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At least three police officers were killed after coming under fire during an armed clash with unidentified terrorists at a security checkpoint in Iran’s southeastern province of Kerman, authorities said. In a statement released Tuesday, the Quds Base of the Read More …
Thailand’s military said on Monday that it has stopped fuel shipments passing through a border checkpoint with Laos because of fears they were being diverted to Cambodia, with which it is fighting a fierce border conflict. The Thai and Cambodian Read More …
India’s anti-terrorism agency on Monday charged militant Islamist groups based in Pakistan and six individuals over an April attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir that killed 26 men, and triggered intense fighting between the two countries. The fighting, the worst Read More …
Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans of the elite CoBRA battalion were seriously injured in separate improvised explosive device (IED) blasts inside the Saranda forest in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Sunday. The incident took place during an anti-Maoist Read More …
Romania has confirmed its first case of leprosy in more than 40 years, with three other suspected cases currently under clinical and microbiological investigation, health minister Alexandru Rogobete announced on Thursday, December 11. All four individuals are women from Asia Read More …
A 24-year-old woman was injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites went off in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Friday. The incident took place around 3 pm on Thursday when the victim, identified as Lachhi Madvi, Read More …
The Thai army says it suspects English-speaking foreigners might be controlling Cambodian bomber drones that have targeted Thai forces during the ongoing border clashes. The 2nd Army Area, which is responsible for northeastern Thailand, said on its Facebook page on Thursday Read More …
In North Waziristan’s Mir Ali area, a government primary school was destroyed in an overnight explosion, affecting more than 600 students and disrupting education in the region. In the Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan, unknown armed assailants blew up Read More …
Cambodia requires at least $150 million to complete humanitarian demining operations and reach its goal of becoming mine-free by 2030, Senior Minister Ly Thuch, First Vice-President of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), told Khmer Times on Read More …
The U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) completed Mine Warfare Exercise (MINEX) 3JA 2025 off the coast of Southern Japan near Aburatsu, Nov. 12-26. MINEX 3JA is part of an annual series of exercises between the U.S. Navy Read More …
Thailand launched air strikes on its neighbour Cambodia today, the Thai army said, with both sides trading blame for the latest eruption of fighting on their disputed border which killed a Thai soldier. After Cambodian troops fired on Thai forces Read More …
Security forces foiled an attempt to target Jaffar Express by recovering a bomb planted on a railway track in Nasirabad district on Saturday. Police officials said unidentified individuals had planted an improvised explosive device (IED) on the track in the Read More …
Local sources reported on Saturday that two government military officers and two soldiers were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unidentified gunmen detonated in Hadramawt governorate, southeastern Yemen. The explosion struck a military vehicle while it was Read More …
The Twenty-Second Meeting of State Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (Ottawa Convention) held in Geneva, Switzerland on Dec. 1-5, officially approved Cambodia’s request for a third extension — covering the period 2026-2030 — to complete the clearance and Read More …
Mines and unexploded ordnance are an inevitable consequence of armed conflict. More than 60 countries worldwide, including Armenia, must clear their territories of these hazards. In total, over 43 million square meters in Armenia require demining. This situation stems from Read More …
Myanmar has for the second consecutive year recorded the world’s highest number of landmine casualties (2,029), which is double the total reported for the preceding year. Syria had the second highest number of casualties (1,015), followed by Afghanistan (624) and Read More …
Three cops, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI), were martyred in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeting a police vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan on Wednesday. The spokesperson for district police, Yaqoob Zulqarnain said, told Dawn that an Read More …
A surge of bomb threats across Western Visayas has exposed a worrying security gap: the region is being protected by only 61 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel, a number police officials concede is dangerously insufficient as incidents continue to escalate. Read More …
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have recovered seven petrol bombs, four crude bombs, and various bomb-making materials from a bush inside a park in the capital’s Mohammadpur area. The explosives were found abandoned during a special operation conducted Read More …
A bomb blast near Bhubaneswar’s KV-3 triggered a major probe as police and the NIA detained five suspects, recovered explosive materials, and heightened security amid rising concerns over local safety and inadequate patrolling. The Commissionerate Police-Bhubaneswar on Sunday detained five Read More …