- Las Vegas Metropolitan Police investigates bombing at Piero’s restaurant
November 13, 2025
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police are investigating a small explosion Thursday after an “improvised explosive device” was left near Piero’s Italian Cuisine on Convention Center Drive. Police said no one was injured. LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill told members of the media two men dressed in all black arrived at Piero’s around 2:19 a.m. One of the suspects ...
- Slovakia: 3rd ETACS Project Workshop 2025 held at EOD COE in Trenčín
November 13, 2025
The Technology Development Department of the NATO Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of Excellence (EOD COE) organized the 3rd ETACS Workshop on October 27–28, 2025, in Trenčín, Slovakia. The event brought together EOD experts from the United States, Slovakia, Denmark and Hungary, as well as dedicated IT specialists from Poland and the Czech Republic. Read more… Source: NATO EOD ...
- India: From Kashmir poster to Delhi car blast, how the attack unfolded
November 13, 2025
Twenty-six days before a huge blast ripped through a crowded thoroughfare in Delhi, killing 13 people, a pamphlet with a green letterhead had appeared in Nowgam, a staid neighbourhood of cinder-block homes and rutted streets on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city. Drafted in broken Urdu, the letter proclaimed affiliation with Jaish-e-Muhammad, a proscribed ...
- Pakistan: Security agencies arrest ‘facilitator, handler’ of Islamabad suicide attack
November 13, 2025
As the probe into the Islamabad Judicial Complex suicide bombing inched forward, security agencies on Thursday detained a handler and a facilitator believed to be linked to the attack, sources said. The sources said that the facilitator, living in Rawalpindi for the past month, was arrested from Pindi while the handler was detained from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. ...
- Thailand: Bomb disposal unit clears 7 landmines in Sa Kaeo over 2 days
November 13, 2025
On November 13, 2025, a report from the First Army Region stated that the Burapha Task Force, in collaboration with the Humanitarian Mine Action Unit 1 and the 2nd Engineer Regiment, successfully cleared 7 landmines in the Ban Nong Chan, Sa Kaeo province. The operation, which started on November 11, 2025, focused on clearing a suspected ...
- UK tests response to discovery of deadly biological toxin
November 12, 2025
The UK has tested an emergency response to the discovery of a deadly biological toxin. Up to 600 members of the military, police, ambulance and other services took part in the three-day exercise last week, which also involved dealing with a number of improvised bombs. The annual simulation is part of efforts to ensure the readiness ...
- Spain: National Police deactivated mortar shell found on the University of Huelva campus
November 12, 2025
The National Police has deactivated a mortar shell located on the campus of the University of Huelva. The device – which showed obvious signs of oxidation and deterioration – has been neutralized by specialists from the TEDAX-CBRN, the unit specialized in the deactivation of explosive devices, by means of a controlled detonation at a safe ...
- Ukraine to create interagency national underwater mine clearance group
November 12, 2025
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine, in partnership with the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture and other key mine action stakeholders, will create the first interagency national group of underwater mine clearance instructors, the press service of the Ministry of Economy reported. According to the report, the group consists of fifteen instructors who ...
- Thailand: Defence forces chief vows to complete mine clearance in all 13 Thai-Cambodian border zones
November 12, 2025
Gen Ukris Boontanondha, Chief of Defence Forces of Thailand, reaffirmed on Wednesday his commitment to completing the mine clearance mission along the Thai-Cambodian border, saying the operation will continue across all 13 designated areas to ensure the safety of civilians and frontline soldiers. “We are currently working on five pilot areas and will move on to ...
- UK: Army bomb experts detonate explosives found at property
November 12, 2025
Old commercial explosives used in demolition work were taken from a property in Mid Wales and detonated safely on a beach, police and the British Army have confirmed. On Monday, November 10, HM Coastguard Borth revealed it had assisted in the detonation of an object at Ynyslas beach, near Borth. The Army said an Explosive Ordnance ...
- European Commission weighs creation of intelligence arm amid global tensions
November 11, 2025
The European Commission is considering setting up a dedicated intelligence cell to strengthen security amid geopolitical difficulties, an EU spokesperson said on Tuesday, adding that the initiative is still at an early stage. “We are in a challenging geopolitical and geoeconomic environment, and the Commission, because of this, is examining how to strengthen its security and ...
- Belgium: Explosion outside house in Antwerp
November 11, 2025
There has been an explosion outside the garage of a house on the Houthulststraat in the Antwerp district of Merksem. The explosion happened at around 5:30am. The no significant damage was caused and the Antwerp Local Police Service reports that it is not aware of any casualties. Federal police forensics experts have visited the scene of the ...
- Pakistan: At least 12 killed, 27 injured in suicide blast outside district court in Islamabad’s G-11
November 11, 2025
At least twelve people were killed and 27 people were injured on Tuesday in a suicide blast outside the district and sessions court building in Islamabad’s G-11 area, according to officials. The death toll was initially confirmed to Dawn by a senior Islamabad police official. Later, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi briefed the media outside the court, ...
- India: At least 12 people killed, 20 injured in car explosion in Delhi
November 11, 2025
Delhi Police and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) are investigating Monday evening’s Red Fort blast as a potential terror attack. Authorities have identified Dr Umar Nabi, a doctor from Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir, as the driver of the car that exploded, killing at least 12 people and injuring 20. DNA samples from his mother have ...
- UK: Bomb disposal unit called to Oxford park after grenade found
November 11, 2025
A ‘rusty’ grenade has been found by a fisherman in Oxford with the bomb squad called to deal with the historic weapon. Thames Valley Police said the bomb squad – Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) – dealt with the grenade found in Sunnymead Park on Sunday (November 9). Zoe Hunter, a fisherman with the Thame Magnet Fishing ...
- Togo: Protecting civilians from the risks of Improvised Explosive Devices
November 11, 2025
As part of its support to the Togolese government to strengthen the protection of civilian populations in the north of the country against the risk posed by explosive devices, including Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), implemented several activities, ...
- UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns
November 11, 2025
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The UK’s decision marks a significant break from its closest ally and ...
- Pakistan: Security forces kill 2 terrorists after attack on Wana Cadet College
November 10, 2025
At least two terrorists were killed during an attack on Cadet College Wana in South Waziristan on Monday as security forces conducted a clearance operation at the educational facility, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The military’s media wing said the initial attempt by the terrorists to breach the perimeter security was foiled by the “vigilant ...
- Jammu and Kashmir: Police recover 2,900 kg of explosive material in multi-state raids
November 10, 2025
Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday claimed a major success against militancy by busting an inter-state militant module of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH) outfits and arresting seven persons, including two doctors. The police stated that 2,900 kg of IED-making material had been recovered. A police spokesperson, while giving details of the anti-militancy operation, ...
- Thailand suspends Malaysia-brokered peace deal with Cambodia after landmine blast injures two soldiers
November 10, 2025
Thailand’s fragile peace deal with Cambodia is hanging by a thread after two Thai soldiers were seriously injured in a landmine explosion near the border, prompting Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to suspend the agreement barely a month after it was signed. The soldiers were on routine patrol in Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province today when they ...
- Bangladesh: Police arrest suspect in bomb attacks on Catholic sites
November 10, 2025
Dhaka police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with homemade bomb attacks that targeted a Catholic cathedral and a Church-run school in Bangladesh’s capital this month. Police investigators identified the suspect as a member of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the banned student wing of the Awami League, the political party of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. ...
- UK deploys anti-drone specialists to Belgium after string of incursions
November 9, 2025
The UK will send anti-drone equipment and personnel to Belgium following a series of sightings near airports and military bases in recent weeks, Chief of the Defence Staff Richard Knighton said during a television interview on Sunday. Over the past week, Belgium’s main international airport in Brussels and Liège, one of Europe’s largest cargo airports, have ...
- Cambodia: Humanitarian demining operation to strictly uphold sovereignty, territorial integrity, and mutual respect
November 9, 2025
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) and the Thai Mine Action Centre (TMAC) held a technical meeting at 12:05 p.m. on Nov. 7 to assess a pilot area in the priority border zone for humanitarian demining operations, according to Lt. Gen. Maly Socheata, Spokeswoman of the Ministry of National Defence. The pilot area is located in ...
- Nigeria: Police train officers to handle explosives, nuclear threats
November 9, 2025
The Nigeria Police Force has trained 325 personnel on the handling of Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear threats. The participants were drawn from police commands across the 36 states of the federation. The four-week intensive course took place at the Police Mobile Force Training College, Ende Hills, Nassarawa-Eggon Local Government Area of ...
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