- New Zealand: Homemade explosive device discovered at New Lynn reserve
March 6, 2024
A “metal pipe bomb” was discovered at a New Lynn reserve this afternoon, prompting a response from police and the New Zealand Defence Force. Police said a person found a small homemade explosive device in a reserve near their home on Seabrook Ave shortly after 2pm. Read more… Source: NZ Herald
- Afghanistan: Blast rocks security base in Faizabad
March 6, 2024
A blast shook a Taliban military base near the airport in Faizabad, the capital of Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province, but without causing casualties, officials said on Tuesday. The Taliban official confirmed on condition of anonymity that an explosion had occurred at the base but would not provide further details. A roadside IED exploded near the base ...
- Mexico: Three farmers killed by roadside bomb in Michoacan days after four soldiers die in explosive “trap”
March 6, 2024
Three farmers were killed Tuesday by a bomb apparently planted in a dirt road in the cartel-dominated western Mexico state of Michoacan, marking the second time in just five days that hidden explosive devices have caused multiple fatalities in the region. A state security official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said the ...
- Cambodia: Mine Authority and GICHD sign MOU on cooperation in the risk management of explosive remnants of war
March 6, 2024
The Mine Action Authority and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Residual Contamination Management in Cambodia on March 5, 2024. Senior Minister Ly Thuch, First Vice President of the Mine Authority and Chairman of the 2024 Ottawa Convention, presided over the signing ceremony, which was held ...
- Yemen: Suspected Houthi rebels attack damages ship in the Gulf of Aden
March 6, 2024
A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged a ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, authorities said, the latest in a campaign of assaults by the group over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The attack targeted a Barbados-flagged bulk carrier called True Confidence, which earlier had been hailed over radio by ...
- Mozambique: Dozens of children missing after jihadist attacks in Cabo Delgado province
March 6, 2024
More than 70 children are reported missing in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province following a series of jihadist attacks, local authorities have confirmed. These children became separated from their families amidst the chaos as thousands of people were forced to flee to a neighboring province in recent weeks. There are growing concerns that the missing children ...
- Haiti: Gangs try to seize control of main airport as thousands escape prisons
March 5, 2024
Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons. Hours after the airport assault, officials said Haiti’s police academy came under ...
- Belgium: Five houses damaged in explosion near to Antwerp’s Sportpaleis, three lorries torched at Antwerp docks
March 5, 2024
At around 11pm on Monday the Tweemontstraat, near to the Sportpaleis events centre was shaken by an explosion. At least 5 houses were damaged in the blast. A parked car also sustained damage in the explosion. A local resident told VRT News that first a fire was started at the front door of a house and ...
- Yemen: U.S. Central Command forces repel attack on USS Carney, destroy missiles and unmanned surface vessels
March 5, 2024
TAMPA, Fla. – On March 5, between the hours of 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces shot down one anti-ship ballistic missile and three one-way attack unmanned aerial systems launched from Iranian-backed Houthi controlled areas of Yemen toward USS Carney (DDG 64) in the Red Sea. There are no injuries ...
- Finland to send expert to support Ukraine in preparing for CBRN risks
March 5, 2024
Ukraine has requested assistance through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism in preparing for threats related to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents. Finland responds to the request by sending an expert to join the EU’s international team. The Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC), operating under the European Commission, has put together an international team to support ...
- British troops operating on the ground in Ukraine
March 5, 2024
Leaked communications involving high-level German government and military figures appear to confirm that British army personnel are engaged on the ground in Ukraine. An unencrypted telephone call intercepted and leaked to Russian broadcaster RT suggested British troops were helping the defending forces in the use of Storm Shadow cruise missiles the UK has supplied to help ...
- Israel: IDF destroys largest terror tunnel uncovered in northern Gaza
March 5, 2024
The IDF destroyed on Tuesday the largest terror tunnel that was uncovered in northern Gaza since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, the military announced on that morning. The tunnel extends about four kilometers long and ends near the Erez crossing but does not cross into Israeli territory. It was initially discovered in mid-December of last ...
- Germany: Tesla’s giant Berlin factory without power after arsonists attack electricity supply
March 5, 2024
Power supply to Tesla’s factory near Berlin has been cut following an arson attack on a high-voltage electricity pylon nearby, a German official said Tuesday. “If the initial findings are confirmed, this is a perfidious attack on our electricity infrastructure. This will have consequences,” Michael Stuebgen, the interior minister for the state of Brandenburg, said in ...
- Ukrainian Drone Boats Sink Russian Navy Patrol Ship
March 5, 2024
Ukraine continues to strike blows against the Russian Black Sea Fleet, with the latest victim being the Project 22160 patrol ship Sergei Kotov, which was the target of an overnight attack involving uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), or ‘drone boats.’ The same vessel had come under USV attack before, with Russia claiming to have foiled an effort ...
- Indonesia: Explosion at East Java Brimob office injures 10
March 4, 2024
An explosion at the bomb disposal office of the East Java Regional Police Mobile Brigade’s (Brimob’s) Gegana Detachment here on Monday left ten officers injured, Chief of the East Java Police Inspector General Imam Sugianto said. “I affirmed that there are no casualties, and the only victims are the ten injured officers,” Sugianto told the press ...
- Pakistan: Militant attacks spiked by 72 percent in Balochistan during February
March 4, 2024
Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province saw a 72 percent increase in militant attacks during February, mostly as banned outfits targeted political parties’ election activities in days leading up to the polls, the managing director of a Pakistani think tank said on Sunday. The security situation in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province remained precarious in February, especially in the ...
- Belgium: Four teens arrested for planning terrorist attack in Brussels
March 4, 2024
Three minors and an adult were arrested in Belgium on terrorism charges on Sunday, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office said on Monday. Federal judicial police from Liège, Brussels, Charleroi and Ghent conducted searches on Sunday morning as part of ongoing investigations. Police seized phones and laptops but found no weapons. Read more… Source: Politico
- Cyprus at risk of terror attack
March 4, 2024
The foreign ministry has not allayed concerns that Cyprus is at risk for a terror attack over the use of the British Bases, Diko MP Christos Orphanides charged on Monday. Orphanides had written to permanent secretary of the foreign ministry Kyriacos Kouros, arguing that the use of the Akrotiri bases as a launchpad to attack Houthi ...
- ATMIS steps up training to counter explosive devices in Somalia
March 4, 2024
The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) announced Monday that its 14 troops have completed a month-long training to counter the evolving threat posed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have become a weapon of choice for terrorists. The training was facilitated by the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), a key partner to the ...
- Israeli security services foil Hebron terror cell planning ISIS-inspired bomb attacks
March 4, 2024
Security forces have foiled a terrorist squad which produced 100 improvised explosive devices and planned bomb attacks with the assistance of the Islamic State , according to a statement released Monday. The Shin Bet security agency conducted the operation jointly with the IDF and Israel Police ad said that they apprehended the terrorists in February, arresting ...
- UK: Unexploded ordnance on Cornwall beach ‘made safe’
March 4, 2024
Police said an item of unexploded ordnance found by a member of the pubic on a Cornwall beach has been made safe. Devon and Cornwall Police said they were called at about 11:15 GMT on Sunday to Widemouth Bay in Bude. Officers put a 300m (985ft) cordon in place and said it did not affect homes ...
- Europe battles gunpowder shortage amid Ukraine war
March 3, 2024
Hard-to-find gunpowder is hindering Europe’s scramble to provide hundreds of thousands of shells for Ukraine’s defensive effort against Russian invaders, with solutions only starting to emerge. Gunpowder goes into propellant charges that hurl artillery shells — such as the NATO-standard 155mm projectiles used in many guns sent to Ukraine — over distances of tens of kilometers. ...
- Mexico: Four soldiers killed in ‘trap’ in Michoacán
March 1, 2024
An improvised explosive device killed at least four soldiers in what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday was a “trap” likely set by a drug cartel. The soldiers were killed Thursday on the outskirts of the city of Aguililla in the embattled Mexican state of Michoacán, López Obrador said in a weekly news conference. He ...
- India: CCTV video shows moments before explosion hit Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe
March 1, 2024
As the investigations into the improvised explosive device (IED) blast at Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe is underway, multiple CCTV videos showing moments before the explosion hit the popular eatery have surfaced. A blast rocked Rameshwaram Cafe, one of the popular eating outlet in the IT city’s Whitefield area, at around 1 pm on Friday. Nine people were ...
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