- Iraq: Five Peshmerga dead and four injured in ISIS Diyala attack
November 28, 2021
Five Peshmerga were killed and five injured in an Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Diyala province on Saturday, a Peshmerga source told Rudaw Sunday morning. Militants attacked the Peshmerga in the ...
- India: Militant arrested with explosives in Imphal
November 27, 2021
A combined team of district police commando unit, Imphal East and 15 Assam Rifles, on Thursday arrested one active cadre of proscribed underground organisation PREPAK(Pro) along with improvised explosive device ...
- Azerbaijan: ADA University, British Embassy in Baku organize lecture on land mine clearance in Karabakh
November 26, 2021
ADA University and the British Embassy in Baku have co-organized the online lecture on “Land mines in Karabakh. Seeking solutions”. The discussion was held in the framework of “Global Perspective Lecture ...
- Australia: Police seize cache of guns, bombs from property on Sydney’s outskirts
November 25, 2021
Police say a doomsday prepper who allegedly amassed dozens of guns and 250 kilograms of explosive material at his home on Sydney’s outskirts put the community at risk of a ...
- Bolivia: Explosion at the entrance to the headquarters of the Bishops’ Conference
November 25, 2021
The General Secretariat of the Bolivian Bishops ‘Conference (CEB) reported the explosion of a bomb, which occurred early in the morning of Wednesday 24 November, at the entrance to the ...
- Alabama: Man facing multiple charges after suspected improvised explosive devices found in vehicle on I-65
November 25, 2021
Calera Police Chief David Hyche said a person is facing charges of possession of destructive devices and DUI after two suspected improvised explosive devices were found in a vehicle on ...
- Somalia: Eight killed in suicide bombing outside Mogadishu school
November 25, 2021
An Islamist suicide bombing outside a school in Somalia’s capital killed eight people and wounded at least 23 including 13 children, the latest in a string of deadly blasts this ...
- British army to get extra £8bn of kit as part of radical shake-up
November 25, 2021
The defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has announced a radical reorganisation of the British army, with an additional £8.6bn to be spent on equipment and a new ranger regiment created to ...
- Minneapolis Bomb Squad called out Friday in Willmar after arrest of Lake Lillian man
November 24, 2021
The Minneapolis Police Department Bomb Squad was called out to secure two suspected explosive devices Friday after local police found them during an investigation into a physical domestic incident in ...
- UK: Man obsessed with coronavirus jailed for sending hoax bomb to vaccine factory in Wrexham
November 24, 2021
A man with an “obsessive” COVID-19 interest has been jailed after sparking a bomb scare at a vaccine factory. Anthony Collins, from Kent, halted manufacturing of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at a ...
- Cambodia: From 1979 to 2021 mine casualties in Battambang top 15,000
November 24, 2021
Over the 42-year period from 1979 to 2021, there were 15,289 people in Battambang province who were killed, disabled or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), according to Battambang ...
- Afghanistan: Blast rocks Kabul injuring two people
November 23, 2021
A blast has rocked Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, Aamaj News reports citing a police representative. According to him, the incident took place near Kandahar market in an area of Kabul. ...
- Armenian demining experts demine 2,000,000 square meters of territory in Damascus along with UNMAS
November 23, 2021
Within the scope of the agreement that Armenia and the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) signed on October 25, 2021, on November 21, a demining group of the Humanitarian ...
- DASA UK: Introducing the Access to Mentoring & Finance Team (A2MF)
November 23, 2021
DASA is not only focused on finding and funding innovation, we also help innovators increase the pull through of their ideas towards commercialisation. If you need help to establish the business ...
- Uganda arrests four over suspected explosive device
November 23, 2021
Ugandan police, in a security crackdown following deadly suicide bombings, said Tuesday they had arrested four Somalis for bringing a suspected explosive device into a resort due to host President ...
- Ohio: Toledo Man Sentenced for Illegal Possession of Firearms and Improvised Explosive Device
November 23, 2021
U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Jeffrey Davenport, 52, of Toledo, was sentenced on Monday, November 22, by Judge Jack Zouhary to 54 months in prison after Davenport pleaded ...
- In the dark: Nigeria’s Maiduguri struggles to recover without power
November 23, 2021
A whirring machine churns out prints at the Gaza Printing Press in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri while owner Garba Zango supervises. The copies are perfect, but his costs ...
- Israel’s Shin Bet Arrests 50 Members of Hamas Cell Planning Attacks
November 22, 2021
Israeli security forces arrested dozens of members of a Hamas cell that was in the advanced stages of planning major terror attacks in the West Bank and Israel, the Shin ...
- Irish bomb disposal experts travel to Qatar to help preparations for the 2022 World Cup
November 22, 2021
Irish bomb disposal experts have travelled to Qatar to help local forces prepare for security operations at the 2022 World Cup. Three operators from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team went to ...
- Killer Drones
November 22, 2021
Commercially available quadcopter drones carrying small amounts of explosives are “the most concerning tactical development since the rise of the improvised explosive device in Iraq,” US Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie ...
- U.S. to donate 30 more mine detection dogs to Azerbaijan
November 22, 2021
The U.S. Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI) will donate 30 more mine detection dogs (MDDs) to Azerbaijan, the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan has reported on its social media accounts. “To date, MLI ...
- Somalia: Al-Shabab suicide bomber kills prominent journalist in Mogadishu
November 20, 2021
A prominent Somali journalist who was a critic of the al-Shabab armed group was killed by a suicide bomber as he was leaving a restaurant in the capital, Mogadishu, relatives ...
- Azerbaijan: ANAMA employee and State Border Service Warrant Officer injured in mine explosion in Zangilan
November 20, 2021
An employee of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) and a warrant officer of the State Border Service (SBS) were injured as a result of mine explosion in ...
- India: Grenade In Tiffin Box Recovered In Firozpur
November 20, 2021
As bomb scares continue to agonise the general public in Firozpur, a second bomb rigged in a tiffin box has been identified on Saturday. Reportedly, a grenade packed in a ...
- Jaw bombs, the deadliest threat to Sri Lanka’s elephants, are scaling up
November 19, 2021
Elephant calves arriving at dusk to drink at the Weheragala reservoir tank in Wasgamuwa National Park can be particularly playful. But one day in September 2020, a lonely young elephant ...
- Somalia: Seven Killed in Market Blast in Bay Region
November 19, 2021
At least seven people were killed and 11 injured in southwestern Somalia on Friday in a bomb blast that targeted a crowded market, according to municipal officials. The blast occurred in ...
- UK: Liverpool attacker had been buying bomb parts ‘at least since April’
November 18, 2021
The Liverpool bomber had been buying bomb components since at least April, police have revealed. Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said that Iraq-born Emad Al Swealmeen had rented a property in ...
- Clearing Afghanistan’s landmines one careful step a time
November 18, 2021
Weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, families who fled the fighting in one southern village returned home to find something strange: the cricket ground had been circled in rocks ...
- Bomb Disposal Robots PIAP IBIS® Delivered to the Polish Police
November 17, 2021
Press Release In late October, Łukasiewicz – PIAP has finalized the delivery of five large bomb disposal robots to the Polish Police (SPKP – Independent Counter-terrorism Police Subdivision). The new heavy-duty ...
- Taiwan: Suspected letter bomb detonates at post office in Taoyuan
November 17, 2021
A letter bomb exploded at a Xinwu District post office in Taoyuan at 7:56 a.m. on Wednesday (Nov. 17), setting the docking area ablaze and filling the air with smoke. Postal ...
- 20th CBRNE Command Soldiers hone combat skills with 4th Infantry Division at NTC
November 16, 2021
FORT IRWIN, California – Soldiers from the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command trained with troops from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, at the ...
- South Korea: New lab launched to apply AI tech for demining operations
November 16, 2021
South Korea opened a research laboratory Tuesday to develop a demining solution utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance accuracy of the military’s mine clearance operations, the defense ministry said. The ministries ...
- Uganda: 2 explosions rock Kampala City
November 16, 2021
Shock and horror have gripped people in Kampala after 2 explosions rocked the city centre. In surprise incidents, an explosion went off on Parliamentary avenue just next to the Jubilee Insurance ...
- 30 Years of Impact – An Evaluation of the Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan
November 15, 2021
Due to successive waves of instability and conflict from the 1980s onwards, Afghanistan was heavily contaminated by explosive ordnance (EO). Established to improve this situation, the Mine Action Programme of ...
