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- Ukraine: M1 Abrams-Based Mine Clearing Vehicle Appears In-Country
November 3, 2023
The U.S.-made M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV) will provide critical capabilities helping Ukrainian troops clear the hundreds of miles of dense mine fields the Russians have built up. The U.S. Army ...
- Israel: Police thwarts planned terror attack in east Jerusalem
November 2, 2023
The Israel Police reported Thursday that the police and Shin Bet foiled a planned terror attack against security forces in east Jerusalem last month, arrested two terror suspects, and uncovered ...
- Nigeria: Landmine blast kills 20 in Yobe state
November 2, 2023
Twenty mourners were killed when the vehicle transporting them from a funeral for victims of a jihadist attack hit a landmine in northeast Nigeria, pro-government militia and residents told AFP ...
- Ukraine Is Using AI to Help Clear Millions of Russian Landmines
November 2, 2023
The humanitarian process used to detect and clear unexploded land mines has changed little since World War II. Until recently, Ukraine had no unified database that kept track of surveyed ...
- Hamas Fighter Shown Placing Bomb On Israeli Merkava Tank
November 2, 2023
Hamas on Thursday released an intense video highlighting a real-time example of one of the biggest concerns Israeli military planners doubtlessly had for their invasion of Gaza. The 84-second video ...
- Bangladesh: Three crude bombs found in Nilkhet
November 2, 2023
Three crude bombs were recovered from the Nilkhet area of Dhaka on Thursday morning, on the last day of a three-day blockade enforced by the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and their allies. The ...
- RNZN to undertake historic survey and submerged WWII bomb disposal in Pacific Islands mission
November 1, 2023
Operation Calypso will involve the 70-strong Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) crew carrying out maritime security patrols, hydrographic surveys and community engagement activities during visits to Niue, Fiji and Vanuatu. While ...
- Laos to carry out project to assist people affected by Agent Orange
November 1, 2023
The National Regulatory Authority for the UXO/Mine Action Sector (NRA) in Laos agreed to partner with the War Legacies Project, which will see Phase II of a survey on the ...
- 300 More U.S. Troops Deploy to U.S. Central Command
October 31, 2023
An additional 300 U.S. troops will deploy to the U.S. Central Command area of operations from the continental United States, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said ...
- California: Man arrested after throwing pipe bombs at San Francisco patrol car during pursuit
October 31, 2023
A man has been arrested for allegedly knocking a parishioner unconscious inside a San Francisco Catholic church and throwing pipe bombs at a patrol car during a car chase, authorities ...
- Yemen’s Houthis say they launched missiles, drones at Israel
October 31, 2023
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group said it launched a “large number” of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Tuesday, after Israel’s military said it downed an approaching “aerial target” off ...
- What we know about Hamas’ huge rocket arsenal
October 31, 2023
The military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement has debuted a new torpedo, said to have been used for the first time in combat against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ...
- EOD Airmen bring innovation to a changing battlespace
October 31, 2023
JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – Airmen with the 87th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit partnered with the Innovation Lab here to streamline the process of making more realistic ...
- 9th Annual Defence Logistics Central and Eastern Europe Conference
October 31, 2023
18 – 19 March 2024 Budapest, Hungary http://www.defence-logisticscee.com/CounterIEDWL #DEFLOG Optimising Logistics Support as a Force Enabler for the Central and Eastern European Region SAE Media Group is proud to present the 8th Annual Defence ...
- France: Police open fire on woman who ‘made threats’ in Paris train station
October 31, 2023
According to witnesses the 38-year-old woman, who was completely veiled, shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is Greatest”) and “made threats”, a police source said, adding that “police fired because they feared ...
- Israel’s ‘Weasel’ commandos prepare for highly dangerous assault on Hamas underground defences
October 31, 2023
Israel’s military has developed a range of specialist tunnel fighters including killer drones and attack dogs to take on Hamas’s huge underground network. Officials on Tuesday revealed its forces attacked ...
- Colorado: Man found dead at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park had multiple bombs, semi-automatic weapons
October 30, 2023
The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a heavily armed man found dead Saturday morning at the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs. Authorities have not ...
- Cambodia: Kingdom’s noble ambition to be landmine free on the right path
October 30, 2023
The central province, famous for its palm sugar and wine, became the 13th province in the country to be cleared of landmines. Phnom Penh and 11 other provinces have been ...
- Nigeria: Explosion rocks Rivers Assembly amid threat to impeach Gov Fubara
October 30, 2023
An explosion hit the Rivers State House of Assembly complex on Sunday night. DAILY POST gathered that some suspected arsonists threw an explosive into the complex around 9:25 pm. The ...
- Kenya: Two GSU officers killed, 4 injured in IED attack in Garissa
October 30, 2023
At least two General Service Unit officers were killed and four others seriously injured on Monday morning when a remote-controlled bomb hit their vehicle in Dadaab, Garissa County. Police said the ...
- India, Malaysia conduct joint military exercise in Shillong
October 30, 2023
A Joint Exercise between India & Malaysia is progressing with full steam covering the vast canvas of multi domain operations in sub conventional environments at the Foreign Training Node in ...
- Israeli forces strike over 600 Hamas terror targets
October 30, 2023
The IDF says it struck over 600 terror targets in the past days in Gaza as the ground operations develop in the Strip. “During clashes with terrorists in the Gaza ...
- Morocco: Four blasts in Western Sahara kill one
October 29, 2023
Four explosions in the city of Smara in Morocco-controlled Western Sahara late on Saturday killed one man and injured three others, Moroccan local authorities said. The blasts damaged two houses, ...
- India: Kerala’s Ernakulam district blast caused by IED or IID
October 29, 2023
The blast during a Christian prayer meeting in Kerala’s Ernakulam district on Sunday, which killed one person and injured 36 others, was caused by an improvised explosive device, or IED, ...
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