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- Northern Iraq: Khor Mor gas field attacked
January 25, 2024
Khor Mor gas field in Sulaimani province was attacked late on Thursday, a local official told Rudaw. No casualties have been reported. Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) plants of Khor Mor, is ...
- Cyprus: Homemade bomb explodes at house in Limassol
January 25, 2024
A homemade explosive device detonated at around 3:15am in the Ayia Phyla neighbourhood of Limassol. The explosion occurred at the entrance of a house owned by a 67-year-old woman and ...
- Royal Solomon Islands Police Force EOD officers on UXO training
January 25, 2024
Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Unit are undergoing a two-week training facilitated by Japan’s Ammunition College, Self-Defence Force and the Ministry of Defence. The ...
- Winter 2023/24 edition of the Counter-IED Report magazine is now available to read online and in print
January 25, 2024
We are pleased to inform you that Winter 2023/24 edition of the Counter-IED Report magazine is now available to read online and in print. Articles, in-depth analysis and insights from C-IED ...
- US Navy intercepts missiles in Red Sea while escorting Maersk ships
January 25, 2024
The Maersk shipping company said explosions forced two ships operated by its US subsidiary and carrying US military supplies to turn around when they were transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait ...
- Japan: Kyoto Animation arsonist given death penalty over 2019 mass murder
January 25, 2024
Shinji Aoba was handed the death penalty on Thursday for setting a Kyoto Animation studio on fire in 2019 and killing 36 people, in one of Japan’s deadliest mass murders. The ...
- Jammu And Kashmir: Security Forces Destroy Explosives In Pulwama
January 25, 2024
Security forces detected and destroyed an improvised explosive device (IED) in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, officials said. The IED was found on the roadside at Badibagh ...
- Nigeria: Thirty people killed in latest herder violence in Plateau State
January 25, 2024
At least 30 people have been killed in renewed violence in Nigeria’s central Plateau State, where clashes between Muslim herders and Christian farming communities have erupted for years, a community ...
- Colorado Springs: Man arrested in connection to explosion on January 12
January 24, 2024
A man was arrested tied to an explosion investigation near downtown Colorado Springs Tuesday. According to police, Edward Kiley was taken into custody without incident after police obtained a warrant ...
- Uganda: Police recover explosive device in Entebbe
January 24, 2024
The Uganda Police’s Counter Terrorism officers in Kampala Metropolitan on Tuesday recovered a suspected explosive device near Rolex Beach within the Botanical Gardens in Entebbe, in Wakiso District. ASP Luke Owoyesigyire, ...
- Somalia: Heavy fighting as security forces battle al-Shabab attack
January 24, 2024
Heavy fighting is underway in central Somalia after al-Shabab militants attacked military bases in Mudug region. Eyewitnesses have told the BBC they heard heavy gunfire and explosions at dawn on Wednesday. ...
- Cambodia: UN-ESCAP help sought to expand Ottawa signatories
January 24, 2024
Ly Thuch, the First Vice- President of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), has requested UN-ESCAP to assist in encouraging Asia-Pacific nations that have not yet ratified ...
- South Africa: Man arrested for starting deadly Johannesburg fire
January 24, 2024
South African police said Wednesday that they had arrested a man accused of starting a fire that killed more than 70 in Johannesburg last year. The 29-year-old was detained on Tuesday ...
- 144th FW EOD trains with NAS Lemoore
January 23, 2024
Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians from the 144th Fighter Wing participated in a joint training exercise at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, Dec. 12, 2023, where they had to identify and ...
- New Mexico: Police investigate suspicious devices in Deming and Las Cruces
January 23, 2024
Police are investigating after several suspicious devices have been found in different parts of the state. The Albuquerque FBI division is leading the investigations as of Tuesday, Jan. 23. Devices have ...
- Ontario: Police awaiting test results in Barrie bomb probe
January 23, 2024
Barrie police continue to say there are no new details to be released and no arrests have been made in connection to an ongoing bomb investigation, which began several months ...
- Cyprus: Car fire caused by explosives
January 23, 2024
A car fire early on Tuesday morning in Limassol was caused by a low power improvised explosive device police confirmed, a while the vehicle’s owner has not suggested any suspected ...
- UK: Army carries out controlled explosion of shell found near Felixstowe
January 23, 2024
An unexploded shell has been detonated by army personnel at a Suffolk village car park. A police cordon was in place at the recreation ground in Alderton, near Felixstowe, to ...
- U.S. Central Command Forces Destroy Two Houthi Terrorists’ Anti-Ship Missiles
January 23, 2024
TAMPA, Fla. – On Jan. 24 at approximately 2:30 a.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces conducted strikes against two Houthi anti-ship missiles that were aimed into the Southern Red ...
- Mexico demands investigation into US military-grade weapons being used by drug cartels
January 23, 2024
Mexico wants an urgent investigation into how U.S. military-grade weapons are increasingly being found in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, Mexico’s top diplomat said Monday. Mexico’s army is finding belt-fed ...
- India: Security forces detonate IEDs planted by Kuki militants
January 23, 2024
Security forces safely removed and later detonated two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), which were found planted by suspected Kuki militants near the gate of New Moreh under Moreh Police Station ...
- Syria: Several explosive devices dismantled in Daraa countryside
January 23, 2024
Units of Syrian Arab Army in Daraa countryside dismantled several explosive devices on the side of the road in the towns of Busra al-Harir in the northeastern countryside of the ...
- Ukrainian emergency workers dispose of unexploded warhead of Russian missile in Kyiv
January 23, 2024
The bomb disposal teams of the Mobile Rescue Centre of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) are dealing with the aftermath of a Russian attack in Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district. The emergency workers ...
- U.S. Forces Strike Kataib Hezbollah Capabilities in Iraq
January 23, 2024
TAMPA, Fla. – In response to attacks by the Iranian-backed militia group Kataib Hezbollah (KH), including the attack on al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq on Jan. 20, on Jan. 24 ...
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