- Nigeria: ISWAP Terrorists Eliminated While Planting IEDs on Borno Highway
June 30, 2025
Troops of Sector 2, Operation Hadin Kai, have successfully neutralised two suspected fighters of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) who were attempting to plant Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) along a key highway in Borno State, PRNigeria learnt. Military intelligence sources informed Zagazola Makama on Monday that the operation took place along the strategic Trans-Timbuktu ...
- Northern Ireland: Man charged with possessing armour-plating explosive device granted bail
June 30, 2025
A Co Fermanagh man charged with possessing an armour-plating explosive device has been granted bail at the High Court. A judge ruled there were “exceptional circumstances’’ to permit Emmett Maguire to return home to his family to help his wife look after their children. Maguire (43), of Station Road and Rory Martin Logan (42), from Ross ...
- Iraq: Kirkuk Air Base and residential area hit by rocket attack
June 30, 2025
At least two rockets struck the Kirkuk Air Base and a nearby residential neighborhood in Kirkuk governorate on Monday night (June 30, 2025), according to security sources. One source reported that two Katyusha rockets were fired, with one landing between two runways at the air base and the other hitting a house in the Al-Uruba neighborhood. ...
- Colorado: ‘Large, homemade firecracker’ shuts down CSPD’s Falcon substation
June 30, 2025
Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) says that a “large, homemade firecracker” temporarily shut down parts of the Falcon substation on Sunday. According to CSPD, at approximately 11:30 a.m. on June 29, 2025, a man came into the Falcon substation at 7850 Goddard Street with what he believed was a homemade firecracker. CSPD says that they removed ...
- U.S. Navy and Marine Corps EOD Technicians Conduct Live Mine Countermeasure Operations During IWO-TO LIVE MINEX 2025
June 29, 2025
IWOTO, Japan – U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 participated in IWO-TO LIVE MINEX 2025, a bilateral mine countermeasures (MCM) exercise hosted annually by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), from June 5 to June 22. This year marks the fourth combined training between the U.S. ...
- Israel: IDF destroys IED site in northern Gaza
June 29, 2025
Troops from the Givati Brigade, under the command of the 162nd Division, are operating in the area of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip as part of Operation “Gideon’s Chariots”. In recent weeks, the troops eliminated numerous terrorists, dismantled military infrastructure both above and below ground, and located and confiscated weapons, some of which were hidden ...
- India: 500 detonators, 28 IEDs seized by security forces in Jharkhand
June 29, 2025
Security forces seized a huge quantity of explosives from a Maoist dump in a forest in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharswan district, a police officer said on Sunday. The explosives including 500 electronic detonators were seized from a Maoist dump set up in Gobargota forest near Raijama village, a statement issued by Superintendent of Police Mukesh Kumar Lunayat said. Read ...
- Syria: Emergency Minister, International Organizations discuss structure of National Mine Action Center
June 29, 2025
Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh discussed with representatives of international organizations and UN agencies the draft work plan for the National Mine Action Center in Syria and its structure, in line with humanitarian priorities and international practices. During the meeting, the participants underlined the importance of completing a review of the center’s scope ...
- Israel: IDF sapper killed in IED explosion in Gaza Strip
June 29, 2025
The Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday that Sergeant Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld had been killed in action in the the Gaza Strip. According to reports, Rosenfeld was fatally wounded as an explosive detonated. This is the 429th fatality among the Israeli army since the military first launched its ground invasion. Read more… Source: i24News Sign up for Counter-IED Report ...
- Ukraine on track to withdraw from Ottawa anti-personnel mines treaty
June 29, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had signed a decree to pull Ukraine out of the Ottawa Convention banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines as a necessary step in view of Russian tactics in their 40-month-old war. Ukraine ratified the convention in 2005. Other countries bordering Russia, notably Finland, Poland and the three ...
- Pakistan: Two terrorists killed, two arrested in Balochistan’s Duki district
June 29, 2025
Security forces on Sunday killed two terrorists and apprehended two others during an operation in Balochistan’s Duki district, a statement from the military’s media wing said. The statement, issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said that security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the area upon the suspected presence of terrorists.. Weapons, ammunition and ...
- Malian Army Kills Senior ISIS Leader In The Greater Sahara
June 29, 2025
The General Staff of the Malian Armed Forces announced on Saturday the killing of a prominent foreign leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), during a military operation conducted in the Chimame area, approximately 40 kilometers north of Ménaka in western Mali. According to the official statement, the operation was carried out “based ...
- Nigeria: IED explosion kills four, injures 21 others in Yobe State
June 28, 2025
A suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) killed four persons and injured 21 others on Friday, along the Katarko-Goniri Road in the Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. The victims, mostly from the Gotala Community, were on their way to the popular Buniyadi market when their vehicle stepped on the suspected IED. The Gotala community is located ...
- Thailand: Hidden explosives uncovered in sand at Patong Beach
June 28, 2025
Holidaymakers were left rattled as police scoured Phuket’s beaches to unearth a series of hidden explosive devices planted by suspects intent on chaos. Police confirmed yesterday evening, June 27, that the last two devices connected to the suspects’ shocking confession have been safely recovered and neutralised. The first discovery was made at Patong Beach around 3.45pm, ...
- Iraq: Landmine explosion kills shepherd in Erbil Governorate
June 28, 2025
On Saturday, a young man was killed when a landmine exploded in Sidekan district, north of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region. According to the Erbil Directorate of Mine Affairs, Sadiq Osman had entered the area to herd sheep when the explosion occurred, causing his immediate death. Landmines and unexploded ordnance continue to pose a ...
- Pakistan: 13 security personnel martyred in North Waziristan suicide bombing: ISPR
June 28, 2025
Thirteen security personnel were martyred in a suicide bombing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district on Saturday, carried out by Indian proxy Fitna-al-Khawarij, according to a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). According to the military’s media wing, a vehicle-borne suicide attacker targeted a security convoy in the district’s Mir Ali area, before being intercepted ...
- DEVCOM CBC Supports Readiness of CBRN Equipment
June 27, 2025
CB Defense Today is an interview program featuring experts who discuss innovations, technologies, and partnerships relevant to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) and the chemical and biological defense community. In this episode, public affairs specialist Jack Bunja interviews Jorge Christian, Chief of the Sustainment Division at the Center, about ...
- California: 3,300 pounds of illegal fireworks seized, 3 arrested in San Jose police raids
June 27, 2025
San Jose police arrested three men and seized more than 3,300 pounds of illegal fireworks in a series of recent raids, SJPD said Friday. San Jose residents David Benito-Carbajal, 31, Juan Rocha, 52, and Javier Martinez, 26, were arrested and booked into Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of multiple felonies related to the possession of ...
- Maryland: Master Explosive Ordnance Disposal tech completes career at 20th CBRNE Command
June 27, 2025
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – A U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal master sergeant completed his more than two decades of Army service at the nation’s premier multifunctional Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) formation. Master Sgt. Thomas C. Holk retired from the U.S. Army at the 20th CBRNE Command on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, June 23. ...
- Cambodia approaches completion of minefield survey along Thai border
June 27, 2025
Cambodia is nearing the completion of its most extensive minefield survey, which aims to uncover the full extent of explosive contamination along its borders with Thailand, areas heavily affected by decades of conflict. According to Tep Kallyan, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), the survey has been finalised in ...
- IAEA: Update on Developments in Iran
June 27, 2025
Radiation levels in the Gulf region remain normal following the 12-day conflict that severely damaged several nuclear facilities in Iran, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today. Citing regional data reported regularly to the IAEA through the International Radiation Monitoring System (IRMIS), Director General Grossi noted that this 48-nation ...
- Jersey: Royal Navy divers remove “high-explosive projectile” from local waters
June 26, 2025
Royal Navy divers have helped dispose of a “high-explosive projectile” lurking in local waters. The “historic” live ordnance was initially spotted by a civilian diver in the sea at Bouley Bay. A Royal Navy bomb disposal team arrived in Jersey at the weekend and carried out an operation in which the ordnance was located and moved ...
- Cambodia discovers another war-left U.S. aerial bomb M117 in Takeo province
June 26, 2025
Cambodia has found and safely removed another war-left U.S.-made M117 aerial bomb in southern Takeo province, a mine clearance chief said late on Tuesday. Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC)’s Director General Heng Ratana said the massive bomb was spotted buried four meters deep in an area in Tram Kak district. “This M117 bomb, with the weight ...
- New Zealand: Divers disable WWII mines in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf
June 26, 2025
The navy has neutralised a set of World War II-era mines found on the seafloor in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckand. According to the New Zealand Defence Force, the mines were laid during the early parts of the war to protect Waitematā Harbour and the Hauraki Gulf from threats posed by the Japanese and German navies. “It ...
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