News – October 2023


  • 300 More U.S. Troops Deploy to U.S. Central Command

    October 31, 2023

    An additional 300 U.S. troops will deploy to the U.S. Central Command area of operations from the continental United States, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said today. These troops will provide capabilities in explosive ordnance disposal, communications and other support functions for forces already in the region. These forces will not go ...

  • California: Man arrested after throwing pipe bombs at San Francisco patrol car during pursuit

    October 31, 2023

    A man has been arrested for allegedly knocking a parishioner unconscious inside a San Francisco Catholic church and throwing pipe bombs at a patrol car during a car chase, authorities said Monday. The 42-year-old Concord man was arrested Sunday by California Highway Patrol officers in Martinez, east of San Francisco, following a 30-minute pursuit, San Francisco ...

  • Yemen’s Houthis say they launched missiles, drones at Israel

    October 31, 2023

    Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group said it launched a “large number” of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Tuesday, after Israel’s military said it downed an approaching “aerial target” off the Red Sea city of Eilat. The operation was the third targeting Israel and there would be more, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a ...

  • What we know about Hamas’ huge rocket arsenal

    October 31, 2023

    The military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement has debuted a new torpedo, said to have been used for the first time in combat against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as war continues to consume the Gaza Strip. It’s only the latest addition, however, in a large, diverse and expanding arsenal of weapons that the ...

  • EOD Airmen bring innovation to a changing battlespace

    October 31, 2023

    JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – Airmen with the 87th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit partnered with the Innovation Lab here to streamline the process of making more realistic training ordnance. “The delay from ordnance hitting the battlespace to us being able to get a commercially relevant, readily available product is a slow process,” ...

  • 9th Annual Defence Logistics Central and Eastern Europe Conference

    October 31, 2023

    18 – 19 March 2024 Budapest, Hungary http://www.defence-logisticscee.com/CounterIEDWL #DEFLOG Optimising Logistics Support as a Force Enabler for the Central and Eastern European Region SAE Media Group is proud to present the 8th Annual Defence Logistics Central and Eastern Europe Conference on the 18 – 19 of March 2024 in Prague, Czech Republic. As cooperation between armed forces, and the prevalence ...

  • France: Police open fire on woman who ‘made threats’ in Paris train station

    October 31, 2023

    According to witnesses the 38-year-old woman, who was completely veiled, shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is Greatest”) and “made threats”, a police source said, adding that “police fired because they feared for their safety”. After passengers on a suburban train travelling from the eastern suburbs to Paris alerted police, agents managed to “isolate” the woman at the ...

  • Israel’s ‘Weasel’ commandos prepare for highly dangerous assault on Hamas underground defences

    October 31, 2023

    Israel’s military has developed a range of specialist tunnel fighters including killer drones and attack dogs to take on Hamas’s huge underground network. Officials on Tuesday revealed its forces attacked Hamas gunmen inside the vast tunnel network beneath the Palestinian enclave, estimated by some to rival in length London’s Tube network. Specialist teams made up of ...

  • Colorado: Man found dead at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park had multiple bombs, semi-automatic weapons

    October 30, 2023

    The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a heavily armed man found dead Saturday morning at the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs. Authorities have not named the suspect, but a statement issued Monday afternoon identified him as a 20-year-old man from the Carbondale area. “He was dressed in black colored tactical ...

  • Cambodia: Kingdom’s noble ambition to be landmine free on the right path

    October 30, 2023

    The central province, famous for its palm sugar and wine, became the 13th province in the country to be cleared of landmines. Phnom Penh and 11 other provinces have been declared mine-free. These include Stung Treng, Kep, Prey Veng, Preah Sihanouk, Tboung Khmum, Kampong Cham, Svay Rieng, Kampong Chhnang, Kandal, Takeo and Kampot. Speaking yesterday at ...

  • Nigeria: Explosion rocks Rivers Assembly amid threat to impeach Gov Fubara

    October 30, 2023

    An explosion hit the Rivers State House of Assembly complex on Sunday night. DAILY POST gathered that some suspected arsonists threw an explosive into the complex around 9:25 pm. The incident came amid rumours of alleged moves by some lawmakers to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Read more… Source: Daily Post  

  • Kenya: Two GSU officers killed, 4 injured in IED attack in Garissa

    October 30, 2023

    At least two General Service Unit officers were killed and four others seriously injured on Monday morning when a remote-controlled bomb hit their vehicle in Dadaab, Garissa County. Police said the attack took place at Ege Dam along Dadaab-Garissa road when the officers were headed to provide security during the ongoing national exams. The vehicle was ...

  • India, Malaysia conduct joint military exercise in Shillong

    October 30, 2023

    A Joint Exercise between India & Malaysia is progressing with full steam covering the vast canvas of multi domain operations in sub conventional environments at the Foreign Training Node in Shillong’s Umroi Cantonment, officials said on Monday. Lt. Col. Mahendra Rawat, PRO defence at Guwahati said that with an aim of achieving interoperability, the personnel ...

  • Israeli forces strike over 600 Hamas terror targets

    October 30, 2023

    The IDF says it struck over 600 terror targets in the past days in Gaza as the ground operations develop in the Strip. “During clashes with terrorists in the Gaza Strip, IDF troops killed dozens of terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings and tunnels, and attempted to attack the troops,” the IDF said. Videos and ...

  • Morocco: Four blasts in Western Sahara kill one

    October 29, 2023

    Four explosions in the city of Smara in Morocco-controlled Western Sahara late on Saturday killed one man and injured three others, Moroccan local authorities said. The blasts damaged two houses, authorities said in a statement, without adding further details. The judicial police was investigating the source and nature of the projectiles that hit the residential area, ...

  • India: Kerala’s Ernakulam district blast caused by IED or IID

    October 29, 2023

    The blast during a Christian prayer meeting in Kerala’s Ernakulam district on Sunday, which killed one person and injured 36 others, was caused by an improvised explosive device, or IED, said the state police chief. But, according to highly placed sources, investigators are also looking at the possibility that an “incendiary device” – improvised incendiary ...

  • Syria: Simultaneous attacks conducted on US bases in Deir ez-Zor and al- Hasakah provinces

    October 29, 2023

    Simultaneous attacks were carried out Saturday in the provinces of eastern Syria on oil field bases where US forces are located. Ten attacks were conducted after midnight, on the Omar oil field and Harab Cir bases in Deir ez-Zor and al- Hasakah provinces using ground-to-ground weapons by the US military. Meanwhile, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of ...

  • UK: Metropolitan police to increase intelligence gathering in London schools amid Gaza tensions

    October 29, 2023

    Metropolitan police officers have been instructed to increase intelligence-gathering activities at London schools in response to the Israel-Hamas war, ramping up concerns among human rights groups about the surveillance of children. Officers were briefed to “increase their visible patrols” at schools and engage with school staff in order to obtain information about “community tensions”, according to ...

  • Drone Proliferation in the Conflict Zones: Who are the Suppliers and Users?

    October 28, 2023

    The 7 October 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks have increased tension in the Middle East, and attacks by Iran-backed militia groups threaten United States (US) officials, interests, and American military bases. These groups have already launched multiple drone attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria. US officials are worried about being exposed to a ramping-up of ...

  • Pakistan: Two Army troops martyred in South Waziristan IED blast

    October 28, 2023

    Two Pakistan Army troops were martyred in an IED blast in general area Sarwekai, South Waziristan district. The Inter Services Public Relations in a statement said Sepoy Banaras Khan and Sepoy Abdul Karim embraced martyrdom in the attack. Meanwhile, an intelligence based operation was conducted in general area Tirah, Khyber District and after intense exchange of ...

  • Libya: Interior Ministry conducts training course in crime scene management

    October 28, 2023

    The Interior Ministry says it has concluded a training course in crime scene management at explosion accident sites and first aid. The Ministry said the course aims to prepare Libyan professional trainers in the field of crime scene management. Read more… Source: Libya Observer  

  • Egypt reveals details of Taba, Nuweiba incidents

    October 28, 2023

    Egypt’s military spokesperson Colonel Gharib Abdel-Hafez announced new details regarding the two incidents of a foreign projectile falling in Nuweiba and a drone in Taba. The military spokesperson has revealed that the two drones were heading from the south of the Red Sea to the north. One of them was targeted for outside Egyptian airspace in ...

  • IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 191

    October 27, 2023

    International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts have assessed the damage caused by this week’s powerful explosions near Ukraine’s Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant (KhNPP), observing 26 broken windows but reporting no impact on nuclear safety and security at the site, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. The IAEA team present at the KhNPP has conducted a ...

  • US Army EOD technicians train with allies during Exercise Ardent Defender in Canada

    October 27, 2023

    5TH CANADIAN DIVISION SUPPORT BASE GAGETOWN, New Brunswick, Canada – U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians are training with military personnel from eight partner nations during Exercise Ardent Defender at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown in New Brunswick, Canada, Oct. 20 – Nov. 2. EOD techs from the Fort Liberty, North Carolina-based 192nd Ordnance Battalion ...