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- UK: Man’s homemade explosives led to street evacuation
July 9, 2025
A man has been jailed for throwing acid and making explosives in a “home laboratory” inside his flat in Derbyshire over the course of 15 years. Police cordoned off streets and ...
- Pakistan: Bomb defused in Lakki Marwat
July 9, 2025
The police on Tuesday defused a bomb in the Michenkhel area of Lakki Marwat district. An official said that local residents spotted a suspected object along a dirt track in the ...
- Canada to ‘align’ with U.S. airport screening rules as TSA drops shoes-off policy
July 9, 2025
Ottawa says it will work to align its flight security regulations with those in the U.S. after Washington dropped a rule that required passengers to remove their shoes during security ...
- Finland and Lithuania set to produce anti-personnel mines
July 9, 2025
Lithuania and Finland look set to start domestic production of anti-personnel landmines next year to supply themselves and Ukraine because of what they see as the military threat from Russia, ...
- Kenya: Seven police officers injured in Mandera IED attack
July 9, 2025
Seven police officers were injured early Tuesday morning after their patrol vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED) along the Gadudia-Laga Road in Mandera East, near the Kenya-Somalia ...
- Northern Ireland: Explosive device seized by police in south Armagh
July 9, 2025
An explosive device and a number of other items have been seized by police in south Armagh. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said officers recovered and made safe ...
- Pakistan: One dead, three children injured in KP’s Bannu after quadcopter attacks by militants
July 9, 2025
One person was killed while three children were injured after militants carried out two quadcopter attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Wednesday, according to police. The incident comes after reports ...
- Kenya: At least 31 dead, 532 arrested in Kenya’s antigovernment protests
July 9, 2025
The death toll from antigovernment protests in Kenya has surged to at least 31 people, the country’s human rights commission said, with at least 107 others wounded during the nationwide ...
- Latest Sea Breeze Exercise Focuses on Mines in the Black Sea
July 8, 2025
For the third year in a row, the U.S. and partner nations, including Ukraine, have their eyes on the Black Sea’s future and how to deal with the thousands of ...
- UN peacekeeping EOD international training program kicks off in China
July 8, 2025
The UN peacekeeping explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) international training program, jointly organized by the Peacekeeping Affairs Center of China’s Ministry of National Defense and the Chinese PLA Army Engineering University, ...
- Sahel militants turn civilian drones into deadly weapons
July 8, 2025
Terror groups are increasingly using new tactics, notably armed suicide or kamikaze drones, according to a government statement released following several attacks on cities in western Mali on 1 July. The ...
- Israel: 5 IDF soldiers killed, 14 wounded in IED attack in northern Gaza
July 8, 2025
The Israel Defense Forces named four soldiers had been killed fighting in the northern Gaza Strip Beit Hanoun on Monday, with another also killed in the same incident. Fourteen soldiers were ...
- Philippines: WW2 bombs, Japanese grenade found at Philippine General Hospital
July 7, 2025
Two vintage World War II bombs and a Japanese grenade have been unearthed on the ground floor of Salcedo Hall at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) on ...
- Vietnam: Three cluster bombs safely detonated in Quang Tri province
July 7, 2025
A mobile explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team from NPA/RENEW successfully neutralised three dangerous cluster munitions found in residential areas in the central province of Quang Tri, following reports from local ...
- Mexico: Criminal groups are using drone bombings to displace indigenous communities in Northwest
July 7, 2025
In recent months, more than a dozen Indigenous communities in northwest Mexico have been violently displaced from their lands by criminal organizations. Drawn by the promise of gold and other valuable ...
- Pakistan: Three officers injured in blast on highway police vehicle in Balochistan’s Nasirabad
July 7, 2025
Three cops were injured in an attack on a highway police vehicle in Balochistan’s Nasirabad District on Monday, an official said. Highway Police’s Senior Superintendent of Police Khadim Husain said that ...
- Pentagon Allocates $130 Million in 2026 for Syrian Democratic Forces Operations
July 7, 2025
The U.S. Department of Defense has designated $130 million in its Fiscal Year 2026 budget under the Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund (CTEF) to support vetted Syrian groups and individuals, ...
- Israel: IDF strikes targets in Yemen, Houthis launch 2 ballistic missiles
July 7, 2025
The Israel Defense Forces said that it had struck Houthi targets overnight in the Yemeni coastal cities of Hodeidah, Ras Issa, and al-Salif; hours later, the Iran-backed terror group launched ...
- Turkey: 12 soldiers die in methane gas incident in northern Iraq
July 7, 2025
Twelve Turkish soldiers died after being exposed to methane gas during a search operation in northern Iraq, the Turkish National Defense Ministry reported on Monday. The soldiers were carrying out a ...
- Thailand: Police officer shot in Yala, two rangers injured by explosion in Narathiwat
July 6, 2025
A traffic police officer was shot dead by southern insurgents as he was directing traffic in front of a convenience store in Krong Pinang district of Yala province on Saturday ...
- Niger: 11 terrorists killed in the Tillabery and Dosso regions
July 6, 2025
The Nigerien army announced on Sunday that it had killed at least 11 terrorists in response to two coordinated attacks carried out on Wednesday and Thursday in the Tillabery and ...
- Ireland: Gardaí probe if Aughinish bomb linked to Russian attack on Ukraine
July 6, 2025
Gardaí are investigating if a “viable” bomb found near a Russian-owned alumina refinery in Limerick last Friday had been a direct reaction to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. On Friday afternoon ...
- Ukraine: Bomb disposal experts destroy Russian drone armed with two mines in Sumy region
July 6, 2025
In the Sumy region, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) specialists destroyed the warhead of a Russian drone equipped with fragmentation mines. The Sumy Regional Police reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform. ...
- Red Sea: Crew abandons cargo ship after drone, grenade attack
July 6, 2025
Crew members onboard a Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned ship that was set ablaze in an attack in the Red Sea have abandoned the vessel and were rescued, according to a British maritime ...
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