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- Texas: Shooter wearing Iranian flag shirt kills three, injures 14 in Austin
March 1, 2026
The FBI said it was examining “indicators” that suggest a possible terrorism link to a mass shooting early on Sunday in Austin, Texas, in which police said at least three ...
- Pakistan: 9 dead in violent clashes near US Consulate in Karachi
March 1, 2026
Nine people died in Karachi on Sunday, a hospital official said, after protesters clashed with law enforcement personnel near the US Consulate on Mai Kolachi Road, as protests erupted countrywide ...
- India: CoBRA assistant commandant injured in IED blast in Jharkhand
March 1, 2026
Assistant Commandant Ajay Mallick, Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) of CRPF, was injured in an IED blast during a search operation being conducted against the Maoists in the Saranda ...
- Iraqi armed group, Yemen’s Houthis threaten to target US bases as Iran-Israel confrontation widens
February 28, 2026
Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah group on Saturday threatened to begin attacking US military bases after a strike in Jurf al-Nasr area of Iraq’s Babil province killed two people and injured three ...
- US and Israel launch massive attack on Iran
February 28, 2026
The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, killing the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in an astonishing joint military operation that could dramatically shift the power dynamics ...
- Philippines: ‘Terror group member’ deported by US arrested upon arrival
February 27, 2026
A suspected member of a terror group which was tagged in the 2018 bombing in General Santos City has been deported by the United States government and arrived in Manila ...
- UK: Counter terrorism police arrest two people in Hull with ‘potentially suspicious items’ found
February 27, 2026
A man and a woman have been arrested in Hull following a raid by counter terror police at a property in Morpeth Street yesterday. The pair, both 23, were arrested ...
- Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
February 27, 2026
Interior Minister Davor Božinović announced Friday that Croatia is officially free of landmines. Thirty-one years after the end of the Homeland War, all known minefields have been cleared — a ...
- Anti-personnel mines are back in Europe
February 27, 2026
To mark Poland’s official withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention or the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, Julia Głębocka, Human rights researcher for Amnesty International Poland, reflects on what the return of ...
- Wisconsin: Police find homemade explosives, weapons in drug trafficking bust at Green Bay house
February 26, 2026
A man accused of dealing drugs in Green Bay is also charged with having more than a dozen different homemade bombs at his home. The improvised explosive devices were found during ...
- Civilians face increasing harm from deadly explosive weapons
February 26, 2026
Dr Stacey Pizzino from UQ’s School of Public Health collated information on 105,931 casualties in 17 countries and regions across Asia, Europe, Africa and South America. “This is the first pooled ...
- Pakistan, Afghan forces clash after days of hostilities
February 26, 2026
Pakistani and Afghan border forces clashed on Thursday night after the Taliban launched what it called retaliatory strikes on Pakistani installations, sharply escalating tensions after days of cross-border hostilities. Afghan forces ...
- Winter 2026 edition of the Counter-IED Report magazine is now available to read online and in print
February 26, 2026
We are pleased to announce that Winter 2026 edition of the Counter-IED Report magazine is now available to read online and in print. Articles, in-depth analysis and insights by Rob Hyde-Bales, ...
- Syria: Army neutralizes car bomb in Aleppo
February 26, 2026
A bomb disposal team affiliated with the Syrian army successfully neutralized a car bomb Wednesday in Aleppo, according to the Syrian Defense Ministry. In a statement released by the ministry’s Media ...
- Cambodia Reaffirms Ottawa Convention Commitments Amid Reports of Anti-Personnel Mines Along Border
February 26, 2026
The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) has called for careful, objective, and responsible handling of reports concerning the discovery of anti-personnel mines along the Cambodia-Thailand border. In a ...
- UK: WWI shell defused in Hungerford
February 26, 2026
A suspected bomb uncovered on a building site in Hungerford has been confirmed as a WWI shell. Police and bomb disposal experts attended the site in Charnham Street and carried ...
- Cuba claims that the intercepted boat coming from the US had ‘terrorist purposes’
February 26, 2026
The Cuba’s Interior Ministry has reported that the 10 occupants of the speedboat intercepted in its territorial waters, which had departed from the United States, “intended to carry out an ...
- Burkina Faso: JNIM’s use of landmines and explosive devices
February 26, 2026
Burkina Faso has been one of the central battlegrounds in the Sahel’s expanding jihadist conflict for more than a decade. The al-Qaeda-affiliated coalition Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) is ...
- Pakistan: North Waziristan school building damaged in suspected drone strike
February 26, 2026
A government high school building in North Waziristan was severely damaged in a suspected drone strike late on Wednesday night, just days before educational institutions were scheduled to reopen. Fortunately, ...
- Michigan: Ionia corrections officer stockpiled 196 guns, explosives and stolen prison munitions
February 25, 2026
Newly obtained court records paint a far more alarming picture of the weapons and explosives authorities say they found at the home of an Ionia County corrections officer whose backyard ...
- Nigeria: ISWAP commander ‘dies from IED planted by his own faction’ in Borno
February 25, 2026
A senior commander of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has reportedly been killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by members of his own faction in Borno. According ...
- UNODC facilitates regional exchange on strengthening cross-border coordination in countering use of IEDs and drones in the Sahel
February 25, 2026
Terrorist violence continues to pose a serious threat to stability and security across West Africa, with the Sahel region remaining the epicentre of global terrorism-related deaths. In recent years, terrorist groups, ...
- Syria begins mine clearance at UNESCO-listed Ruwayha site in Idlib
February 25, 2026
Engineering teams have begun removing mines and unexploded ordnance from the archaeological site of Ruwayha in southern Idlib, the Syrian Arab Republic’s state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday. The operation ...
- Nigeria: Vehicle damaged in IED explosion in Zamfara
February 25, 2026
An Improvised Explosive Device exploded early Wednesday along the Gusau–Funtua highway in Zamfara State, damaging a trailer conveying cement at Unguwar Mai Chida and disrupting traffic. The device is suspected to ...
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