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- Western Australia: Police accused of being slow to respond to alleged homemade bomb at Perth Invasion Day rally
February 17, 2026
Sisonke Msimang had no way of knowing the item she picked up while in the crowd at a Perth Invasion Day rally was what police allege was a homemade bomb ...
- Pakistan: Militants kill 11 security personnel, one child near Afghan border
February 17, 2026
Militants rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into an army checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing 11 security personnel and a child, the military said on Tuesday. Women and children were among ...
- UK: Man arrested after ‘significant number of illegal weapons’ found in house in Abergwynfi
February 16, 2026
A man has been arrested after a report of a ‘significant number of illegal weapons’ discovered at a property in Abergwynfi, Neath Port Talbot. Officers attended an address on Commercial Street, ...
- Kenya: Capacity consultations to strengthen Eastern Africa’s response to terrorist use of IEDs
February 16, 2026
The Global Programme on Countering Terrorist Use of Weaponsof the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) co-organized a capacity consultations workshop with the National Counter Terrorism Centre of Kenya (NCTC) ...
- Pakistan: At least 2 killed, 17 injured in explosion near police station in Bannu
February 16, 2026
At least two people were killed and 17 others injured in a powerful explosion near Miryan Police Station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Monday. According to a statement by the ...
- India: NSG conducts counter-IED training for J&K Police
February 16, 2026
The National Security Guard (NSG) successfully conducted a two-week advanced training programme on Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (CIED) for personnel of Jammu and Kashmir Police in Udhampur district, said officials. The ...
- Afghanistan: The hidden explosive threat
February 16, 2026
In Afghanistan, the guns have fallen silent, but the war remains buried beneath the soil in the form of deadly explosive items, including landmines and unexploded remnants of war. The ...
- Nigeria: 11 suspected bandits killed in Zamfara in IED blast
February 16, 2026
No fewer than 11 suspected bandits have died after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated while they were allegedly transporting it for an attack in Zamfara State. The explosion occurred near ...
- Ukraine: Car explosion in Odesa Injures one person
February 16, 2026
In the morning of February 16, 2026, on Akademika Korovла Street in Odesa, there was an explosion of a passenger car, injuring one person. According to preliminary data, a 56-year-old man ...
- India: Deadly Bhubaneswar rooftop blast caught on camera
February 16, 2026
Investigators believe the explosion occurred while explosive materials were being handled on the rooftop. Gunpowder was recovered from the site, strengthening suspicions that crude bombs were being assembled there. A CCTV ...
- Burkina Faso: Mlitant attacks on army leave at least 10 dead
February 16, 2026
Suspected Islamist militants attacked an army unit in northern Burkina Faso Sunday, the latest in a series of alleged militant attacks that have killed at least 10 people in four ...
- Thailand: Reports of 6 newly laid mines in Trat province
February 15, 2026
Thailand’s Humanitarian Mine Action Unit has discovered six newly planted PMN-2 anti-personnel landmines in Ban Chamrak, Muang district, confirming they were recently laid by Cambodian forces. The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) ...
- U.S. military completes transfer of 5,700 IS detainees from Syria to Iraq
February 13, 2026
The U.S. military has completed the transfer of thousands of Islamic State group detainees from Syria to Iraq, where they are expected to stand trial in the future, the U.S. ...
- Israel: Over 200 arrested, guns, and explosives confiscated in major Arab crime crackdown
February 13, 2026
The Israel Police in the North confiscated around 200 illegal weapons and arrested over 200 suspects over the last few weeks in a major crackdown on crime in Arab communities, ...
- Pakistan: Frontier Works Organisation worker killed, army officer injured in Diamer IED attack
February 13, 2026
A Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) worker was martyred, while three others including an army major, were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded near an FWO vehicle in the ...
- Northern Ireland: Man accused of storing explosives in Belfast home not ideologically driven or linked to terrorism
February 12, 2026
A man accused of storing explosives in his south Belfast home is not ideologically driven or linked to terrorism, the High Court heard today. Dangerous chemicals and an improvised grenade were ...
- Colorado: Pueblo police officers injured in explosion during evidence collection at bomb range
February 12, 2026
Two officers with the Pueblo Police Department’s (PPD) Pueblo Metro Bomb Squad (PMBS) Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) have been injured during an ongoing criminal investigation. According to the city, around 10:35 ...
- Texas: Paris police investigating explosion from apparent IED
February 12, 2026
Officers in Paris responded to a scene of sparks raining down from overhead electrical lines at a vacant lot after an explosion was heard Thursday morning. According to Paris Police, officers ...
- Niger: Roadside bomb kills civilians near Baroua in Diffa region
February 12, 2026
An improvised explosive device struck a mixed transport vehicle near Baroua in Niger’s Diffa region at around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, February 10, killing at least eight people at the ...
- Thailand: Thai soldier loses right ankle in landmine blast in Si Sa Ket
February 12, 2026
A Thai soldier was seriously injured after stepping on a landmine at Huai Ta Maria, opposite the Preah Vihear Temple in Si Sa Ket province, on Monday (November 10). The ...
- Pennsylvania: Arrest warrant unsealed in alleged bomb making case
February 11, 2026
An arrest of a Wilkes-Barre man in late December on allegations he attempted to make an explosive device was based on online searches of recent terroristic attacks using homemade explosives ...
- Ukraine: State Emergency Service destroyed Russian Kh-101 missile warhead
February 11, 2026
In the Pervomaisk district of the Mykolaiv region, rescuers from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) destroyed the warhead of a Russian Kh-101 missile. This was reported by the Main ...
- Thailand: Road-culvert bomb injures three in Narathiwat, missing police patrol
February 11, 2026
A bomb planted in a culvert beneath a road in Ban Kado village, Moo 4, Rueso district, Narathiwat, exploded on Wednesday (February 11), injuring three people and damaging a vehicle. Pol ...
- US Military warns EOD techs against uploading ‘highly sensitive’ bomb disposal data into generative AI systems
February 10, 2026
The military’s top EOD technology authority recently warned bomb technicians against uploading restricted technical material into generative artificial intelligence systems — including Pentagon-approved platforms and commercial offerings. Internal correspondence reviewed by ...
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