- LEON and EOD Level 1 Exploitation Training
October 28, 2024
U.S. Marines with 9th Engineer Support Battalion (ESB), 3rd Marine Logistics Group (MLG), and U.S. Sailors with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Mobile Unit One (EODMU-1), EOD Group One (EODGRU-1), prepare a combat rubber raiding craft during joint and bilateral littoral explosive ordnance neutralization and EOD Level 1 exploitation training as part of exercise Keen Sword ...
- Iraq: Since the beginning of 2024 explosive remnants of war kill 3, injure 7
October 28, 2024
On Monday, an informed security source revealed the toll of victims and injured due to war unexploded ordnance since the beginning of this year in the southern provinces of Iraq. The source told Shafaq News that “the accidents caused by war remnants in Basra, Dhi Qar, Maysan and Muthanna provinces have left three victims and seven ...
- Ireland: Improvised explosive devices seized in Northern Dublin as man arrested
October 28, 2024
Improvised explosive devices were seized in North Dublin on Monday as one man was arrested. As part of ongoing investigations targeting organised criminal activity in North Dublin, Gardaí arrested a man and seized several improvised explosive devices on Monday morning. At approximately 10.30am, Gardaí attached to Coolock Garda Station, assisted by the Armed Support Unit, carried out ...
- NZDF recruits learn to deactivate lethal explosives
October 28, 2024
A new round of New Zealand Defence Force recruits are learning to deactivate lethal explosives to prepare for work in war zones around the world – and bases and camps closer to home. The explosive ordnance disposal trade is a small speciality in our military, where recruits learn to locate, identify, destroy, or deactivate ammunition and ...
- Syria: Unknown combat drones target US bases in Deir ez-Zor and Homs provinces
October 28, 2024
The US military base in Al-Omar oil field in the Deir ez-Zor province, eastern Syria, came under attack on Sunday evening by multiple kamikaze drones, local sources told Anadolu. The sirens were sounded in the area of the military base with US military aircraft flying over the area, the sources added. Later, the US troops deployed ...
- Milipol Qatar 2024: The Premier Global Event for Homeland Security Opens on Tuesday 29 October
October 27, 2024
Doha, Qatar – 27 October, 2024 – Under the high patronage of His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar, the 15th edition of Milipol Qatar, the Global Event for Homeland Security and Safety, organized by the Ministry of Interior, officially opens on Tuesday, October 29 at the Doha ...
- Angola: Trained rodents detect mines for people to farm again
October 27, 2024
“If you come across a snake, it’s best not to get nervous, but to stay calm and wait for it to pass.” The instructions given by paramedic João Eduardo are alarming, especially in latitudes where certain species of viper, cobra, or the feared and deadly black mamba live. However, they sound like an asterisk in a ...
- How Israel can combat the threat of Hezbollah drones
October 27, 2024
Dr. Yehoshua Kalinsky recalls when he fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War as a young officer, the Israeli soldiers were using batteries with M61 machine guns attached to them to shoot down low-flying KELT missiles from Egypt. Kalinsky, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) who specializes in military weaponry, says ...
- Somalia: Explosion in Mogadishu kills three, injures others
October 26, 2024
A landmine explosion in Mogadishu’s Karaan district killed three civilians and wounded multiple others on Saturday, local sources told Garowe Online. The IED blast occurred in the El Ali Gedi area, with the sound reverberating through nearby areas, though the intended target of the attack remains unknown. Karaan district security personnel investigated the incident but have ...
- Texas: Tatum man accused of making homemade explosive devices
October 26, 2024
A Tatum man was arrested on charges that he was creating homemade explosive devices and was in possession of methamphetamine and marijuana. According to Rusk County Sheriff Johnwayne Valdez, the sheriff’s office began an investigation into allegations that Robert Martin, 65, was making explosive devices and concealing them at a property located on County Road 2192. ...
- Israel: One dead, over 30 wounded in Glilot truck ramming
October 26, 2024
Some 33 people were wounded to various degrees, with one succumbing to his wounds after a truck rammed into a bus stop near Glilot in central Israel on Sunday, Israeli emergency medical service Magen David Adom (MDA) reported on Sunday. Later on Sunday, Israeli media reports identified the truck driver to be Rami Nasrallah Nator, an ...
- Pakistan: 8 killed, 5 wounded in suicide bombing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
October 26, 2024
A suicide bomber detonated at a checkpoint in western Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding five more, officials said. The bomber set off the blast from the back of a motorbike rickshaw near the town of Mir Ali in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a local police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity. Four police ...
- UK: Controlled detonation carried out on Guernsey’s south coast
October 26, 2024
Part of a roll bomb found on Guernsey’s south coast was detonated on Saturday morning. The ordnance was discovered at the base of a cliff in Saint’s Bay by a fisherman who reported to Guernsey Police on Friday. Police said the ordnance was “only partially intact” and they had expected it to be “far less powerful” ...
- Israeli Air Force strikes military installations, air defense systems and missile manufacturing facilities in Iran
October 26, 2024
About 900 miles from Israel, in the early hours of Saturday, precisely 25 days after Iran’s ballistic missile attack, reports of explosions in Iran began to emerge at 2:00 AM, signaling the start of Israel’s counterattack. For over three intense hours, across three separate waves, dozens of Israeli Air Force fighter jets and aircraft targeted military ...
- India: Security Forces recover huge cache of arms and explosives in Manipur
October 26, 2024
The security forces working in trouble torn Manipur have come up with huge success as they recovered a substantial cache of arms and explosives from the Bishnupur and Imphal West districts. In a police statement released on Friday claimed that the operation in Uyungmakhong, Bishnupur district, yielded an extensive collection of weaponry, including a SLR 7.62 ...
- Israel: 3 IDF personnel killed in explosion in northern Gaza
October 26, 2024
Capt. Barak Israel Sagan was killed in action on Friday, October 25, 2024, while fighting in northern Gaza. Sagan, 22, from Petah Tikva, served as a platoon commander in the Tank Commanders Course in Battalion 196, “Bnei Or” Brigade (460). He died alongside two of his trainees, Sgt. Hillel Eliyahu Ovadia and Sgt. Ido Ben Zvi. ...
- Iran: 10 border guards killed in terrorist attack in Sistan-Baluchestan province
October 26, 2024
In a tragic incident on Saturday, 10 police officers and soldiers were martyred during an armed clash with assailants in Taftan County in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan. The confrontation unfolded when a police patrol came under attack by unidentified gunmen, leading to intense fighting and the loss of multiple lives among the patrol personnel. ...
- In Ghana, Sahel jihadis find refuge and supplies, sources say
October 26, 2024
Islamist militants fighting in Burkina Faso are discreetly using Ghana’s north as a logistical and medical rear base to sustain their insurgency, seven sources told Reuters, a move that could help them expand their footprint in West Africa. The sources, who include Ghanaian security officials and regional diplomats, said Ghanaian authorities appeared to be mostly turning ...
- UK donates counter-IED equipment to Nigerian military
October 25, 2024
The UK Government on Friday donated advanced counter-Improvised Explosives Devices to Operation Hadin Kai Theatre Command Joint Task Force in Maiduguri. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the donation of the equipment marks another milestone in the strategic partnership between the UK and the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Counter-IED equipment is created primarily for military ...
- Mexico: Car bomb attacks signal escalation of cartel violence
October 25, 2024
Cartel violence is gripping Mexico. In the state of Guerrero, the mayor of Chilpancingo was decapitated. In Sinaloa, a truck was discovered with at least five bodies along with the ominous message “Welcome to Culiacán.” And now Guanajuato has been shaken by two explosions. Police in the city of Acámbaro reported a car bomb attack outside ...
- From a supported country to a Global Leader in Mine Action: Cambodia’s Goal of a World Free of Landmines
October 25, 2024
Over the 20 years of the Vietnam War and the subsequent conflict, approximately 2.75 million tons of bombs were dropped on Cambodia, and an estimated 4 to 6 million landmines were buried. Following the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) was established by the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) to ...
- UK: Second unexploded bomb found in Bootle
October 24, 2024
An unexploded bomb has been found at a construction site in Merseyside. The device was discovered on North Atlantic Avenue in Bootle, the same street in which an unexploded World War Two bomb was unearthed on Tuesday. Merseyside Police said it had a report of “unexploded ordnance” on a building site at about 11:45 BST. The ...
- Pakistan: Security forces kill nine terrorists, including two suicide bombers in Bajaur
October 24, 2024
Pakistan’s security forces killed nine terrorists, including two suicide bombers, during an operation in the Bajaur district, according to the military’s media wing, ISPR. The operation was conducted on the night of October 23-24, following intelligence reports of the militants’ presence in the area. Following an intense exchange of fire, nine terrorists were killed. Among those ...
- Terror Watch: It’s Time to Rethink Our Relationship With Qatar
October 24, 2024
As the horrific scenes of the terrorist Hamas attack on Israel played out on social media, with videos of mutilated corpses, gang rapes and abductions, Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh—safe and likely in his penthouse hideaway in Doha—celebrated and prayed over the successful massacre of over 1,200 people. The Qatari Foreign Ministry said it held Israel “solely ...
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