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- Pakistan: Three terrorists killed while assembling IED in Dera Ismail Khan
July 4, 2025
Three suspected terrorists were killed in a powerful explosion here on Thursday while preparing an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kot Kandiyan village, located in Kulachi tehsil. According to police officials, ...
- Cambodia: ERW casualties drop 31% in first half of 2025
July 4, 2025
Cambodia saw 24 casualties from landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and explosive remnants of war (ERW) in the first half of 2025, a 31% decrease from the same period last year, ...
- EDU turns 50: Celebrating the past and high-tech future of the BC RCMP’s Explosives Disposal Unit
July 3, 2025
2025 marks a milestone for the BC RCMP’s Explosives Disposal Unit (EDU), as the unit celebrates 50 years of service in British Columbia. Started with just two part-time members in 1975 ...
- Colombia Seizes Remote-Controlled Narco-Submarine Equipped with Starlink Antenna
July 3, 2025
Colombia has seized a remote-controlled, unmanned narco-submarine, designed for autonomous operations and equipped with a Starlink antenna. According to local authorities, it belongs to local Gulf Clan (Clan del Golfo) drug ...
- Ukraine: Former mayor killed, three others injured in explosion in Lugansk
July 3, 2025
Former head of Lugansk Manolis Pilavov has been killed by an explosion in the center of the city. Investigators classified the explosion as a terrorist attack. According to preliminary data, the ...
- California: Seven “unaccounted for” after fireworks warehouse explosion
July 3, 2025
Seven people are “unaccounted for” after several explosions at a fireworks warehouse resulted in a fire in Northern California’s Yolo County, officials said. It happened Tuesday evening in the community of ...
- UK: Four charged in terror probe over break-in at RAF Brize Norton and causing £7m of damage
July 3, 2025
Four people have appeared in court over the break-in at RAF Brize Norton after £7million of damage was inflicted. The group Palestine Action have claimed the damage on two Voyager ...
- Ukraine preparing to produce anti-personnel landmines after leaving Ottawa Convention
July 2, 2025
Ukraine has decided to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines. Ukrainian manufacturers are already preparing to launch domestic production, Media Center Ukraine reports, citing Fedir Venislavskyi, Representative of ...
- Somali Danab Commandos kill senior Al-Shabaab leader in Lower Shabelle region
July 2, 2025
The Somali National Army’s elite Danab Commandos have killed a senior Al-Shabaab leader and eight of his bodyguards in a targeted operation conducted in the Bariire area of the Lower ...
- Pakistan: Assistant Commissioner, tehsildar among five killed in Bajaur explosion
July 2, 2025
At least five people were martyred and 11 others sustained injuries after a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeted a double-cabin official vehicle near the Sadiqueabad crossing in Khar ...
- Ukraine strengthens capacities to investigate, prosecute and adjudicate CBRN crimes with EU-supported course
July 2, 2025
As Ukraine faces complex security challenges amid ongoing conflict and external aggression, the risk of incidents involving chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) materials has intensified. Accidental releases, sabotage, or the ...
- Afghanistan: Explosion kills two in Ghor province
July 2, 2025
Decades after major conflicts in Afghanistan, unexploded ordnance (UXO) continues to claim innocent lives—especially among children. In the latest tragedy, two young nomadic children were killed and another was injured ...
- Iran president signs law suspending cooperation with IAEA
July 2, 2025
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has signed a law suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), amid growing tensions between Tehran and the UN nuclear watchdog following Israeli and ...
- Nigeria: Separate IED explosions kill teenager, injure 2, destroy bridge in Borno
July 1, 2025
A fresh wave of terror attacks linked to suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters has rocked parts of Borno State, leaving a teenage girl dead, two civilians injured, ...
- Ukraine: In the first half of 2025, Ministry of Defence demining specialists cleared over 41,000 hectares of land
July 1, 2025
From January to June 2025, mine clearance units of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine cleared 41,243 hectares of land of explosive ordnance in areas previously liberated from russian occupation. This ...
- Wisconsin: Milwaukee Police search for suspect who exploded ‘makeshift’ tennis ball bomb in neighborhood
July 1, 2025
An unidentified man allegedly built a homemade bomb hidden inside of a tennis ball and planted it in a strangers’ residential garage. According to homeowner Britney Ortiz Djuric, she heard a ...
- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 299
July 1, 2025
The IAEA team based at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been informed of a drone attack that damaged several vehicles near the site’s cooling pond last week, Director ...
- Iraq: UNAMI condemns ‘attack’ on Yazidi IDP Camp in Duhok
July 1, 2025
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) on Tuesday strongly condemned an explosion that struck the Darkar camp housing internally displaced Yazidis in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, calling ...
- Nigeria: ISWAP Terrorists Eliminated While Planting IEDs on Borno Highway
June 30, 2025
Troops of Sector 2, Operation Hadin Kai, have successfully neutralised two suspected fighters of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) who were attempting to plant Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) ...
- Northern Ireland: Man charged with possessing armour-plating explosive device granted bail
June 30, 2025
A Co Fermanagh man charged with possessing an armour-plating explosive device has been granted bail at the High Court. A judge ruled there were “exceptional circumstances’’ to permit Emmett Maguire to ...
- Iraq: Kirkuk Air Base and residential area hit by rocket attack
June 30, 2025
At least two rockets struck the Kirkuk Air Base and a nearby residential neighborhood in Kirkuk governorate on Monday night (June 30, 2025), according to security sources. One source reported that ...
- Colorado: ‘Large, homemade firecracker’ shuts down CSPD’s Falcon substation
June 30, 2025
Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) says that a “large, homemade firecracker” temporarily shut down parts of the Falcon substation on Sunday. According to CSPD, at approximately 11:30 a.m. on June 29, ...
- U.S. Navy and Marine Corps EOD Technicians Conduct Live Mine Countermeasure Operations During IWO-TO LIVE MINEX 2025
June 29, 2025
IWOTO, Japan – U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 participated in IWO-TO LIVE MINEX 2025, a bilateral mine countermeasures (MCM) ...
- Israel: IDF destroys IED site in northern Gaza
June 29, 2025
Troops from the Givati Brigade, under the command of the 162nd Division, are operating in the area of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip as part of Operation “Gideon’s Chariots”. In ...
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