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- Norway Provides Ukrainian Navy With $240M for Minehunting and Autonomy
December 16, 2024
On Monday, the Norwegian government announced a new grant of about $240 million to support Ukraine’s navy in its fight against Russian forces in the Black Sea. The grant includes financing ...
- DoJ: Founder of Iranian Company Arrested for Providing Material Support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
December 16, 2024
Founder of Iranian Company and his Co-Defendant, an Employee of a U.S. Microelectronics Manufacturer, Also Charged with Violating Export Control Laws in Conspiracy to Procure Sensitive U.S. Technology for Use ...
- Mali Army says captured Islamic State group figure
December 16, 2024
In a statement, the Malian army said that units in Tagadeyate in the eastern Menaka region had on Sunday “captured Ahmad Ag Ditta, a top leader of the EIGS”, referring ...
- Nigeria: Terrorist-bandits gaining improvised explosive expertise
December 16, 2024
A disturbing development that challenges Nigerian military claims of having the upper hand against terrorists has surfaced. Fulani terrorists in Zamfara State now deploy Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), marking a ...
- Somalia: Explosions target homes with CCTV, injure five In Mogadishu
December 16, 2024
At least five people, including children, were injured in a series of landmine explosions in Galmudug village, Garasbaley district, over the past two nights as the number of the people ...
- Japan: Unexploded WWII Bomb Detonated by SDF in Nagoya
December 16, 2024
An unexploded American bomb weighing around 250 kilograms was detonated and removed from a building demolition site in central Nagoya on Sunday morning. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) began removing the ...
- UK: Four homemade bombs found in Portsmouth
December 16, 2024
Police and an Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit attended a vacant house in Spinnaker Drive, Hilsea, on Tuesday of last week around 11am to deal with the potential life ...
- Israel strikes weapon and missile depots in Syria
December 16, 2024
Israel has reportedly carried out multiple strikes on missile and weapon depots in the Syrian port city of Tartus, located near the Lebanon-Syria border, Arab media outlets reported on Sunday ...
- India: Villager killed in IED explosion in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada
December 16, 2024
A 35-year-old man was killed after a pressure improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites went off in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Monday, a police official said. The incident took ...
- UK: Anti-aircraft artillery round found in Norwich river
December 16, 2024
Police have confirmed the device pulled from a city river over the weekend was an explosive. People were warned to avoid the Bishop Bridge area of Norwich on Sunday after ...
- Netherlands: Police arrest two Rotterdam men in Alblasserdam bomb plot attempts
December 15, 2024
Two Rotterdam men, ages 18 and 20, have been arrested for their suspected involvement in two attempts to detonate an explosive device near a home in Alblasserdam earlier this month, ...
- Ireland: Ammunition and fireworks seized by Gardaí and Defence Forces in Limerick
December 15, 2024
Gardai recovered ammunition as part of planned searches conducted in parts of Limerick. The ammunition, the quantity of which was not disclosed, was recovered during this past Saturday (December 14). Gardaí ...
- Afghanistan: Unexploded Ordnance Claims 137 Lives in 2024
December 15, 2024
The Directorate of Mine Action Coordination says that since the beginning of 2024, 137 people have been killed and 330 others injured as a result of unexploded ordnance detonations. Nooruddin Rustamkhil, ...
- Nigeria: Operatives uncover use of wall clocks as timers by terrorists
December 15, 2024
In order to conceal their operations, indications have emerged that some terrorists may have resorted to the use of wall clocks as timers to detonate Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), at ...
- Syria: Expert warns of ‘massive’ risk from unexploded ordnance
December 15, 2024
The extent of unexploded ordnance littering Syria will be “massive” and poses a particular threat to children returning to the country, a landmine-clearing leader has warned. Since the fall of the ...
- US-British airstrike targets Yemen’s Al-Tuhayta in Hodeida
December 15, 2024
Yemeni media report that a joint American-British airstrike has hit the Al-Tuhayta district in southern Hodeida governorate, located along the Red Sea in western Yemen. The latest airstrike on Yemen’s Al-Tuhayta ...
- Russian authorities detain man in connection with car blast that killed Russian officer in Donetsk
December 15, 2024
A man has been apprehended in Donetsk on suspicion of planting a bomb under a Russian officer’s car, while working for Ukrainian intelligence, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said. The ...
- Wyoming: Upton man charged with planting homemade bomb at oil field company
December 14, 2024
A 39-year-old Upton man has been arrested and accused of planting a homemade propane bomb in the tool shed of a Wyoming oil field company near Upton in northeast Wyoming. David ...
- Thai police detain two suspects after bomb explosion killed three and injured dozens in Tak province
December 14, 2024
Thai police on Saturday said two suspects were in custody as authorities investigated a bombing in the north that killed at least three people and injured dozens of others. An explosive ...
- India: One killed, six arrested in counter-insurgency operation in Manipur
December 14, 2024
The Manipur Police gunned down an armed individual and nabbed six others during an alleged counter-insurgency operation in Thoubal district on Saturday. The incident occurred around 9:45 am at Salungpham Maning ...
- Ukraine: Explosion in Central Dnipro, one dead, police officers injured
December 14, 2024
Dnipro Oblast Police reported that one person was killed and several others injured in the explosion, including two police officers who were hospitalized. The explosion occurred on Dec. 14 at approximately ...
- Sudan: 42 killed in landmine explosion, paramilitary attacks in Sinnar and Gezira States
December 13, 2024
In central Sudan, at least 42 civilians were killed in a landmine explosion in Sinnar State on Friday and two attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Gezira ...
- Declassified satellite photos reveal impacts of Vietnam War
December 13, 2024
During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped more than 8 million tons of bombs and sprayed 74 million liters of Agent Orange and other herbicides in Vietnam, Cambodia, and ...
- UN Security Council renews sanctions against Al-Shabaab terror group
December 13, 2024
The UN Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution renewing the sanctions against al-Shabaab terror group in Somalia until Feb. 28, 2025. The resolution, submitted by the UK, was unanimously adopted ...
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