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The Norwegian People Aid (NPA) has granted the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) $2.1 million for demining. The funds will be used to clear 1,600 hectares of landmine-contaminated areas in the northwestern provinces of Banteay Meanchey, Oddar Meanchey and Preah Read More …
A total of 55 deminers from three different entities have completed two recent training courses designed to enhance their abilities to work with dogs in the course of their duties. The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) announced on August 10 Read More …
A senior commander of the Security Belt Forces (SBF), a paramilitary force based in southern Yemen, was killed in an attack by al-Qaeda militants in the southern province of Abyan on Thursday, a government official said. Abdul-Latif Al-Sayed, commander of Read More …
The UN Development Program (UNDP) in Yemen sparked anger among Yemeni governmental and human rights activists after handing over $750,000 worth of demining equipment and devices to the Houthis in al-Hodeida. Yemeni Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani expressed his surprise at Read More …
Kabul’s Taliban authorities said on Wednesday that dozens of Dai’sh militants from Pakistan have been killed or captured in Afghanistan in the past year. The statement came days after Islamabad blamed Afghans for involvement in suicide attacks on its territory. Read More …
At least seven people, including a newly elected Union Council chairman, were killed in an explosion in Panjgur district on Monday evening, officials said. Mohammad Ishaq, the Balgatar UC chairman, was returning to his village along with six other people Read More …
Police are looking for those responsible for the bombings which took place in Narathiwat’s Sungai Kolok district and Yala’s Muang district on Saturday night. No one was hurt by the blast in Sungai Kolok, but the explosion in Yala injured Read More …
A suicide bomber apparently detonated his explosives-laden vehicle prematurely in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban on Monday, killing a married couple in a nearby car, officials said. A local administration official, Rehmant Ullah, said the bombing happened in Read More …
On Sunday (August 6), a large cache of explosives was recovered by the police near Radipur village in the Rampurhat subdivision in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. As per reports, the cops raided an abandoned house based on a Read More …
The Taliban said they were ready to war with Iran over a water dispute and sent thousands of troops and hundreds of suicide bombers to the area, according to a person familiar with the matter. This came amid a rising Read More …
Intense firing was reported from Manipur on Sunday, a day after five persons lost their lives in three separate incidents while 15 abandoned houses were torched. According to reports reaching here, violence erupted in two adjoining villages on the border Read More …
CMAC and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) will hold a signing ceremony on the “Cooperation Agreement on Humanitarian Mine Action Project in Cambodia” between Heng Ratana, Royal Government Delegate in charge of the Director General of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre, Read More …
Two soldiers embraced martyrdom and three others sustained injuries in a militant attack in Tirah valley of district Khyber. Though there was no official word about the incident till filing of this report, local sources said that a mobile bomb Read More …
Counter-terrorism squad Detachment 88 has arrested two suspected militants wanted for their role in last year’s suicide bombing attack at a police station in Bandung, West Java, a spokesman said on Thursday. The suspects, whose full identities aren’t disclosed, were Read More …
A bomb blast in southeastern Myanmar killed one person and wounded 12 others on Monday, an official said. The blast from a vehicle detonated near Thanlwin bridge checkpoint at around 6:50 am local time (0020 GMT), a government official from Read More …
The United States has designated 20 individuals and 29 companies as being operatives and facilitators for the terror groups, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qa’ida in the Indian Ocean state of Maldives. The announcement by the US Read More …
Bangladesh and India are worried about the disturbing news of armed insurgents infiltrating into restive Mizoram state of northeast India as refugees. Both Delhi and Dhaka are sharing intelligence reports, browsing local newspapers, and getting updates from local sources in Read More …
Türkiye’s Naval Forces Command detected at least 28 unexploded artillery shells in the Black Sea, local authorities in Istanbul said Monday. Investigations conducted by the underwater defense forces revealed that the objects were unexploded artillery shells, the governor’s office said Read More …
At least 44 people were killed while over 100 were wounded in a suicide blast at a Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) workers’ convention in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Bajaur district on Sunday. The explosion occurred when more than 400 JUI-F members Read More …
A nine-year-old boy was injured in a crude bomb explosion in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Sunday, police said. The boy, a class 4 student was injured in Basirhat block 2 when he mistook a crude bomb lying Read More …