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- Strengthening Security Through Training: NATO C-IED Mobile Training Team in Kuwait
June 4, 2025
From 1 to 4 June 2025, the NATO Istanbul Cooperation Initiative Regional Centre (NIRC) in Kuwait City hosted a Mobile Training Team (MTT) from Allied Joint Force Command Naples. The ...
- New York: Man charged with supplying chemicals in Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing
June 4, 2025
A Washington man is charged with providing large amounts of chemicals used in a car bomb outside a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic last month, federal authorities said Wednesday. Daniel Jongyon ...
- India: 4 injured in blast of improvised hand grenade in Pilibhit
June 4, 2025
Four members of a family, including an elderly woman, sustained injuries in a blast caused by an improvised handmade grenade inside a house in Gahluiya village of Pilibhit on Wednesday. The ...
- Premier US military CBRNE command supports Exercise Immediate Response
June 4, 2025
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – Soldiers from the U.S. military’s premier Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) formation honed their ability to enable large-scale multinational operations during Exercise Immediate Response ...
- Landmines imperil the EU’s moral compass
June 4, 2025
The European Union has long stood at the forefront of the fight against anti-personnel landmines. Its early and active support for the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty reflected a shared European ...
- Trump signs travel ban on nationals from 12 countries, restrictions on 7 more
June 4, 2025
President Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation barring travelers and immigrants from a dozen countries and restricting the entry of nationals of another seven nations, citing concerns about national security. Mr. ...
- Sri Lanka: Japan extends its support for humanitarian demining activities in North – East
June 4, 2025
Charge d’ Affaires ad interim of Japan to Sri Lanka Kamoshida Naoaki signed grant contracts for two demining projects with the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) and the HALO Trust (HALO) ...
- Maryland: Thurmont man facing charges after allegedly setting off explosive devices in public
June 4, 2025
A Thurmont man on Monday was arrested after he allegedly set off multiple homemade explosive devices in public, including in a roadway and near a playground where five children were ...
- Michigan: Chinese Nationals Charged with Conspiracy and Smuggling a Dangerous Biological Pathogen into the U.S.
June 4, 2025
DETROIT – Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, ...
- Nigeria: New terrorist group, Mahmuda, attacks Kwara community
June 4, 2025
A terrorist group called Mahmuda has carried out an attack on Karonji/Duruma village in the Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State. Sources told SaharaReporters that the insurgents invaded the community ...
- Poland: Containers with arms, ammunition found near Ukraine border
June 4, 2025
Containers with ammunition and weapons were found in a Polish village near the Ukrainian border, possibly stocks of a private company meant for delivery to Ukraine, Polish authorities said on Wednesday. ...
- UK: Bomb squad carry out controlled explosion after high school evacuated
June 4, 2025
The bomb squad has carried out a controlled explosion after a ‘potentially harmful chemical’ was discovered at a high school yesterday (Tuesday). Pupils were evacuated from Denbigh High School on ...
- Germany: Medical CBRN Training for Ukrainian Medical Personnel
June 4, 2025
This training is part of the European support mission EUMAM UA. The objective is to prepare medical personnel for casualty care under CBRN conditions. The training is conducted under German responsibility ...
- UK to stockpile military medical supplies in case of nuclear attack
June 4, 2025
The UK will stockpile military medical supplies to prepare for a possible nuclear attack under plans to ramp up its defences. Medicines and healthcare equipment designed to treat Armed Forces personnel ...
- Uganda: Two people die before a suspected explosive attack in Kampala
June 3, 2025
Uganda military authorities said two people died before executing a suspected explosive attack near a Catholic shrine in the capital, Kampala. The military said in a statement Tuesday they “intercepted and ...
- Europol coordinates operation against terrorist content online targeting minors
June 3, 2025
On 27 May, Europol coordinated a Referral Action Day (RAD) on minors’ exploitation and radicalisation online. More than 2 000 links pointing to jihadist and right-wing violent extremist and terrorist propaganda ...
- Pakistan: Four police personnel injured as terrorists attack two police stations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
June 3, 2025
Terrorist attacks on two police stations were thwarted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur and Bannu districts, injuring four police personnel, police said on Tuesday. According to a statement by KP Inspector General ...
- Nigeria: At least 20 people killed in attacks on communities in Benue state
June 3, 2025
At least 20 people have been killed during simultaneous attacks by unidentified gunmen on several communities in Nigeria’s north-central Benue state, police said on Tuesday. The attacks occurred late Sunday in ...
- Ukraine claims to have damaged Russia’s bridge to annexed Crimea
June 3, 2025
Ukraine’s SBU security service has said it has hit the road and rail bridge linking Russia and Ukraine’s annexed Crimean peninsula below the water level with explosives, in its third ...
- Israel: Three soldiers killed, two injured in a minefield explosion in Gaza
June 3, 2025
Three Israeli soldiers from the Givati Brigade were killed Monday in a deadly minefield explosion during an IDF ground operation in Jabaliya, northern Gaza. The soldiers were identified as Sergeant ...
- 414th Chemical Company earns 2025 Sibert Award for excellence in CBRN operations
June 2, 2025
During Chemical Corps Regimental Week, the U.S. Army Reserve’s 414th Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Company, based in Orangeburg, South Carolina, received the 2025 Maj. Gen. William L. Sibert Award ...
- Germany: World War II bombs found in Cologne-Deutz
June 2, 2025
During exploratory work on Monday, June 2, 2025, three unexploded bombs from the Second World War were found in Cologne-Deutz in the area of the Deutzer shipyard. These are two American ...
- North Carolina: Suspicious incendiary device found near Blue Ridge Parkway prompts evacuation
June 2, 2025
Rangers with the National Park Service (NPS) responded to a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina, on Sunday after receiving reports of a suspicious item in ...
- Mali army foils attempted infiltration in Timbuktu
June 2, 2025
The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) have announced that they successfully repelled an attempted infiltration targeting their military base in the northern city of Timbuktu. According to the General Staff of the ...
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