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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Arizona: Juvenile faces adult felony charges for planning an attack on the Phoenix Pride Festival
October 23, 2024
(Phoenix, AZ) – The Investigations Unit of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, working alongside officers of the FBI Phoenix Field Office, and the Buckeye and Glendale Police Departments, has arrested ...
- Afghanistan: Bomb attack in Kabul market kills child, injures 11 others
October 23, 2024
An attacker carrying a bomb in a bag killed a child and wounded 11 others in a market in Afghanistan’s capital, police said on Thursday. The attack took place in a ...
- Nigeria: Troops Kill Four Terrorists, Rescue 14 In South East
October 23, 2024
Operatives of the 82 Division Nigerian Army and the Joint Task Force South-East, code-named ‘Operation UDO KA’, have smashed camps of alleged Indigenous People of Biafra and its Eastern Security ...
- Turkish aerospace facility targeted in terror attack in Ankara
October 23, 2024
“A terrorist attack was carried out against the Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TAI) Ankara Kahramankazan facilities,” Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said in a statement. “Unfortunately, we have martyrs and wounded people ...
- Netherlands: Police probe blast outside law firm offices in The Hague
October 23, 2024
Police are investigating an explosion outside a building housing several law firms in The Hague. No one was injured in the blast but there was some damage to the building. The ...
- UK: Unexploded WW2 bomb detonated on beach
October 23, 2024
An unexploded World War Two bomb found in a Merseyside town has been taken to a nearby beach and detonated. Footage of the explosion, captured by the news site Eye On ...
- Ukraine: ZNPP employee suspected of assassination attempt on IAEA officials
October 23, 2024
Sergey Potynga, an engineer at the thermal instrumentation and control shop of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), has been accused of attempting to assassinate employees of the International Atomic ...
- Mexico: 3 police injured after car bombs explode outside 2 Guanajuato police buildings
October 23, 2024
Two car bombs were almost simultaneously detonated near Public Security Ministry (SSP) buildings in two Guanajuato state municipalities on Thursday morning, injuring three police officers, one seriously. Both bombings occurred almost ...
- Colombia: Explosion in Cauca after the opening of COP16
October 22, 2024
Colombian guerrillas detonated explosives on Monday as a military vehicle passed by in El Bordo, Cauca, a region where three civilians were also killed, authorities said Tuesday. And although the site ...
- India: 6-yr-old boy injured in crude bomb blast in Malda
October 22, 2024
A crude bomb explosion in the Dogpukur area of Ward 23 in English Bazar Municipality area left a six-year-old boy injured on Tuesday afternoon. The child, identified as Banti Kumar Mahato, ...
- Japan searches for buried WWII bombs at airports after one explodes near plane
October 22, 2024
A long-buried World War Two bomb exploded in early October at Japan’s Miyazaki Airport. Nearly 80 years after the war ended, bombs that didn’t detonate still turn up nationwide. Two more ...
- India: Major Counter-Terror Raids in Kashmir Disrupt Militant Recruitment
October 22, 2024
In a major operation, the Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) unit raided six districts to dismantle a terrorist recruitment module tied to a group linked with Lashkar-e-Taiba. The move follows attacks which have ...
- Estonian deminers find over 700 explosives in Latvia
October 22, 2024
Estonian bomb disposal experts found 728 explosive devices during a two-week international training exercise in Latvia. The eight-member team searched an area of around 9,000 square meters in Cekule, close ...
- Somalia strives to deepen security ties with Uganda, Burundi
October 21, 2024
Somalia’s president wrapped up official visits to Uganda and Burundi as part of efforts to deepen security ties with the two nations, which have been among the main contributors of ...
- Florida: Controlled demolition of WWII-era bombs in Choctawhatchee Bay set for later this week
October 21, 2024
Eglin Air Force Base officials are advising the public of a planned demolition in Choctawhatchee Bay later this week. According to a release, divers from the Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile ...
- Kenya: Two university students innovate robot IED detector to help in war on terrorism
October 21, 2024
Two Technical University of Mombasa students have innovated a bomb detector robot that can be used in insecurity prone areas like Lamu. The innovation is such that the robot car, which ...
- Biosafety: Laboratory Planning and Preparedness to Mitigate Risk
October 21, 2024
Biosafety is focused on reducing the risk of people, animals, and the environment being accidentally exposed to dangerous biological materials such as viruses and bacteria. More formally, biosafety is a ...
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