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- India: 500 detonators, 28 IEDs seized by security forces in Jharkhand
June 29, 2025
Security forces seized a huge quantity of explosives from a Maoist dump in a forest in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharswan district, a police officer said on Sunday. The explosives including 500 electronic detonators ...
- Syria: Emergency Minister, International Organizations discuss structure of National Mine Action Center
June 29, 2025
Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh discussed with representatives of international organizations and UN agencies the draft work plan for the National Mine Action Center in Syria and ...
- Israel: IDF sapper killed in IED explosion in Gaza Strip
June 29, 2025
The Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday that Sergeant Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld had been killed in action in the the Gaza Strip. According to reports, Rosenfeld was fatally wounded as an ...
- Ukraine on track to withdraw from Ottawa anti-personnel mines treaty
June 29, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had signed a decree to pull Ukraine out of the Ottawa Convention banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines as a necessary ...
- Pakistan: Two terrorists killed, two arrested in Balochistan’s Duki district
June 29, 2025
Security forces on Sunday killed two terrorists and apprehended two others during an operation in Balochistan’s Duki district, a statement from the military’s media wing said. The statement, issued by the ...
- Malian Army Kills Senior ISIS Leader In The Greater Sahara
June 29, 2025
The General Staff of the Malian Armed Forces announced on Saturday the killing of a prominent foreign leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), during a military ...
- Nigeria: IED explosion kills four, injures 21 others in Yobe State
June 28, 2025
A suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) killed four persons and injured 21 others on Friday, along the Katarko-Goniri Road in the Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. The victims, mostly from ...
- Thailand: Hidden explosives uncovered in sand at Patong Beach
June 28, 2025
Holidaymakers were left rattled as police scoured Phuket’s beaches to unearth a series of hidden explosive devices planted by suspects intent on chaos. Police confirmed yesterday evening, June 27, that the ...
- Iraq: Landmine explosion kills shepherd in Erbil Governorate
June 28, 2025
On Saturday, a young man was killed when a landmine exploded in Sidekan district, north of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region. According to the Erbil Directorate of Mine Affairs, ...
- Pakistan: 13 security personnel martyred in North Waziristan suicide bombing: ISPR
June 28, 2025
Thirteen security personnel were martyred in a suicide bombing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district on Saturday, carried out by Indian proxy Fitna-al-Khawarij, according to a statement from the Inter-Services ...
- DEVCOM CBC Supports Readiness of CBRN Equipment
June 27, 2025
CB Defense Today is an interview program featuring experts who discuss innovations, technologies, and partnerships relevant to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) and ...
- California: 3,300 pounds of illegal fireworks seized, 3 arrested in San Jose police raids
June 27, 2025
San Jose police arrested three men and seized more than 3,300 pounds of illegal fireworks in a series of recent raids, SJPD said Friday. San Jose residents David Benito-Carbajal, 31, Juan ...
- Maryland: Master Explosive Ordnance Disposal tech completes career at 20th CBRNE Command
June 27, 2025
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – A U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal master sergeant completed his more than two decades of Army service at the nation’s premier multifunctional Chemical, Biological, Radiological, ...
- Cambodia approaches completion of minefield survey along Thai border
June 27, 2025
Cambodia is nearing the completion of its most extensive minefield survey, which aims to uncover the full extent of explosive contamination along its borders with Thailand, areas heavily affected by ...
- IAEA: Update on Developments in Iran
June 27, 2025
Radiation levels in the Gulf region remain normal following the 12-day conflict that severely damaged several nuclear facilities in Iran, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency ...
- Jersey: Royal Navy divers remove “high-explosive projectile” from local waters
June 26, 2025
Royal Navy divers have helped dispose of a “high-explosive projectile” lurking in local waters. The “historic” live ordnance was initially spotted by a civilian diver in the sea at Bouley ...
- Cambodia discovers another war-left U.S. aerial bomb M117 in Takeo province
June 26, 2025
Cambodia has found and safely removed another war-left U.S.-made M117 aerial bomb in southern Takeo province, a mine clearance chief said late on Tuesday. Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC)’s Director General ...
- New Zealand: Divers disable WWII mines in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf
June 26, 2025
The navy has neutralised a set of World War II-era mines found on the seafloor in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckand. According to the New Zealand Defence Force, the mines were ...
- Thailand: Bomb squads destroy more devices in Phuket and Krabi
June 26, 2025
Police bomb squads destroyed suspected explosive devices in two southern tourist provinces on Thursday following the arrest of two suspects linked to a suspicious object found at the Phuket airport ...
- Nigeria: 4 Killed, 10 Injured In Fresh IED Explosion In Borno
June 25, 2025
Four persons have been killed while 10 others sustained injuries when an Isuzu vehicle conveying passengers from Damboa to Maiduguri, Borno State rammed into an improvised explosive device (IED) suspected ...
- South Korea: Arson suspect indicted over subway fire in Seoul
June 25, 2025
A 67-year-old man was indicted Wednesday on charges of committing arson with intent inside a subway train in Seoul last month, according to prosecutors. The man, surnamed Won, has been accused ...
- Pakistan: At least four killed, four injured in roadside IED blast in Parachinar
June 25, 2025
Four people were killed and four others were injured in a roadside bomb blast on Wednesday in the Sharamkhel area of Pewar, Parachinar, in Upper Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...
- Thailand: Suspected explosive device destroyed at Phuket airport
June 25, 2025
Authorities have destroyed a suspicious object found in an abandoned motorcycle at Phuket International Airport on Wednesday evening. Officials from the police Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit and the K-9 police ...
- Israel: 7 IDF soldiers killed in Gaza IED attack
June 25, 2025
Seven Israeli combat engineers, ages 19-21, killed in devastating IED attack in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday when terrorist attached explosive to their armored vehicle, marking ...
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