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- Syria: Legacy of war still causing mass death and injury, says landmine clearance charity
January 9, 2025
At least 80 civilians, including 12 children, have been killed by landmines and other explosive debris of war in the month since the Syrian strongman Bashar Al-Assad was toppled on ...
- Pakistan: Militants loot, torch several buildings in brazen attack on Khuzdar
January 9, 2025
Armed gunmen launched a brazen attack on the main bazaar in tehsil Zehri of Khuzdar district on Wednesday morning, setting fire to multiple government buildings, including a Levies Force station, ...
- UK: Car blown up by police in bomb scare in London ‘was left with charger plugged in for week’
January 9, 2025
A car destroyed by police during a central London bomb scare had reportedly raised suspicions after being left for a week with a charging cable plugged into its dashboard. A wrecked ...
- Chad: Attack on presidential palace leaves 19 dead
January 9, 2025
An attack on Chad’s presidential palace left 18 assailants dead and six in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded, state media reported Thursday. The attack on Wednesday night occurred ...
- Israel: IDF continues targeting Syrian military capabilities in fresh attacks
January 9, 2025
The IDF on Thursday made a surprising announcement that it is continuing some attack missions against Syrian military capabilities and not merely holding onto buffer zones, which it seized in ...
- Ukraine: Couple who made explosives for Dnipro 14 December attack detained
January 9, 2025
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the National Police have detained two more suspects involved in the terrorist attack in Dnipro on 14 December 2024 which killed one and ...
- Cambodia sees spike in landmine, ERW casualties in 2024
January 9, 2025
Cambodia recorded 49 landmines and explosive remnant of war (ERW) casualties in 2024, up 53 percent from 32 in the year before, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. “Twelve people were killed, ...
- Iraq builds 400km concrete wall along Syria border
January 8, 2025
Iraq has completed the construction of 400 kilometres of a 615-kilometre concrete wall along its border with Syria, the head of the country’s Security Media Cell, Tahsin Al-Khafaji, said yesterday. Speaking ...
- Ukraine: 35,000 sq km of land demined in just under three years
January 8, 2025
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, mine clearance experts have demined 35,000 sq km of Ukrainian territory, with 17,000 sq km cleared in 2024. Yuliia Svyrydenko, Ukraine’s First ...
- Iceland: Bomb defused in Eyjafjörður at dawn
January 8, 2025
The torpedo bomb that got caught in the fishing gear of a trawler was pulled out into Eyjafjörður this evening and placed in a place where it will be destroyed ...
- UK: Controlled explosion carried out after ‘suspicious item’ found in house in Manchester
January 8, 2025
Police have carried out a controlled explosion after a “suspicious item” was found at a house in south Manchester. Officers made the discovery after raiding a property in Fencot Drive, ...
- UAE places 19 individuals, entities on its Local Terrorist List
January 8, 2025
The UAE has decided to add 19 individuals and entities to its Local Terrorist List for their links to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organisation. This decision has been made under ...
- Finland sends CBRN protective equipment, detector to Ukraine
January 8, 2025
Finland has for the first time delivered assistance from an EU-funded rescEU stockpile to a country that has requested assistance, said an official government press release. This week, a truckload of ...
- Japanese Yakuza Leader Pleads Guilty to Nuclear Materials Trafficking, Narcotics, and Weapons Charges
January 8, 2025
Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of Japan, pleaded guilty in Manhattan, New York, today to conspiring with a network of associates to traffic nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, from Burma ...
- Micronesia: Palau is littered with WWII munitions 80 years after the war
January 8, 2025
Palauan Sharla Paules surveys the contaminated ground of her lush tropical home island of Peleliu, still littered with WWII munitions 80 years after its liberation from the Japanese. She recalls as ...
- Israel: Police sappers remove rocket remnants from Kfar Saba school
January 7, 2025
Police sappers (bomb disposal personnel) removed the remnants of an old rocket discovered at a school in Kfar Saba, the police announced Tuesday. An initial investigation revealed that while students were ...
- Nevada: Cybertruck driver used ChatGPT to plan Las Vegas attack
January 7, 2025
Police found a six-page manifesto on Matthew Livelsberger’s phone and said he used ChatGPT to plan his New Year’s Day bombing at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. A ...
- Sweden: Three arrested after explosion in Malmö
January 7, 2025
Three people in their 20s have been arrested after an explosion at a property near Valdemarsro in Malmö’s outskirts. Someone has placed some kind of homemade bomb, says Thomas Paulsson, officer ...
- 11 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay transferred to Oman
January 7, 2025
Eleven Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Oman, marking yet another detainee transfer from the military prison in the final days of the Biden administration. Defense Secretary Lloyd ...
- Iceland joins in funding Danish model for Ukrainian weapons production
January 7, 2025
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has expressed gratitude to Iceland for its recent contribution to producing Ukrainian weapons under the Danish model. Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir arrived in Kyiv ...
- Norwegian People’s Aid Vietnam commences Quality Management Training
January 6, 2025
Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) Vietnam has kicked off the new year with a focused Quality Management Refresher Training for its teams in Quang Tri Province. Conducted over two days from January ...
- Pakistan Taliban threatens military-run businesses amid rising violence
January 6, 2025
The outlawed armed group Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, has issued a warning to the Pakistani army, stating that it will continue targeting security personnel and expand its ...
- Netherlands: Police “frustrated and desperate” about firework violence
January 6, 2025
A growing number of police officers have had enough of the way they become targets during the New Year festivities and are accusing the government of failing to act to ...
- Syria: Dozens of pro-Turkey and Kurdish forces killed in fighting in Aleppo Governorate
January 5, 2025
At least 101 fighters have been killed in northern Syria over the past two days amid fighting between Turkish-backed forces and Syrian Kurdish fighters, according to a war monitor. The Syrian ...
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