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- Arizona: Robot dogs being used to help first responders during suspicious calls
July 17, 2024
The Arizona Department of Public Safety is out patrolling the roads every day. Still, DPS has a lot of different departments, like its bomb squad which responds to threats with ...
- Vietnam: British organisation supports Quang Binh in UXO clearance
July 17, 2024
The central province of Quang Binh, one of the localities most affected by unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over from the war, has benefited from UXO risk education, survey and clearance ...
- Pennsylvania: Remote detonator found next to Thomas Crooks’ cellphone at the scene of Butler rally shooting
July 17, 2024
A remote detonator was found on would-be assassin Thomas Crooks’ body alongside his cell phone after he was shot dead by Secret Service snipers at a Donald Trump rally in ...
- Defeat ISIS Mission in Iraq and Syria for January – June 2024
July 16, 2024
TAMPA, Fla. – From January to June 2024, ISIS has claimed 153 attacks in Iraq and Syria. At this rate, ISIS is on pace to more than double the total ...
- Oman: At least six killed in mosque attack in Muscat
July 16, 2024
At least six people have been killed and 28 others wounded in a shooting at a mosque in Oman in a rare act of violence in the Gulf nation. The attack ...
- Yemen’s Houthis target 3 ships in Red, Mediterranean Seas
July 16, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi group announced Monday that it attacked three ships in the Red and Mediterranean Seas for breaching its embargo on vessels entering Israeli ports. In a statement, Houthi military spokesman ...
- Pakistan: Casualties reported after two separate terrorist attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
July 16, 2024
Two soldiers and five civilians were martyred in a terrorist attack on a rural health centre in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district, the military’s media wing said on Tuesday. In ...
- NCITE Publishes New Research on Combating Terrorist Use of Explosives
July 15, 2024
The terrorist threat in the U.S. has many faces: anti-government extremists, violent white supremacists, homegrown jihadists, and a long list of others. To respond, national security researchers and practitioners need ...
- Bangladesh: Six crude bombs explode at Dhaka University
July 15, 2024
At least six crude bombs exploded near Shahidullah Hall at Dhaka University on Monday evening. The clashes spread from in front of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) to Doyel Chattar ...
- Syria: Three SAA soldiers killed in IED explosion in Raqqa
July 15, 2024
A Syrian regime military vehicle was hit on Sunday when an Islamic State (ISIS) improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in the northern city of Raqqa, killing three Syrian soldiers, a ...
- Somalia: At least nine dead in car bomb explosion outside busy cafe in Mogadishu
July 15, 2024
A car bomb has exploded outside a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, killing at least nine and injuring several others as patrons were watching the final of the Euro 2024 ...
- Belgium: Police intercept vehicle after reports of explosion in Antwerp
July 14, 2024
Police in Antwerp intercepted a vehicle on Saturday evening following several reports of an explosion; no injuries were reported. “Numerous reports of an explosion were received just before 20:00,” said a ...
- Pakistan: Frontier Corps soldier killed in Quetta IED explosion
July 14, 2024
A soldier was martyred and another injured when an improvised explosive device went off near a vehicle carrying a contingent of the Frontier Corps (FC) in the city’s Akhtarabad area ...
- Pennsylvania: Explosive devices reportedly found in Trump shooter car after failed assassination attempt at rally
July 14, 2024
Explosive devices were found inside the car of the gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump during his Saturday rally in Pennsylvania, according to a report. The car, driven ...
- Republic of Georgia: Interior Ministry holds exercise on responding to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear incidents
July 13, 2024
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia on Thursday said it had conducted a “large-scale” interagency exercise focused on responding to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents. The three-day exercise, led ...
- Turkish soldier killed by IED in northern Iraq
July 13, 2024
A Turkish soldier was killed in an anti-terrorist operation in northern Iraq, near the Turkish border, said the Turkish National Defense Ministry on Friday. Sgt. Bahadir Ridvan Talay was killed by ...
- India: Army trains Maharashtra police batch to counter bomb and Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDs) threat
July 13, 2024
The combat engineering department of the College of Military Engineering (CME) of the Army has conducted a special training session for a batch of Maharashtra Intelligence Academy (MIA) on vital ...
- UK: Award for police who arrested gunman after explosion
July 12, 2024
Five police officers who confronted a gunman who was armed with two explosive bags have been honoured at the National Police Bravery Awards. Damian Mazurkiewicz, 54, set off one device which ...
- Yemen’s Houthis claim they have attacked 166 ships since November
July 12, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi group said Thursday that it has targeted 166 ships associated with Israel, the US and the UK since last November. In a televised speech, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said ...
- Fort Drum Chemical Company team earns first place at Best CBRN Warrior Competition
July 12, 2024
FORT DRUM, N.Y. – A team from the Fort Drum, New York-based 59th Chemical Company “Mountain Dragons” took first place out of 30 joint and international teams during the Best ...
- Ontario: Second suspect arrested in Barrie car bombing
July 12, 2024
Police have arrested a second suspect in connection with a car bombing in Barrie’s west end last fall. Police say information “came to light during an unrelated investigation” on Tuesday, ...
- Belgian government to allocate EUR 1M for mine action project in Ukraine
July 12, 2024
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine has signed a financing agreement worth EUR 1 million with the Government of Belgium for the implementation of the UNDP’s Mine Action ...
- Kenya: Four police officers killed, five missing in suspected Al-Shabaab attack in Mandera
July 12, 2024
Four police officers under the Special Operations Group (SOG) have been killed in a suspected Al-Shabaab attack at the border of Banisa and Mandera West sub-counties in Mandera County. According to ...
- Scanna Expands Portfolio with Acquisition of VisiConsult’s VCsecurity Business
July 11, 2024
Press Release July 11, 2024 – London, UK – Scanna, a global leader in portable security X-ray systems, is pleased to announce the acquisition of VisiConsult’s VCsecurity business, reinforcing Scanna’s ...
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