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- Out of Control: The Trafficking of Improvised Explosive Device Components and Commercial Explosives in West Africa
November 24, 2023
The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in West Africa expanded dramatically over the last decade. IED-building networks have established material and training links across conflict areas in West and ...
- Liberia: National Security Institutions, Others Benefit from C-IED Training
November 24, 2023
The Liberia National Commission on Arms (LiNCA) has collaborated with the Small Arms Survey, an international organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, to provide state security institutions and key ministries of ...
- UK: Man sentenced for possessing an explosive substance – High Wycombe
November 23, 2023
Following an investigation by Thames Valley Police, a man has been sentenced for possessing an explosive substance in High Wycombe. At Aylesbury Crown Court yesterday (22/11), Jack Coleman, aged 19, of ...
- Ireland: 34 people arrested after riotous mob causes huge destruction
November 23, 2023
A clean-up is under way in Dublin city centre this morning following violent clashes between large groups of people and gardaí in Dublin last night. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said 34 ...
- US intercepts explosive-laden drones launched from Yemen
November 23, 2023
The Pentagon announced this morning that a US destroyer intercepted several explosive-laden drones launched from Yemen from areas controlled by the Houthis. The US Central Military Command, Centcom, said in a ...
- Jammu and Kashmir: Drone drops box containing 9 grenades, 1 pistol, IED in Akhnoor
November 23, 2023
The Jammu and Kashmir police in a joint operation with the Indian Army, on Thursday, recovered a box that was dropped by a drone in the area of Palanwallah village ...
- MINUSMA’s Nepalese Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company: Heroes Behind Safe Convoys In Mali
November 22, 2023
As MINUSMA inches closer to its withdrawal from Mali by 31st December 2023 in line with UN Security resolution 2690, it is important to acknowledge the significant contributions of the ...
- Pakistan: Two soldiers killed in Razmak IED explosion
November 22, 2023
Two soldiers of the Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded near a convoy of security forces in North Waziristan district, the military said in a ...
- Afghanistan tops global list for highest landmine-affected areas
November 22, 2023
The Danish Refugee Council recently announced that Afghanistan is recognized as one of the countries in the world with the highest landmine-affected areas. The pervasive presence of landmines in Afghanistan poses ...
- Philippines: IED components dug up amid sustained anti-insurgency ops
November 22, 2023
Police operatives have recovered components for an improvised explosive device (IED) in a remote mountain village in Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental as a result of sustained operations against the communist ...
- Polish police arrest woman with Islamic extremist sympathies who planted explosive device in Warsaw
November 21, 2023
Polish authorities say that they have arrested and pressed charges against a 38-year-old Polish woman with Islamic extremist sympathies who planted an explosive device on a street in central Warsaw ...
- Cambodia: CMAA aim to warn 1.4M people of mine danger
November 21, 2023
Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) officials expect to reach 1.4 million people in their efforts to educate members of the public in high-risk areas about the dangers ...
- Washington: 16-year-old boy tells therapist he made three homemade bombs, threatens to use them at Cheney Public Schools
November 20, 2023
A 16-year-old boy is in custody after creating three homemade bombs and threatening to use them at the WIN Academy in Cheney. The boy told an INBH therapist that one of ...
- 10th Mountain troops test CBRN skills with New York National Guard experts
November 20, 2023
COLONIE FIRE TRAINING CENTER, Latham, NY – Ten Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Divisions Dismounted Chemical Reconnaissance Team refined their skills alongside 16 Airmen and Soldiers from the New York ...
- UK: Thieves use ‘explosive device’ in attempt to steal money from cash machine in Sale
November 20, 2023
Bomb disposal experts scrambled to the scene of an attempted robbery in Sale after police believe suspects used an ‘explosive device’ to target a cash machine. The incident happened on Hereford ...
- Japan supplies mine clearance equipment to Ukraine
November 20, 2023
Units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have received mine clearance equipment from Japan, including special vehicles and mine detectors. The aid package includes 40 special vehicles, 50 hand-held mine ...
- Ireland: Residents evacuated as historical device removed from Dublin suburb
November 19, 2023
A discovery led to a number of premises being evacuated yesterday afternoon. Gardaí put a cordon in place after they were alerted to a suspicious device found in Clontarf, a coastal ...
- Vietnam: Wartime bomb safely disposed in Lao Cai province
November 19, 2023
The bomb was found lying at a depth of four metres on October 16 by a worker while he was operating an excavator at a construction site of Bao Ha ...
- Indiana: Responders’ training safely defuses potential hazards
November 19, 2023
A couple of stories in the news recently reminded us of the importance of specialized training for our first responders, who know that on on any given day they may ...
- Pakistan: Three die in Kech explosion
November 19, 2023
A roadside explosion killed three people in Balochistan’s Kech district on Sunday, Makran Division Commissioner Saeed Ahmed Umrani said. According to Umrani, unidentified terrorists targeted a vehicle through an improvised explosive ...
- Bangladesh: One hurt in crude bomb blast in Dhaka
November 19, 2023
A person was injured tonight in a crude bomb blast near Baitul Mukarram area of the capital’s Paltan. Paltan Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Salauddin Mia said miscreants hurled two crude bombs ...
- Syria: 15 injured in bomb attack in Afrin
November 19, 2023
Fifteen victims were injured Saturday in a bombing terrorist attack in the Afrin district in northern Syria, sources said. The bomb in the cargo bed of a freight truck in the ...
- Germany: WWII grenade found near presidential palace detonated
November 17, 2023
A World War II grenade found at a garden near the German presidential palace was safely detonated, local media reported on Friday. The old tank grenade was found in the morning ...
- Drones as weapons: Africa needs better data to anticipate risk
November 17, 2023
In October this year, Africa’s air force chiefs of staff and air force industry representatives gathered in Senegal. They agreed the continent urgently needed to develop sophisticated air defences in ...
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