- Nigeria: IED Explosion Kills 1, Injures 2 In Kaduna
July 4, 2021
Kaduna State police command has confirmed that on Saturday there was an explosion at Shagari Close in Badarawa Kaduna as result of a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) concealed in ...
- California: Man accused of storing 16 tons of fireworks at home, including devices that later blew up and injured 17
July 4, 2021
A California man faces federal charges after allegedly transporting tons of explosives from out of state — including devices that later exploded in a police bomb disposal truck, injuring 17 ...
- Somalia: 10 killed in Al-Shabaab suicide bomb attack on tea shop in Mogadishu
July 3, 2021
A suicide bombing attack by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group on a crowded tea shop in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu killed 10 people and wounded dozens, the government said Saturday. The death toll ...
- Afghanistan: NDS forces thwart “terrorist attack” plan on Herat-Kabul flight
July 2, 2021
The Afghan National Directorate for Security (NDS) has thwarted a “terrorist attack” on a Herat-Kabul flight, the NDS said in a statement on Friday. According to the statement, the NDS personnel ...
- Pakistan: Three brothers killed in Tank ‘toy bomb’ explosion
July 2, 2021
Three brothers were killed in a toy bomb explosion in Tank’s Shah Alam Mehsud district Friday evening, according to the police. The children were playing in the neighbourhood. They found the ...
- Nagorno Karabakh: Russian sappers clear the area of explosive objects in the Martuni district
July 2, 2021
Engineering and sapper units of humanitarian demining of the Russian peacekeeping contingent continue to clear the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh from the danger of mines and explosive objects, the Russian Defense ...
- Massachusetts: Improvised Explosive Device Found on Porch in New Bedford, Police Say
July 2, 2021
An improvised explosive device was discovered and destroyed in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Friday, in an incident that brought out state police and Navy bomb technicians, police said. No one was hurt ...
- California: At least 17 hurt in explosion during LAPD detonation of illegal fireworks
July 1, 2021
A major explosion in South Los Angeles on Wednesday evening damaged buildings and injured at least 17 people, including police officers, as a bomb squad attempted to safely detonate improvised ...
- Iraq: Explosion at Baghdad’s Sadr City injures at least 15
July 1, 2021
An explosion in a crowded Baghdad market on Wednesday injured at least 15 people, Iraqi officials said. The military confirmed the blast went off in Sadr City, a mostly Shiite section ...
- CISA And FBI Launch Operation Flashpoint To Raise Awareness About How To Prevent Bomb Making
June 30, 2021
CLINTON, Miss. – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a new pilot program ...
- Laos to boost clearance capacity of unexploded bombs
June 30, 2021
Laos will continue to work with all development partners including the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to improve the quality of life of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) victims. This was the message ...
- U.S. Army hosts Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician hiring days around nation
June 30, 2021
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – The U.S. Army is hosting a series of in-service hiring days for enlisted Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians at installations across the nation from July through ...
- Turkish military destroys IEDs planted by PKK terrorists in N. Iraq
June 30, 2021
Turkish security forces have neutralized improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by the PKK terrorists in Operation Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt areas in northern Iraq, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. Turkish soldiers in ...
- New General Manager takes helm of NCI Agency
June 30, 2021
NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) General Manager Kevin J Scheid handed over leadership to Ludwig Decamps on 30 June 2021, marking the end of Scheid’s four-year tenure as ...
- Afghanistan: An explosion in the city of Jalalabad injured four civilians.
June 29, 2021
An explosion in the city of Jalalabad injured four civilians. Farid Khan, spokesman for the Nangarhar police chief, told RFE / RL that the blast took place at around 2pm on ...
- Nagorno Karabakh: U.S. Senators request funds for demining in Artsakh
June 29, 2021
A bipartisan letter led by Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Todd Young (R-IN) is calling for funds to support demining in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) ...
- Kenya: Cops kill al Shabaab, intercept guns and IED materials in Garissa
June 29, 2021
A suspected al Shabaab terrorist was on Monday killed as police intercepted a donkey carrying two AK 47 rifles, bomb making materials at the main border in Liboi, Garissa County. Officers ...
- EXU-1, Marines, and Energetics Manufacturing Department Team Up for Joint Forces
June 28, 2021
When the Navy’s Expeditionary Exploitation Unit-1 (EXU-1) teamed up with the U.S. Marine Corps’ Littoral Explosive Ordnance Neutralization (LEON) group for the first joint evolution with Marine explosive ordnance disposal ...
- UK: First elements of new Counter Terrorism Operations Centre in London unveiled
June 28, 2021
The first elements of the new Counter Terrorism Operations Centre (CTOC) in London have been unveiled. They include a cutting-edge counter terrorism operations suite which is now fully operational and a ...
- Boko Haram: 350,000 dead in Nigeria — UN
June 28, 2021
Insurgency-related conflicts claimed the lives of almost 350,000 lives in the North-eastern part of Nigeria up till the end 2020, a new report of the United Nations Develop Programme (UNDP) ...
- DR Congo imposes curfew in Beni after weekend bombings
June 28, 2021
People in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s city of Beni have woken up to a curfew on Monday after three bombs rocked the east of the country, with authorities ...
- Afghanistan: 1 Civilian Killed, 4 Wounded in Nangarhar Blast
June 28, 2021
At least one civilian was killed and four more were wounded–including two women–in a blast that targeted a vehicle in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Monday morning, local security ...
- Pakistan: Karachi Police Detains ‘Wanted Terrorist’ In Intelligence-Based Raid
June 28, 2021
The police in Ittehad Town has on Sunday claimed to have arrested in an intelligence-based raid an alleged notorious terrorist belonging to a banned outfit, ARY News reported. Senior Superintendent of ...
- Somalia: Roadside explosion leaves 1 soldier dead in Puntland
June 27, 2021
On Saturday, Jun. 26 one soldier died and another three were injured in a roadside explosion aiming at Puntland region’s security minister. The blast aimed at a convoy of Puntland State ...
- First drone attack in India marks new phase for Kashmir dispute
June 27, 2021
Indian officials said Sunday they suspect explosives-laden drones were used to attack an air base in the disputed region of Kashmir, calling it the first such incident of its kind ...
- Somalia: More than 20 killed in al-Shabaab attack in Mudug
June 27, 2021
At least twenty were on Sunday killed and more than thirty others injured after al-Shabaab attacked a military base in Somalia’s central region. According to officials and witnesses, Al-Shabaab used a ...
- Afghanistan: 13 people wounded in blast targeting bus in Parwan
June 27, 2021
At least 13 people were wounded after a roadside bomb struck a passenger bus in the Charikar, the capital of Parwan province, on Sunday, local officials said. Mohammad Sadiq Hashimi, the ...
- Car bomb kills three in Kurdish city of Afrin in northern Syria
June 26, 2021
28 Three people were reportedly killed when a car bomb exploded in the Kurdish city of Afrin in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo province. A source told Kurdistan 24 that ...
- 5 Iraqi policemen killed in roadside bombing in Daquq
June 26, 2021
Five members of the Iraqi federal police were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the northern province of Kirkuk, a source said. The incident took place on Friday, when ...
- NATO strengthens its partnership with Mauritania
June 25, 2021
NATO and Mauritania are further developing their long-standing partnership, by widening the scope of their political dialogue and practical cooperation. NATO civil and military officials have just completed a trip ...
- UK: Explosives arrest after substances found in Lincolnshire
June 25, 2021
A man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing explosive substances after the bomb squad were called and people evacuated from homes in Lincolnshire. A controlled explosion was carried out on ...
- Pakistan: Five FC soldiers martyred in Balochistan terrorist attack
June 25, 2021
At least five soldiers of Frontier Corps (FC) were martyred in Balochistan’s Sibi district on Friday after terrorists attacked a patrol of the security forces, said a statement issued by ...
- Defence and Security Accelerator Competition: Defence Innovation Loans
June 24, 2021
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) supported by Innovate UK Loans Ltd (Innovate UK) are working together to offer a new Defence funding competition: the Defence Innovation Loan, which currently ...
- Azerbaijan: Working group on mine clearance eyes mine risk awareness
June 24, 2021
The working group on clearing mines and unexploded ordnance on de-occupied territories has held its meeting and mainly focused on mine risk awareness steps, the local media reported on June ...
