News – December 2025

December 31, 2025

The Rajasthan Police on Wednesday recovered a large quantity of explosive material, including 150 kg of ammonium nitrate hidden in sacks, from a Maruti Ciaz car after intercepting the vehicle during patrolling in the Tonk district, as per news agency PTI. Two people were arrested in connection with the seizure and are being questioned. Police said ...

December 31, 2025

WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today unleashed the 2026 TSA Canine Calendar, an annual tradition honoring the agency’s more than 1,000 explosives detection canines working at airports across the United States. The 2026 TSA Canine Calendar is now available for download. It highlights 13 extraordinary canines selected from 97 teams submitted nationwide. Each month ...

December 31, 2025

Security operatives have cleared and reopened the Gusau–Magami–Dansadau Road for public use following a joint Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) sweep operation carried out by the Police and Military teams in Zamfara State. The operation was launched in response to the December 27, 2025 explosion caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by suspected terrorists along ...

December 31, 2025

The Palestinian government said on Tuesday that it is partnering with international organisations to remove unexploded ordnance in Gaza, reported Xinhua. Field surveys, marking of contaminated areas, and training of local personnel have already begun in Gaza, and the Palestinian Mine Action Centre is working to form a broad international coalition for the task once technical ...

December 30, 2025

A 21-year-old Texas man has been charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS after allegedly delivering bomb-making components and cash to undercover agents he believed were members of the terrorist organization, federal authorities announced Monday. John Michael Garza Jr., of Midlothian, was arrested Dec. 22 shortly after meeting with an undercover FBI agent. According ...

December 29, 2025

Three Turkish police officers and six Islamic State militants were killed in a gunfight in northwest Turkey on Monday, the Interior Minister said, a week after more than 100 suspected IS members were detained for planning Christmas and New Year attacks. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said eight police and another security force member were wounded in ...

December 29, 2025

The United Nations and the United States on Monday formalized an agreement under which the US committed $2 billion in humanitarian assistance for global relief programmes, a move the UN’s top relief official hailed as a landmark commitment to saving lives amid escalating humanitarian needs worldwide. Speaking at the signing in Geneva, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator ...

December 29, 2025

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) conducted two high-impact precision Air Interdiction (AI) missions on December 28, 2025, at Turba Hill and Kachalla Dogo Sule’s Camp, both in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State, neutralising several bandits. NAF air assets were deployed against the bandits’ enclaves based on credible, multiple-source intelligence. The Service’s Director of Public ...

December 29, 2025

The man accused of placing two pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol told investigators after his arrest that he believed someone needed to “speak up” for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen and that he wanted to target the country’s political parties ...

December 28, 2025

Iraq Counter-Terrorism Service-ICTS said on Sunday it had arrested five terrorists in operations carried out across three provinces. In a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), ICTS said the arrests were part of ongoing efforts to enhance national security and pursue terrorist members. The operations were conducted based on judicial warrants, precise intelligence and ...

December 28, 2025

Irish phone companies were “unwilling” to take part in an early 2000s scheme to temporarily block networks in a bid to prevent bombs being set off in Northern Ireland, according to previously confidential documents. Authorities in Northern Ireland and the UK had been engaging with the Republic of Ireland about the possible implementation of a plan ...

December 28, 2025

Repair works have begun on a power transmission line near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) following another local ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, achieved with the mediation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). According to IAE: “Critically important repair works on a power transmission line have started near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia NPP following another ...

December 27, 2025

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has notified a dedicated standard for bomb disposal systems to address a critical gap in the country’s security preparedness framework and provide manufacturers with clear performance benchmarks. The new standard, IS 19445:2025, was developed at the request of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Terminal Ballistic Research Laboratory. ...

December 27, 2025

The police command in Zamfara, on Saturday, confirmed that some objects suspected to be improvised explosive devices exploded along the Magami–Dansadau Road in Maru LGA. The command’s spokesman, Yazid Abubakar, confirmed. Mr Abubakar, who declined to make further comments, said the information available to the command was sketchy. He said the command was investigating to ascertain ...

December 27, 2025

Authorities evacuated around fifty homes Friday afternoon after explosive material was discovered in a Lichtenvoorde residence. Police also arrested a resident of the property. The discovery triggered an immediate response from local police, the fire department, and the Explosieven Opruimingsdienst Defensie (EOD), the Dutch military’s bomb disposal unit. The EOD later detonated the explosives outside Lichtenvoorde, ...

December 27, 2025

The Bannu police foiled a major act of sabotage by neutralising a bomb, weighting about 10 kilogrammes. A locally-made improvised explosive device, planted near Road Darashah Kallay within the jurisdiction of Basiyakhel police station, was timely defused, thereby preventing a large-scale terrorist attack, officials said. According to the BDS, the defused device contained 10 to 12kg ...

December 27, 2025

A police patrol has recovered a cache of weapons and explosive materials hidden inside an abandoned animal shed in Shitganga Municipality-11, Boksé, Arghakhanchi. Deputy Superintendent of Police Dibas Bahadur GC, said that his team found the items on Friday while inspecting the shed, which lies on the edge of a forest. The structure, originally built to ...

December 27, 2025

Three people have been arrested and a cache of bomb-making materials seized following an explosion at Ummal Kura International Madrasa in Hasnabad area of South Keraniganj, Dhaka, that injured four people, including women and children on Friday, authorities said. Police said they recovered four crude bombs, chemical substances, bomb-making drum equipment, a laptop, and a monitor ...

December 27, 2025

Police have arrested an individual suspected of being involved in an explosion that occurred after an improvised explosive device (IED) was used in the Desa Palma area, Nilai, near here on Dec 22. Negri Sembilan police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Alzafny Ahmad said the man, known as Yeoh Hock Sun or Ayang, 62, was arrested in ...

December 27, 2025

Thailand and Cambodia agreed to an “immediate” ceasefire on Saturday, the two countries said in a joint statement issued by the Cambodian side, pledging to end weeks of deadly border clashes. The neighbors’ long-standing border conflict reignited this month, shattering an earlier truce and killing at least 47 people, according to official counts. Around one ...

December 26, 2025

Eight people were killed and 18 others injured in an initial toll following a terrorist explosion at the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dahab district of Homs, central Syria. Officials at the Syrian Health Ministry said that eight people were killed and 18 others injured in the blast, according to preliminary figures. Interior ...

December 26, 2025

Niger’s defence and security forces announced that 45 terrorists were neutralised and 26 individuals were detained on suspicion of involvement or complicity with armed terrorist groups during air and ground operations carried out across the country. In a statement, the Nigerien army said that firearms, quantities of ammunition, and other items belonging to the militants were ...

December 26, 2025

In a statement issued on Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, signed by spokesperson Kimiebi Ebienfa, said Nigerian authorities remain engaged in “structured security cooperation with international partners, including the United States of America,” to address terrorism and violent extremism in the country. The ministry said the collaboration, which led to precision airstrikes on terrorist targets, ...

December 26, 2025

Turkish police detained 115 suspects in coordinated counter-terrorism raids linked to a Daesh plot targeting Christmas and New Year events, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said on Wednesday. In a statement shared on X, the Office said operations were launched following intelligence that terrorists were planning to make calls for action and carry out ...