- India: Security forces destroy 601 acres of poppy cultivation, seize 9-kg IED
December 21, 2025
Security forces have destroyed about 601 acres of illegal poppy cultivation across Manipur over the past five days, from December 16 to 20, and recovered a 9-kg improvised explosive device (IED) in Thoubal district on Saturday, police said. The biggest crackdown was carried out in Manipur’s Ukhrul district, where security forces destroyed 559 acres of illegal ...
- Spain: One soldier dead and another injured after explosion at the Álvarez de Sotomayor army base in Almeria
October 31, 2025
Private Daniel Ruiz Mateo, assigned to the Command of the ‘Álvarez de Sotomayor’ Manoeuvring and Shooting Range, in Viator (Almeria), died this Friday, 31 October, after an explosion occurred at the military facilities at around 11.00 am. Private Alejandro Carvajal Povedano, of the same unit, has been injured and has been transferred to a hospital where ...
- Solomon Islands: Bomb explodes at Townground area
October 31, 2025
An unexploded ordinance (UXO) went off this evening, Thursday, at Town Ground, West Honiara causing a huge bang and fear within the vicinity. Reports reaching Solomon Star said, the explosion occurred closed to the Scripture Union building along the Lengakiki road right opposite the Town-ground rugby field. A person was reportedly injured as a result of ...
- Ukraine: Explosion at Ukrposhta sorting center in Kyiv, police detain suspect
October 31, 2025
Police have detained a man involved in the explosion at one of the sorting centers of Ukrposhta, Ukraine`s National Post, in the Solomianskyi district on October 30. The suspect is a 40-year-old resident of Ternopil who attempted to send ammunition as a souvenir. Police recalled that on the evening of October 30, an explosion occurred at ...
- Yemen: Executive Mine Action Center destroys war remnants in Hodeidah
October 31, 2025
The Executive Center for Mine Action carried out an operation today to destroy large quantities of war remnants—including landmines, cluster munitions, and other explosives—north of the Kilo 16 area in Hodeidah city. The operation was supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross and held under the slogan “Safe Land.” Hodeidah’s Deputy Governor for Services ...
- Solomon Islands: Over 6k UXOs disposed off in 2024
October 30, 2025
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Unit of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) has safely disposed of 6,121 unexploded ordnances (UXOs) nation-wide in 2024. Of this total, 3,200 UXOs were cleared in Western Province under Operation Render Safe. Officer-in-Charge of the EOD Unit, Ansa Puaraua, revealed the figures during his presentation at the National UXO ...
- UK pledges £4m to clear land mines to help flow of aid in Gaza
October 30, 2025
The UK will give £4m to help clear landmines from parts of Gaza so more aid can get in, the foreign secretary has announced. It will be used by the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) to demine areas preventing the safe passage of aid. There are an estimated 7,500 tonnes of unexploded munitions currently stopping ...
- Kashmir: NDRF conducts Table-Top Exercise on CBRN in Kargil
October 30, 2025
In view of the upcoming mock exercise on Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN), the 13th Battalion, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) conducted a Table Top Exercise (TTE) today at Conference Hall Baroo today. The table-top exercise aimed at strengthening preparedness, coordination and communication among various response agencies in handling potential CBRN emergencies. It served as ...
- Syria: Jolani-Affiliated Militants Accused of Sectarian Crime Against Syrian Shia
October 29, 2025
The Center for Documenting Violations Against Shia in Syria strongly condemns the horrific crime committed by armed gangs affiliated with the criminal Jolani in the Ghazlaniyah area of Damascus countryside. The attack claimed the life of citizen Atallah Al-Qattan, a member of the Shia community, after the assailants fired fourteen bullets into his body—a barbaric act ...
- Sudan: RSF kills ‘at least 1,500 people’ in western Darfur region
October 29, 2025
Scores of people have been killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a medical group and researchers. The RSF, which has been fighting Sudan’s military for control of the country, killed at least 1,500 people over the past ...
- Ireland: Arrest made over anthrax hoax targeting associate of news site’s editor
October 29, 2025
Gardai have arrested a man over an anthrax hoax aimed at an associate of the editor of Ireland’s leading conservative news site. The Irish Mirror reports that gardai believe the woman who was the victim of the hoax sent to a Co Limerick school earlier this month was targeted because of her connection to John McGuirk, ...
- Philippines: Special Action Force arrests bomb expert of Dawlah Islmiyah-Hassan Group in Sultan Kudarat
October 29, 2025
Elite policemen from the Special Action Force (SAF) arrested a suspected bombmaker of the Dawlah Islamiyah- Hassan Group during an operation in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat. Police Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez, Jr., acting chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said the operation started at around 11 p.m. on Tuesday when police intelligence agents confirmed the ...
- Syria: Three soldiers injured while clearing mines in Homs and Hama countryside
October 28, 2025
Three Syrian soldiers were injured while carrying out demining operations in the countryside of Homs near the Syrian-Lebanese border and in the town of Kafr Nabouda in Hama countryside, military source said Tuesday. “Three soldiers from the engineering units of the Syrian Arab Army were injured and a mine-clearing vehicle was damaged during the mission to ...
- Brazil: At least 60 dead including four police officers, in operation against organised crime in Rio de Janeir
October 28, 2025
About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials said. The operation included officers in helicopters and armored vehicles and targeted the notorious Red Command in the ...
- UK: Man convicted of making explosive and poisonous substances
October 28, 2025
A man who was found with a large amount of dangerous chemicals in his garden shed has been convicted of various offences linked to explosive and poisonous substances. Harry Whittaker, aged 31, was arrested on 6 May 2024 after Bedfordshire Police officers searched his home address in Caddington. Whittaker came to police attention after he was ...
- Pakistan: 10 security men injured as Kech DC survives IED blast in Turbat
October 28, 2025
Nine Levies officials and a pedestrian were injured in a roadside explosion that targeted the convoy of the Kech deputy commissioner in Turbat on Monday. In a separate incident, dozens of armed men invaded a town in Kacchi district and set the police station on fire, before escaping after a heavy gun battle with the police. ...
- US military strikes 4 boats in the Pacific, killing 14, in ramp-up of campaign against alleged drug trafficking
October 28, 2025
The US military conducted strikes against four more boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 14 people on board the vessels, with one survivor, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. It marked the first time multiple strikes were conducted on the same day as part of the Trump administration’s accelerating campaign against boats ...
- Ireland: Garda team observes Europol’s simulated counter-terrorism naval exercise
October 27, 2025
The Garda Emergency Response Unit observed a week-long simulated counter-terrorism naval exercise organised by Sweden and the EU police agency Europol. Ten member states took part in the various exercises, and three states — including Ireland — were there as observers. The exercise, codenamed ‘Trident’, was carried out in the Stockholm archipelago and was part of ...
- UK: Embassy bomb threat ‘was graffiti art’ court told
October 27, 2025
A man who left “sophisticated graffiti art” outside the US Embassy as a “gift” has denied making a hoax bomb threat. Daniel Parmenter, 44, who lives with his mother in Bayswater, west London, had left a collection of items – including an iPad with taped down firework wires – on the morning of 22 November 2024, ...
- Somalia: Founding al-Shabaab member killed in Middle Jubba airstrike
October 27, 2025
A senior al-Shabaab commander and founding member of the militant group was killed in a Somali government airstrike in Middle Jubba, the Defence Ministry announced Monday. The ministry said the strike, conducted on the night of October 26, targeted Bu’aale, a known militant stronghold, and killed Mahmoud Abdi Hamud, widely known as Jaafar Gurey. Officials said ...
- Iraq: KRG’s Mine Action Completes Major Mine Clearance in Tanjaro, Slemani
October 27, 2025
On Monday, 27 October 2025, as part of its ongoing efforts, the Iraqi Kurdistan Mine Action Agency (IKMAA) Slemani Office, through the Committee for the Handover of Cleared Minefields, officially handed over a piece of land that was formerly a farm named “Mahmoud Khan.” The land is located in the village of Qrga, within the ...
- Ukraine expects 14th aid package from Croatia soon, 15th by year end
October 27, 2025
Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal met in Kyiv with Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ivan Anušić, thanking him for providing 13 military aid packages worth over EUR 200 million. “We expect the 14th aid package to arrive soon and the 15th by the end of this year,” Shmyhal said on X. During the meeting, ...
- Tennessee: Chemical Safety Board to investigate deadly explosion at munitions facility
October 27, 2025
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board will investigate the explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems near Bucksnort that killed 16 people. “This is one of the deadliest industrial incidents in our country in years,” said Steve Owens, the chairperson of the Chemical Safety Board, in a news release Monday. “The (Chemical Safety Board) investigators will ...
- Autumn 2025 edition of the Counter-IED Report magazine is now available to read online and in print
October 27, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Autumn 2025 edition of the Counter-IED Report magazine is now available to read online and in print. Articles, in-depth analysis and insights from Assessed Mitigation Options (AMO) consultancy, Subject Matter Experts in C-IED and Technical Exploitation, University of the Bundeswehr Munich – Institute for Structural Engineering, RK Consulting (EOD) Ltd, ...
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