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- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 299
July 1, 2025
The IAEA team based at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been informed of a drone attack that damaged several vehicles near the site’s cooling pond last week, Director ...
- Iraq: UNAMI condemns ‘attack’ on Yazidi IDP Camp in Duhok
July 1, 2025
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) on Tuesday strongly condemned an explosion that struck the Darkar camp housing internally displaced Yazidis in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, calling ...
- Nigeria: ISWAP Terrorists Eliminated While Planting IEDs on Borno Highway
June 30, 2025
Troops of Sector 2, Operation Hadin Kai, have successfully neutralised two suspected fighters of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) who were attempting to plant Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) ...
- Northern Ireland: Man charged with possessing armour-plating explosive device granted bail
June 30, 2025
A Co Fermanagh man charged with possessing an armour-plating explosive device has been granted bail at the High Court. A judge ruled there were “exceptional circumstances’’ to permit Emmett Maguire to ...
- Iraq: Kirkuk Air Base and residential area hit by rocket attack
June 30, 2025
At least two rockets struck the Kirkuk Air Base and a nearby residential neighborhood in Kirkuk governorate on Monday night (June 30, 2025), according to security sources. One source reported that ...
- Colorado: ‘Large, homemade firecracker’ shuts down CSPD’s Falcon substation
June 30, 2025
Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) says that a “large, homemade firecracker” temporarily shut down parts of the Falcon substation on Sunday. According to CSPD, at approximately 11:30 a.m. on June 29, ...
- U.S. Navy and Marine Corps EOD Technicians Conduct Live Mine Countermeasure Operations During IWO-TO LIVE MINEX 2025
June 29, 2025
IWOTO, Japan – U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 participated in IWO-TO LIVE MINEX 2025, a bilateral mine countermeasures (MCM) ...
- Israel: IDF destroys IED site in northern Gaza
June 29, 2025
Troops from the Givati Brigade, under the command of the 162nd Division, are operating in the area of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip as part of Operation “Gideon’s Chariots”. In ...
- India: 500 detonators, 28 IEDs seized by security forces in Jharkhand
June 29, 2025
Security forces seized a huge quantity of explosives from a Maoist dump in a forest in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharswan district, a police officer said on Sunday. The explosives including 500 electronic detonators ...
- Syria: Emergency Minister, International Organizations discuss structure of National Mine Action Center
June 29, 2025
Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh discussed with representatives of international organizations and UN agencies the draft work plan for the National Mine Action Center in Syria and ...
- Israel: IDF sapper killed in IED explosion in Gaza Strip
June 29, 2025
The Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday that Sergeant Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld had been killed in action in the the Gaza Strip. According to reports, Rosenfeld was fatally wounded as an ...
- Ukraine on track to withdraw from Ottawa anti-personnel mines treaty
June 29, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had signed a decree to pull Ukraine out of the Ottawa Convention banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines as a necessary ...
- Pakistan: Two terrorists killed, two arrested in Balochistan’s Duki district
June 29, 2025
Security forces on Sunday killed two terrorists and apprehended two others during an operation in Balochistan’s Duki district, a statement from the military’s media wing said. The statement, issued by the ...
- Malian Army Kills Senior ISIS Leader In The Greater Sahara
June 29, 2025
The General Staff of the Malian Armed Forces announced on Saturday the killing of a prominent foreign leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), during a military ...
- Nigeria: IED explosion kills four, injures 21 others in Yobe State
June 28, 2025
A suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) killed four persons and injured 21 others on Friday, along the Katarko-Goniri Road in the Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. The victims, mostly from ...
- Thailand: Hidden explosives uncovered in sand at Patong Beach
June 28, 2025
Holidaymakers were left rattled as police scoured Phuket’s beaches to unearth a series of hidden explosive devices planted by suspects intent on chaos. Police confirmed yesterday evening, June 27, that the ...
- Iraq: Landmine explosion kills shepherd in Erbil Governorate
June 28, 2025
On Saturday, a young man was killed when a landmine exploded in Sidekan district, north of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region. According to the Erbil Directorate of Mine Affairs, ...
- Pakistan: 13 security personnel martyred in North Waziristan suicide bombing: ISPR
June 28, 2025
Thirteen security personnel were martyred in a suicide bombing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district on Saturday, carried out by Indian proxy Fitna-al-Khawarij, according to a statement from the Inter-Services ...
- DEVCOM CBC Supports Readiness of CBRN Equipment
June 27, 2025
CB Defense Today is an interview program featuring experts who discuss innovations, technologies, and partnerships relevant to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) and ...
- California: 3,300 pounds of illegal fireworks seized, 3 arrested in San Jose police raids
June 27, 2025
San Jose police arrested three men and seized more than 3,300 pounds of illegal fireworks in a series of recent raids, SJPD said Friday. San Jose residents David Benito-Carbajal, 31, Juan ...
- Maryland: Master Explosive Ordnance Disposal tech completes career at 20th CBRNE Command
June 27, 2025
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – A U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal master sergeant completed his more than two decades of Army service at the nation’s premier multifunctional Chemical, Biological, Radiological, ...
- Cambodia approaches completion of minefield survey along Thai border
June 27, 2025
Cambodia is nearing the completion of its most extensive minefield survey, which aims to uncover the full extent of explosive contamination along its borders with Thailand, areas heavily affected by ...
- IAEA: Update on Developments in Iran
June 27, 2025
Radiation levels in the Gulf region remain normal following the 12-day conflict that severely damaged several nuclear facilities in Iran, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency ...
- Jersey: Royal Navy divers remove “high-explosive projectile” from local waters
June 26, 2025
Royal Navy divers have helped dispose of a “high-explosive projectile” lurking in local waters. The “historic” live ordnance was initially spotted by a civilian diver in the sea at Bouley ...
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