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- Turkey: Senior figure of ISIS terror group captured in Afghanistan-Pakistan region
December 23, 2025
The individual had taken an active role in ISIS camps and had risen to a so-called administrator position over time. As a result of MIT’s intelligence work, it was identified ...
- Pakistan: Blast damages structures in Nasirabad
December 23, 2025
A powerful blast rocked the Rabi canal area of Nasirabad district on Monday, damaging some structures close to the blast area, but causing no human loss. Police said that some unknown ...
- Autonomy in Action: Advancing CBRN Defense Capabilities with Unmanned Systems
December 22, 2025
Our Nation’s warfighters encounter many known and unknown hazards on the modern battlefield including chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. Hand-held detection and identification capabilities enhance situational awareness and ...
- Estonia: Man arrested after deliberate explosion at Tallinn’s Ülemiste Centre
December 22, 2025
A 60-year-old man has been arrested in connection with Saturday’s explosion at Ülemiste Centre, Estonia’s largest shopping centre, which injured one person and prompted the evacuation of shoppers and staff. State ...
- Iraq: Floods unearth hidden mines, reviving a wartime threat from Kirkuk to the Iran border
December 22, 2025
Heavy rains and flash floods are bringing an old danger back to the surface across Iraq: landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) long buried under soil that many communities had come ...
- Singapore: St Joseph’s Church volunteer used wires, cardboard rolls for fake improvised explosive device
December 22, 2025
The police have arrested a 26-year-old church volunteer in connection with the case of a suspicious item found at St Joseph’s Church in Bukit Timah on Sunday (Dec 22) morning. In ...
- Russia: Senior Russian general killed in bomb blast in Moscow
December 22, 2025
The head of the Operational Training Directorate at the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, was killed in an explosion in southern Moscow on Monday ...
- India: Security forces destroy 601 acres of poppy cultivation, seize 9-kg IED
December 21, 2025
Security forces have destroyed about 601 acres of illegal poppy cultivation across Manipur over the past five days, from December 16 to 20, and recovered a 9-kg improvised explosive device ...
- Nigeria: Troops uncover IED, arrest terror logistics suspects in Borno
December 21, 2025
Nigerian troops operating under Operation HADIN KAI have discovered and neutralised an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and arrested two suspected terrorist logistics suppliers during separate operations in Borno State, the ...
- Thailand: Army seizes Cambodian IED after border encroachment detected
December 21, 2025
Thailand’s Second Army Area has disclosed details of the seizure of an improvised explosive device (IED) from a military area under Cambodian control, after what it described as an incursion ...
- Pakistan: Trains suspended after Balochistan attacks
December 20, 2025
Unidentified miscreants targeted the railway infrastructure near the Machh-Sibi section with an improvised explosive device (IED) on Friday evening, destroying a portion of the railway track and forcing authorities to ...
- Netherlands: 1,356 explosion attacks recorded this year, near last year’s total
December 20, 2025
The number of explosion attacks in the Netherlands remains exceptionally high this year, with police reporting 1,356 incidents so far—nearly matching the total for all of 2024, when 1,543 attacks ...
- US military launches strikes in Syria targeting Islamic State fighters after American deaths
December 20, 2025
The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to “eliminate” Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and ...
- Mince pies and brews: Defence Secretary thanks troops working over Christmas
December 19, 2025
Defence Secretary John Healey travelled to Merville Barracks in Colchester to visit troops who will be on duty over Christmas. Mr Healey spoke to soldiers from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal ...
- Colombia: At least 6 soldiers killed in drone and mortar attack in Cesar province
December 19, 2025
Guerrilla group ELN allegedly killed at least six soldiers and injured another 28 in a drone and mortar attack on a military base in northern Colombia. The attack took place ...
- Pakistan: Five militants killed in North Waziristan Boya army camp attack
December 19, 2025
An attack unfolded at the Boya military camp in the Datta Khel area in North Waziristan on Friday. The assailants used an explosive‑laden vehicle and suicide jackets to breach and ...
- UK: Explosive device found on Ynyslas beach is detonated
December 19, 2025
Experts were called in after an explosive device was discovered on a Mid Wales beach. The Explosive Ordance Disposal (EOD) unit were called in after reports of a potential device ...
- India: Government approves Rs 10cr to strengthen bomb detection capabilities
December 19, 2025
The state govt approved Rs 9.89 crore for strengthening bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS) capabilities across the state. The approval includes the purchase of 10 liquid explosive detectors worth Rs ...
- Ukraine strikes Russian shadow fleet tanker in Mediterranean for first time
December 19, 2025
In an unprecedented attack, Ukrainian aerial drones struck a Russian shadow fleet tanker in neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea, an official at Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) told POLITICO on ...
- Thailand: Urgent efforts to recover modified artillery shells as “Landmines” in Trat
December 19, 2025
On December 19, 2025, Rear Admiral Parat Rattanachaiphan, spokesperson for the Royal Thai Navy, condemned the actions of the Cambodian military for clandestinely placing modified landmines intended to kill Thai ...
- IAEA: New Publication on Protecting People and Environment from Radiation
December 18, 2025
The IAEA has released a new safety guide to help countries design and run radiation monitoring programmes to ensure people and environment are protected from harmful effects of ionizing radiation. Radiation ...
- Texas: Man arrested, charged in connection to multiple explosions in Austin
December 18, 2025
Austin police said at the beginning of August 2025, there were reports of repeated explosions in the areas of Jones Road and the Blunn Creek greenbelt near St. Edward’s University. ...
- Nevada: Behind the scenes look at Las Vegas bomb squad
December 18, 2025
The Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Bomb Squad gave 8 News Now a behind-the-scenes look at its operations, as its members serve and protect the community. The LVFR Bomb Squad unit, ...
- Northern Ireland: Co Down man denied bail as court hears details of cross-border terror plot to attack mosque
December 18, 2025
A man in Northern Ireland charged with terror offences linked to a cross-border police investigation into a planned attack on a Galway mosque has been denied bail. Connor Pollock, 38, ...
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