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- Syria: YPG reluctant to hand over Daesh prison camp to new Syrian rulers
January 21, 2025
U.S.-backed terrorist group PKK/YPG, which runs a jail in northeastern Syria for Daesh members, says they oppose handing the facility over to the new rulers of Syria. They cite possible ...
- Japan: WWII explosive removed from city building site on Okinawa
January 21, 2025
Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from World War II from a construction site in Okinawa’s capital city over the weekend. Five members of the Japan ...
- Israel: One soldier killed, another one wounded in IED explosion in the West Bank
January 20, 2025
The IDF announced on Monday that at around 8:30 a.m. Sgt.-Maj. Eviatar Ben Yehuda was killed, and another officer was severely wounded in the West Bank when a David vehicle ...
- Netherlands: 15 arrested in explosive attack crackdown
January 20, 2025
A large-scale police operation across the Netherlands has resulted in the arrest of 15 individuals, ranging in age from 14 to 25, for their involvement in a series of explosive ...
- Cambodia extends mine-free goal to 2030
January 19, 2025
Cambodia has extended its mine-free goal to 2030 from the previous 2025 target, due to geographical difficulties for mine search and clearance along the border, a spokesperson for the Cambodian ...
- Israel: 3 hostages handed over to IDF forces after 471 days in Hamas captivity
January 19, 2025
After 471 days in Hamas captivity, Emily Damari, Romi Gonen and Doron Steinbrecher reunite with their mothers and airlifted to Sheba Medical Center. The IDF confirmed that the hostages crossed into ...
- Finding Unexploded WWII Bombs In Germany Is Run-Of-The-Mill
January 19, 2025
Last month, an 1,100-pound unexploded bomb from WWII, believed to be of American origin, was uncovered near Cologne, Germany, where a construction crew had been digging. Some 3,000 people were ...
- Ukraine: Authorities arrest 15 illegal arms dealers across four regions
January 19, 2025
The Security Service and National Police ran a special operation to expose the illegal sale of trophy firearms and ammunition in four regions. As a result of the special raid, ...
- Colombia: At least 80 people killed in northeast as peace talks fail
January 19, 2025
More than 80 people have been killed in the country’s northeast region following failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian official said. Twenty others have ...
- Sweden: Two injured in Stockholm explosion
January 18, 2025
The alarm about a powerful explosion at an apartment building in Johanneshov in southern Stockholm came at 04:22 on Saturday morning. The shockwave blew out a large number of windows. ...
- UK: WW2 ordnance found in island garden blown up
January 18, 2025
An unexploded World War Two ordnance has been removed and blown up after being found in an Isle of Wight garden. The device was discovered in the garden of a ...
- Iran: Two Supreme Court judges assassinated in Tehran
January 18, 2025
An assailant has opened fire near the Supreme Court headquarters in the Iranian capital, Tehran, killing at least two judges. Informed sources told IRNA that the two judges were killed ...
- Alabama: Man sentenced to ten years for setting off bomb outside of Alabama Attorney General’s office
January 17, 2025
The man charged with setting off a bomb outside the office of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall last year has pleaded guilty and been sentenced on state charges. Marshall said ...
- Syria: Car bomb kills two, injures eight in Manbij
January 17, 2025
A powerful explosion shook Manbij in eastern Aleppo on Friday, claiming the lives of two men and injuring eight others. The blast, caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) planted ...
- Libyan authorities destroy 2 tons of explosive war remnants
January 17, 2025
The Libyan Ministry of Interior on Thursday announced destroying two tons of explosive remnants of war in the city of Misurata, some 200 km east of the capital Tripoli. ” The ...
- Cambodia: 2 deminers killed as they attempted to render safe anti-tank mine
January 17, 2025
Two Cambodian deminers were killed Thursday as they attempted to remove an anti-tank mine left over from the country’s nearly three decades of war and disorder, authorities said. The Cambodian Mines ...
- India: Two BSF personnel, civilians injured in IED explosions in Chhattisgarh
January 17, 2025
Two personnel of the Border Security Force were injured when Naxalites set off an improvised explosive device (IED) in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Friday, police said. The incident took place ...
- Netherlands: Fear of explosions grows as attacks surge across the country
January 16, 2025
The increasing number of explosions across the Netherlands is driving fear among residents, with thousands seeking support from victim assistance organizations. The number of attacks involving explosives has escalated significantly in ...
- Nord Stream Pipeline Attack In 2022 Led To Biggest Single Human-Caused Methane Leak Ever
January 16, 2025
The sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022 not only heightened geopolitical tensions but also unleashed an unprecedented environmental event, releasing the largest recorded amount of methane from ...
- Russia: Two more people detained under case of NBC Troops commander Kirillov’s murder
January 16, 2025
Two more individuals have been detained and charged in connection with the murder of Igor Kirillov, the former commander of Russia’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection troops, Investigative Committee Spokeswoman ...
- Iraq: Duhok clears over 540,000 square meters of explosives in 2024
January 16, 2025
On Thursday, the General Directorate for Mine Affairs in Duhok announced its 2024 statistics regarding efforts to remove explosive materials across the governorate. The Head of the Directorate, Shilan Naheli, told ...
- Israel: 10 IDF soldiers injured from explosion during weapons display
January 16, 2025
Three IDF soldiers were moderately injured, and seven others sustained light injuries on Wednesday night when a weapon exploded during a training exercise at the Engineering Corps Training Base in ...
- Cuba declares 13 soldiers dead after blast at military warehouse
January 16, 2025
Thirteen soldiers have died in a fire and ensuing explosion at a military warehouse in the eastern province of Holguin over a week ago, Cuba’s Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed ...
- Ukrainian brigade pioneers remote-controlled ground assaults
January 16, 2025
The boxy, machine gun-equipped vehicle lumbered across the snow-covered battlefield, with no crew aboard and marking what its remote Ukrainian operators described as a major milestone as Russian artillery fire ...
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