- South Korea team supports U.S. Army route clearance equipment turn-in
February 18, 2026
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM – A U.S. Army rotational unit preparing to redeploy to Fort Carson, Colorado, recently completed the turn-in of route clearance vehicles and robotic systems with support from Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services personnel in South Korea. The effort required close coordination between the Camp Humphreys disposal service representatives and the Gimcheon site ...
- Ukraine: Explosion at military enlistment office declared terrorist attack
February 18, 2026
An explosion at a military enlistment office in the city of Kolomyia, in western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, has been classified as a terrorist attack, the regional prosecutor’s office said. The news comes amid a rise in attacks on vehicles belonging to military personnel across Ukraine. In the past two weeks alone, two such incidents have been ...
- Belgium gives €1.35 million to UN mine clearance in Iraq and Syria
February 18, 2026
Belgium contributed €1.35 million last year to mine clearance work by the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Iraq and Syria, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday. Since 2019, Belgium has invested more than €13 million in mine action projects in the two countries. After years of heavy conflict, Iraq and Syria remain contaminated ...
- Azerbaijan: ANAMA employee injured in landmine explosion in Khojaly District
February 18, 2026
A staff member of the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) was injured in a landmine explosion on February 18, 2026, in the village of Mukhtar in the Khojaly District, an area recently liberated from occupation. According to ANAMA, the incident occurred while the agency employee, 25-year-old Vasif Chobanov, born in 2000, was carrying out his official ...
- South Korea: Jeong Tae-seong urges to set mine standards and speed clearance
February 18, 2026
Jeong Tae-seong, secretary general ofthe Korea Association for Mine Action Technology, said, “Not only north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) or the Civilian Control Line (CCL), but also mines around rear-area air defense bases are making normal use of the land difficult.” The land mine problem is notlimited to border areas. According to data from the ...
- Myanmar: Civilian injured in IED explosion in Ngazun township of Mandalay Region
February 18, 2026
In order to cause injuries to both peaceable civilians and administrative authorities who are striving to restore the rule of law, extreme terrorists provide financial assistance and instigate destructive activities, such as detonating explosive devices and remote blasting, against public roads, railways, government offices and houses. Oon 16 February 2026 at 5:30 PM, a report stated ...
- Italy: Rail sabotage – old tactics, new radical ties
February 18, 2026
Low-cost, high-impact sabotage: targeting signaling systems stops trains without touching the rolling stock. According to Roberto Setola, director of the Master’s program in Homeland Security at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, the method is a classic of the anarchist milieu, though with possible new linkages among radical fringes. Italy has a solid security system; the ...
- North Carolina: Training for the unthinkable, Task Force 2 validates domestic response readiness
February 17, 2026
Soldiers from units across the force converged at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Feb. 10-12, to validate their readiness as part of Task Force 2 under the Defense Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives Response Force. The training ensures the soldiers remain prepared to deploy on no-notice orders in response to a potential weapon of mass destruction ...
- 48th CES EOD holds demonstration for local community
February 17, 2026
RAF FELTWELL, England — The 48th Civil Engineering Squadron explosive ordnance disposal shop hosted a demonstration for the Feltwell Parish Council and local community members at RAF Feltwell, England on Feb. 13. The primary mission of the EOD team is to protect the Liberty Wing’s personnel, equipment, and resources from explosive hazards. This includes responding to ...
- Western Australia: Police accused of being slow to respond to alleged homemade bomb at Perth Invasion Day rally
February 17, 2026
Sisonke Msimang had no way of knowing the item she picked up while in the crowd at a Perth Invasion Day rally was what police allege was a homemade bomb designed to detonate on impact. She also told 7.30 that police were slow to act when she approached them with the device, hidden inside a child’s ...
- Pakistan: Militants kill 11 security personnel, one child near Afghan border
February 17, 2026
Militants rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into an army checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing 11 security personnel and a child, the military said on Tuesday. Women and children were among seven wounded in Monday’s attack in Bajur district, which lies along the border with Afghanistan, the military said. The militants drove into the wall of a ...
- UK: Man arrested after ‘significant number of illegal weapons’ found in house in Abergwynfi
February 16, 2026
A man has been arrested after a report of a ‘significant number of illegal weapons’ discovered at a property in Abergwynfi, Neath Port Talbot. Officers attended an address on Commercial Street, following a report at around 09:30pm on Sunday 15, February. A 51-year-old man from Blaengwynfi was arrested on suspicion of attempting to make an explosive ...
- Kenya: Capacity consultations to strengthen Eastern Africa’s response to terrorist use of IEDs
February 16, 2026
The Global Programme on Countering Terrorist Use of Weaponsof the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) co-organized a capacity consultations workshop with the National Counter Terrorism Centre of Kenya (NCTC) from 28 to 29 January 2026, in Nairobi, Kenya. Hosted by the Humanitarian Peace Support Center, the consultations were held under the project “Supporting Eastern Africa ...
- Pakistan: At least 2 killed, 17 injured in explosion near police station in Bannu
February 16, 2026
At least two people were killed and 17 others injured in a powerful explosion near Miryan Police Station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Monday. According to a statement by the police, the blast occurred when a time bomb planted in a motorcycle detonated. A child was among those killed in the explosion. Police sources said ...
- India: NSG conducts counter-IED training for J&K Police
February 16, 2026
The National Security Guard (NSG) successfully conducted a two-week advanced training programme on Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (CIED) for personnel of Jammu and Kashmir Police in Udhampur district, said officials. The National Security Guard (NSG) successfully conducted a two-week advanced training programme on Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (CIED) for personnel of Jammu and Kashmir Police in ...
- Afghanistan: The hidden explosive threat
February 16, 2026
In Afghanistan, the guns have fallen silent, but the war remains buried beneath the soil in the form of deadly explosive items, including landmines and unexploded remnants of war. The European Union supports mine clearance efforts so communities can safely use land for farming, housing, and schools, while also funding risk education and providing medical ...
- Nigeria: 11 suspected bandits killed in Zamfara in IED blast
February 16, 2026
No fewer than 11 suspected bandits have died after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated while they were allegedly transporting it for an attack in Zamfara State. The explosion occurred near Babbar Doka village in the Dansadau Emirate of Maru Local Government Area, amid a resurgence of banditry and increasing use of explosives against security forces ...
- Ukraine: Car explosion in Odesa Injures one person
February 16, 2026
In the morning of February 16, 2026, on Akademika Korovла Street in Odesa, there was an explosion of a passenger car, injuring one person. According to preliminary data, a 56-year-old man was injured. He was hospitalized for medical treatment. Investigators, operatives, forensic experts, and bomb technicians are at the scene; law enforcement officers are clarifying the ...
- India: Deadly Bhubaneswar rooftop blast caught on camera
February 16, 2026
Investigators believe the explosion occurred while explosive materials were being handled on the rooftop. Gunpowder was recovered from the site, strengthening suspicions that crude bombs were being assembled there. A CCTV footage of the powerful explosion that rocked the Sundarpada area of Odisha’s capital on January 27 has surfaced, revealing the scale and intensity of the ...
- Burkina Faso: Mlitant attacks on army leave at least 10 dead
February 16, 2026
Suspected Islamist militants attacked an army unit in northern Burkina Faso Sunday, the latest in a series of alleged militant attacks that have killed at least 10 people in four days, security sources told AFP. On Sunday, militants carried out a major attack on a military detachment in the northern town of Nare, two security sources ...
- Thailand: Reports of 6 newly laid mines in Trat province
February 15, 2026
Thailand’s Humanitarian Mine Action Unit has discovered six newly planted PMN-2 anti-personnel landmines in Ban Chamrak, Muang district, confirming they were recently laid by Cambodian forces. The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) spokesman Rear Admiral Parach Rattanachaipan said on Sunday the mines were found on Saturday during an operation to secure the area under the “Trat Phikhat ...
- U.S. military completes transfer of 5,700 IS detainees from Syria to Iraq
February 13, 2026
The U.S. military has completed the transfer of thousands of Islamic State group detainees from Syria to Iraq, where they are expected to stand trial in the future, the U.S. Central Command said Friday. CENTCOM said that the transfer that began on Jan. 21 saw U.S. forces transporting more than 5,700 adult male IS suspects from ...
- Israel: Over 200 arrested, guns, and explosives confiscated in major Arab crime crackdown
February 13, 2026
The Israel Police in the North confiscated around 200 illegal weapons and arrested over 200 suspects over the last few weeks in a major crackdown on crime in Arab communities, a police spokesperson announced on Friday. Since January, police have been conducting operation “On Target” that encompasses a series of focused raids on known criminal bodies ...
- Pakistan: Frontier Works Organisation worker killed, army officer injured in Diamer IED attack
February 13, 2026
A Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) worker was martyred, while three others including an army major, were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded near an FWO vehicle in the Tangir valley of Diamer on Thursday. Subsequently, two terrorists were killed and three injured during an exchange of fire. According to an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) ...
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