- The Afghanistan Freedom Movement Group Claims Responsibility for Today’s Explosion of Mazar-e-Sharif
May 20, 2022
Tahreek-e-Azadi Afghanistan (Afghanistan Freedom Movement) claimed responsibility for an attack on the 209th AlFath Taliban Corps convoy in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province. An explosion occurred this morning, Thursday, May 19, in Mazar-e-Sharif ...
- Joint service EOD techs join forces to destroy 12,000-pound missile cache
May 19, 2022
NEVADA TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Nev. – U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians teamed up to destroy a 12,000-pound missile cache. EOD Soldiers from ...
- Special operators need counter-drone, counter-IED tech in a smaller package
May 18, 2022
U.S. special operations forces need a tool that can both jam radio frequencies to stop roadside bombs from exploding as well as neutralize drone threats by land, air and sea ...
- Hawaii: FBI seeks tips after improvised explosive device found on Oahu
May 18, 2022
The FBI is asking for tips about an improvised explosive device that was discovered on Oahu last month. The agency released a photo of the device Tuesday. They say the device was ...
- Pakistan: Two Suspects Involved In Lahore’s Anarkali Bomb Blast Arrested by CTD
May 18, 2022
The Punjab’s Counterterrorism Department (CTD) Tuesday claimed to have arrested two terrorists involved in the New Anarkali bomb blast. Three people had died and 33 others were injured in the blast ...
- India: Bomb placed near bridge 10 km away from Imphal defused
May 18, 2022
The bridge at Khonghampat is also not far off from the Army camp at the old Koirengei airfield and the Central Reserve Police Force headquarters. A plan of some insurgents to ...
- Pakistan: Karachi Saddar Bomb Blast Main Suspect and Accomplice Killed In Encounter
May 18, 2022
Main accused involved in Karachi Saddar bomb blast along with his accomplice has been killed in encounter with intelligence agencies and Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel in Karachi in the ...
- Jammu and Kashmir: ‘Terror group’ releases video to claim ‘IED blast’ caused Katra bus fire
May 18, 2022
An unknown terror group ‘Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Fighters’ has released a video claiming responsibility for Katra bus fire which killed 4 Vaishno Devi pilgrims, saying it was triggered by ...
- Yemen: Houthi mines have killed 372 people since mid-2019
May 17, 2022
Tens of thousands of land mines planted by the Iran-backed Houthis across Yemen have killed 372 people and wounded 754 more since mid-2019, the Yemeni Landmine Monitor said. The latest victim ...
- UK: Resident finds ‘bomb’ in Knaresborough river and takes it home leading to dramatic scenes
May 17, 2022
A warning has been issued after a person found a suspected unexploded bomb in the river at Knaresborough and took it home. After taking it back and contacting police yesterday afternoon ...
- Nigeria: Police successfully defused IED planted by Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgents in Borno IDP camp
May 16, 2022
The police in Borno State have successfully defused a bomb planted by Boko Haram and ISWAP insurgents at Dalori Internally Displaced Persons Camp (IDPs) in Konduga Local Government Area. Dalori camp ...
- Cambodia: Pailin tractor driver detonates anti-tank mine, suffers injuries
May 16, 2022
A man was injured and rushed to hospital after his tractor detonated an anti-tank mine on May 15 in Sala Krao commune’s Stung Koy village of Pailin province’s Sala Krao ...
- Pakistan: Death toll climbs to six in KP’s Mirali suicide blast
May 16, 2022
Three security personnel and as many children have been martyred in the Saturday’s suicide blast in Mirali tehsil of the North Waziristan tribal district, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said ...
- USAID to continue helping Việt Nam with post-war dioxin decontamination, mine clearance
May 15, 2022
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính had a meeting with Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Samantha Power in Washington DC on May 13 (US time), as ...
- Yemen: Army commander survives car bomb in Aden
May 15, 2022
A car bomb targeted a Yemeni army commander in the southern port city of Aden, the country’s interim capital, triggering a large explosion that rocked the city, according to a ...
- India: 17-Year-Old Dies After Container Bomb Explodes In Garbage Dump, West Bengal
May 14, 2022
A 17-year-old boy was killed on Saturday when a container bomb exploded in a garbage dump in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, police told news agency PTI. The incident ...
- Flood of weapons to Ukraine raises fear of arms smuggling
May 14, 2022
President Biden is expected to sign in the coming days a $40 billion security-assistance package that will supercharge the flow of missiles, rockets, artillery and drones to a war-torn Ukraine. But ...
- India: NCPCR summons West Bengal ADG over bomb blast that injured 4 kids
May 14, 2022
Apex child rights body NCPCR has summoned West Bengal ADG K Jayaraman to furnish the action taken report in the case of four children sustaining injuries in a crude bomb ...
- New Brunswick: Bombs, bomb-making material, guns seized in raid of Moncton home
May 13, 2022
RCMP seized homemade pipe bombs, bomb-making equipment, weapons and ammunition during a noon-hour raid on a home in Moncton on Thursday. Police say an investigation has been underway for some time ...
- France: PKK sympathizers attack Turkiye’s Consulate General in Paris
May 13, 2022
ympathizers of the PKK terrorist organization attacked Turkiye’s Consulate General in Paris on Thursday, according to diplomatic sources. Unidentified individuals attacked the Consulate General around 02.30 a.m. local time (1230 GMT) ...
- Cambodia: Prey Veng declared second mine-free province
May 13, 2022
Prey Veng is now the second province to be declared landmine free – after Kep – though some undiscovered munitions and cluster bombs as well as other unexploded ordnance (UXO) ...
- Ukraine war has the Marine Corps revamping IED training
May 13, 2022
Marines may be learning whole new ways to fight in a new kind of littoral battlespace, against different adversaries such as the Chinese military, but an old foe still lurks ...
- DHS Announces $1.6 Billion in Preparedness Grants
May 13, 2022
WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas today announced $1.6 billion for eight Fiscal Year 2022 preparedness grant programs. Together, these programs provide critical funding to help state and ...
- Pakistan: 1 passerby killed, at least 9 injured in IED blast in Karachi’s Saddar
May 12, 2022
One passerby was killed and at least nine injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted in a motorbike went off in a busy area of Saddar late Thursday night, ...
- India: Two IEDs planted by Maoists destroyed by police in Chhattisgarh
May 12, 2022
Security forces have destroyed two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by the Maoists in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh on Thursday averting a threat to the lives of police forces. According to police, ...
- Nepal: Pressure cooker bomb explodes in Butwal
May 12, 2022
A bomb has exploded at Milanchowk in Butwal on the eve of local elections. The bomb exploded at around 8:30 PM on Wednesday. According to the Area Police Office, Butwal, a ...
- Texas: San Antonio man found with pipe bomb filled with ball bearing, metal arrowheads
May 12, 2022
A man who was found asleep in his car in a Northeast Side neighborhood had a pipe bomb filled with a ball bearing and metal arrowheads, according to San Antonio ...
- Russia: Gunpowder blast at military unit in Far East kills one, injures several others
May 12, 2022
A gunpowder explosion took place in a military installation in the Teysin settlement in the Amursky district of the Khabarovsk Region, one serviceman died, seven people were injured, a source ...
- Cambodia: Experts remove 640 UXO from Mekong River in Prey Veng province
May 12, 2022
Experts of Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) have found about 2,000 shells and 640 unexploded ordnances (UXO) weighing about 8 tonnes on the river basin of Mekong. In the ongoing operation ...
- Ohio: OUPD’s newest K9 team graduates from Explosive Detection Canine school
May 12, 2022
Ohio University Police Department’s (OUPD) newest K9 team graduated from Explosive Detection Canine (EDC) school last Friday, May 6. The team of OUPD officer Brandon King and his canine partner, ...
- Mine clearance in Ukraine may take 5-10 years
May 11, 2022
“Based on international experience, mine clearance may take from 5 to 10 years,” Oleh Bondar, Head of the Pyrotechnic Works and Humanitarian Demining Department of the State Emergency Service of ...
- Somalia: 4 killed in Mogadishu suicide blast ahead of presidential vote
May 11, 2022
Somali police say at least four people have been killed by a suicide explosion that targeted a checkpoint near the airport in the capital, Mogadishu. “I saw four people dead at ...
- UK: Army disposal team called to Bury St Edmunds as suspected bombs dug up on Suffolk construction site
May 11, 2022
Army bomb disposal experts were called in after suspected mortar bombs were dug up at a construction site in Suffolk. An exclusion area was put in place following the discovery at ...
- DASA UK: Countering IEDs with novel electronic technologies
May 11, 2022
DASA is searching for Counter-IED technologies that use novel Radio Frequency (RF) techniques DASA has launched a new Innovation Focus Area (IFA) called Countering IEDs by Novel Technology and Techniques. Seeking novel ...
