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- Somalia: Explosion in Mogadishu kills three, injures others
October 26, 2024
A landmine explosion in Mogadishu’s Karaan district killed three civilians and wounded multiple others on Saturday, local sources told Garowe Online. The IED blast occurred in the El Ali Gedi area, ...
- Texas: Tatum man accused of making homemade explosive devices
October 26, 2024
A Tatum man was arrested on charges that he was creating homemade explosive devices and was in possession of methamphetamine and marijuana. According to Rusk County Sheriff Johnwayne Valdez, the sheriff’s ...
- Israel: One dead, over 30 wounded in Glilot truck ramming
October 26, 2024
Some 33 people were wounded to various degrees, with one succumbing to his wounds after a truck rammed into a bus stop near Glilot in central Israel on Sunday, Israeli ...
- Pakistan: 8 killed, 5 wounded in suicide bombing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
October 26, 2024
A suicide bomber detonated at a checkpoint in western Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding five more, officials said. The bomber set off the blast from the back of ...
- UK: Controlled detonation carried out on Guernsey’s south coast
October 26, 2024
Part of a roll bomb found on Guernsey’s south coast was detonated on Saturday morning. The ordnance was discovered at the base of a cliff in Saint’s Bay by a ...
- Israeli Air Force strikes military installations, air defense systems and missile manufacturing facilities in Iran
October 26, 2024
About 900 miles from Israel, in the early hours of Saturday, precisely 25 days after Iran’s ballistic missile attack, reports of explosions in Iran began to emerge at 2:00 AM, ...
- India: Security Forces recover huge cache of arms and explosives in Manipur
October 26, 2024
The security forces working in trouble torn Manipur have come up with huge success as they recovered a substantial cache of arms and explosives from the Bishnupur and Imphal West ...
- Israel: 3 IDF personnel killed in explosion in northern Gaza
October 26, 2024
Capt. Barak Israel Sagan was killed in action on Friday, October 25, 2024, while fighting in northern Gaza. Sagan, 22, from Petah Tikva, served as a platoon commander in the ...
- Iran: 10 border guards killed in terrorist attack in Sistan-Baluchestan province
October 26, 2024
In a tragic incident on Saturday, 10 police officers and soldiers were martyred during an armed clash with assailants in Taftan County in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan. The confrontation ...
- 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 ...
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