducted at Southern Naval Command, Kochi, from August 10 to 14, the Indian Navy said in a statement on Sunday. According to the Indian Navy, the bilateral exercise aims to enhance interoperability and strengthen professional cooperation ...

August 8, 2026

Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency has said it arrested nine suspected Al-Shabaab members who were allegedly involved in planning attacks intended to be carried out in Mogadishu and surrounding areas. The suspects had been operating covertly in the Garasbaaley and Kaxda districts and in neighbourhoods of Ceelasha Biyaha. Four of them were part of a ...

August 8, 2026

A car bomb exploded Saturday in southwestern Colombia, the army said, a day after conservative political neophyte Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as Colombia’s new president. The army alleged the attack was carried out by two dissident groups of the now-defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The groups did not accept the peace agreement that FARC ...

August 8, 2026

Troops of Operation Fansan Yamma (OPFY) on a patrol near Maradun in Zamfara State have intercepted a 35-year-old terrorists’ collaborator, and recovered N5.302 million and mobile phone from him. “Preliminary interrogation showed the suspect was allegedly delivering the funds on behalf of a terrorist leader to another individual, Kasimu Garba, who was arrested at his residence. ...

August 7, 2026

A 35-year-old man lost an arm after a suspected improvised explosive device exploded in his hands in Mandera Town on Friday evening, triggering a security response. The blast occurred at about 6:30pm in the Bula Buruburu area, near Holland Sports Ground, according to preliminary police reports and witnesses. Investigators suspect the man was carrying the device ...

August 7, 2026

Syria’s Internal Security Forces announced on Friday they neutralized two ISIS militants who were planting an explosive device in the Sayyidah Zaynab area of the Damascus countryside during a nighttime patrol on roads leading to military barracks and government facilities. In a statement, the Internal Security Forces said patrol officers became suspicious of two masked individuals standing by the roadside. When officers attempted ...

August 7, 2026

Director of Damascus Countryside Health Dr. Tawfiq Hasaba confirmed that the final toll from Thursday’s explosion in the city of Jaramana, Damascus Countryside, reached 14 injuries, including seven people who were transferred to Damascus Hospital, stressing that no fatalities were recorded. Among the injured was Safouh Hussein Emad, the driver of the minibus involved in the explosion. He ...

August 7, 2026

At least six people were injured, one of them critically, after the vehicle they were travelling in struck a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) in what is suspected to be an Al Shabaab attack in Mandera County. The incident occurred at about 6 p.m. on Thursday near Odole Village in Elwak Sub-County, according to preliminary reports. The ...

August 6, 2026

At least 308 people abducted in different attacks in the northern part of Nigeria were rescued, the country’s president said Wednesday. Those rescued include 163 people abducted from Woro community in Kaiama area of Kwara state in February, and 145 people kidnapped mostly from Niger state, Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu said in a statement. Details of the operation that freed ...

August 6, 2026

Two reservist soldiers were killed, and four were seriously wounded after being hit by an explosive device in the southern Lebanon town of Majdal Zoun yesterday, the IDF announces. The slain troops are named as: Maj. (res.) Harel Birenstock, 34, a company commander from Nokdim; and Sgt. Maj. (res.) Tamir Vaknin, 33, from Eilat. Both served ...

August 6, 2026

Norway commits NOK 580 million to humanitarian efforts aimed at protecting civilians from landmines and explosive remnants of war. The funding will also cover victim assistance and advocacy to strengthen international norms and legal instruments, including the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention. “All weapons kill and maim, but in most cases, this happens while a war is ...

August 6, 2026

Military authorities have declared some senior commanders of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) wanted, following forensic analyses of electronic devices recovered during recent combat operations in the Lake Chad region of Borno State. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Mohammed Goni, the acting spokesperson for Operation Hadin Kai, a joint task force in the North-east, ...

August 6, 2026

Gadchiroli Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have recovered a cache of 14 firearms and explosive materials allegedly hidden by Maoists in a forest along the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border during a major anti-Naxal operation, officials said on Tuesday, 4th Auguts. The successful operation was carried out in the jurisdiction of the newly established Bangadi Police ...

August 5, 2026

The head of a leading Russian drone manufacturer has been critically injured in a car bomb near Ekaterinburg, in what appears to be the latest in a series of assassination attempts targeting figures linked to the country’s war in Ukraine. Vladimir Tkachuk, the founder of the private drone manufacturer Uraldronzavod, was rushed to intensive care on Wednesday after ...