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- Israel: 8 IDF soldiers wounded in Jenin gun battle, armored vehicle bombed
June 19, 2023
Eight IDF soldiers were wounded in the terrorist hotbed of Jenin on Monday after an arrest operation turned into a shootout that lasted nearly eight hours. The forces were ambushed by ...
- India: 5 children injured in crude bomb blast in West Bengal
June 19, 2023
Five children aged between 7 and 11 years were injured when a crude bomb went off in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Monday, a police officer said. The incident took place ...
- Europol publishes European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend report 2023 (TE-SAT)
June 19, 2023
Terrorism and extremism remain serious threats to public security in the European Union (EU). Europol is tasked with supporting Member State authorities as they combat terrorism and extremism, building a ...
- Afghanistan: Mine explosion kills 1 in Wardak province
June 18, 2023
A provincial police officer in Wardak province said one person was killed in a mine explosion on Sunday. According to the official, an explosive device concealed amid rubbish exploded on Saturday ...
- Jammu and Kashmir: Large cache of rusted explosive material seized underneath rocks in Poonch
June 18, 2023
Security forces on Sunday dug out a large quantity of rusted explosive material, including 11 RPG rounds and grenades, from underneath rocks in a forested area in Jammu and Kashmir’s ...
- Germany: WWII bomb detonated in controlled explosion
June 18, 2023
A British bomb from World War II was detonated in a controlled explosion in Hanover on Sunday. More than 8,000 residents were forced to leave their homes in the central ...
- Bangladesh: Bomb-like object found in Natore ICT Institute principal’s room defused
June 18, 2023
A team of Counter Terrorism and Bomb Disposal Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) defused a crude bomb found in front of Government Bangabandhu Technical and ICT Institute principal’s room ...
- Ukraine: Working group on humanitarian demining to develop mine action strategy
June 18, 2023
“A working group will be created as part of the Interdepartmental Working Group, which will develop the Strategy. Executive bodies were invited to submit candidacies to the group. We are planning ...
- Britain gets new elite counter terror troops to support police and MI5
June 17, 2023
Military chiefs have formed a new domestic counter-terror unit to offset pressure on Britain’s Special Forces. Razor Squadron is the first new special operations team to be established since the creation ...
- India: Three policemen injured in IED explosion during training at Chhattisgarh
June 17, 2023
Three police constables suffered injuries after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded during a training exercise at a jungle warfare college in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, police said on June 17. The ...
- Bangladesh: IED planted by separatist group KNF kills soldier
June 17, 2023
A soldier has died in the explosion of an improvised explosive device planted by the Kuki-Chin National Front, an ethnic separatist group. Army personnel were on their way to Painum Para ...
- Cambodian war mines removed from Thai border
June 17, 2023
Mines dating back to the Cambodian Civil War five decades ago were successfully removed from Thai territory along the border with Cambodia on Friday. The Thailand Mine Action Centre (TMAC) of ...
- Philippines: 2 persons planted IED on lawyer’s vehicle in Davao
June 16, 2023
Police are looking for two individuals who might have planted an improvised explosive device on the vehicle of lawyer Alberto Magulta that exploded outside his office along Ecowest Drive in ...
- Thailand: Four police, villager hurt in Yala roadside bombing
June 15, 2023
Four police officers providing protection for teachers and one villager were hurt in a roadside bomb attack in Raman district of Yala province on Thursday morning. The blast occurred on a ...
- Ukraine: Sweden sending 250 mine detectors to search for landmines scattered after Kakhovka dam flooding
June 15, 2023
Sweden has sent 250 mine detectors to Ukraine to eliminate the consequences of Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka dam, Sweden’s Ministry of Defense reported on June 14. The equipment sent by ...
- Nigeria: NAF destroys explosive factory in air raids in Borno state
June 15, 2023
Scores of fighters of the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) have been reportedly killed in military airstrikes. According to a publication focused on the Lake Chad region, a factory ...
- US Army, Air Force EOD techs train for clearance operations during island hopping missions
June 14, 2023
PATRICK SPACE FORCE BASE, Fla. — U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians trained for explosive clearance operations designed to support remote airfield operations during island hopping ...
- Iraq: Demining agency clears a minefield in Soran independent administration
June 14, 2023
The General Directorate of the Iraqi Kurdistan Mine Action Agency (MAA) in Erbil on Wednesday announced in a statement that they had defused a number of mines in the Sidekan ...
- Kenya: 8 Officers killed as Al-Shabaab stage three attacks in Wajir, Garissa, Lamu
June 14, 2023
At least eight police officers were killed Tuesday in Bodhei at the border of Lamu and Garissa counties when the vehicle they were travelling in ran over an Improvised Explosive ...
- Pakistan: Barkhan landmine blast claims two lives
June 14, 2023
At least two people were killed in a landmine explosion in Balochistan’s Barkhan district on Tuesday morning. The landmine explosion took place near the Barkhan border with the troubled Kohlu district. ...
- US to provide depleted-uranium tank rounds to Ukraine
June 14, 2023
The United States is expected to approve the transfer of depleted-uranium anti-tank shells to help Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move follows weeks ...
- Philippines: Security forces foiled an attempt to topple NGCP tower in N. Cotabato
June 13, 2023
Army and police bomb experts foiled an attempt by lawless elements to topple a transmission tower of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in this town, military and ...
- Landmine Use in Ukraine
June 13, 2023
This background briefing surveys the types of landmines used in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion began on February 24, 2022. Antipersonnel mines explode by the presence, proximity, or contact of ...
- Afghanistan: Land mine explosion injures 3 children in Nuristan province
June 13, 2023
Taliban officials in Nuristan province said at least three children sustained injuries from a land mine explosion in the Kamdish district of eastern Nuristan province. Sameulhaq Bayan, the head of the ...
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