Nigeria: Police arrest 3 kidnap suspects, recovers IEDs in Delta

The command spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe stated this while addressing newsmen on Monday in Warri. Edafe said that the suspects were arrested on Friday by police operatives attached to the Orerokpe Division in Okpe Local Government Area of the state. Read More …

Pakistan: CTD issues list of 127 most wanted militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has issued a list of the most wanted militants across the province with mostly from Swabi district. The list carries names of 127 militants with the highest head money of Rs8 million against Said Read More …

Israel: IDF seized Hamas weapons cache

Israel Defense Forces confiscated a large cache of weapons and supplies from Hamas terrorists amid the attack against Israel, the group announced Sunday. The weaponry removed from Hamas’ possession included rockets, grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and ammunition. The IDF pointed to Read More …

Nigeria: Troops seize explosive devices, clear terrorist camps in Imo, Anambra

Troops of “Operation UDO KA II’’ conducted clearance operations on terrorist camps in Imo and Anambra on Saturday. The troops arrested a suspected terrorist and also recovered improvised explosive device-making materials, motorcycles, stored foods, and other logistics items in the Read More …

Israel: IDF kills Hamas commander involved in deadly attacks as rocket fire on south resumes

The military on Sunday said it killed another commander in Hamas’s commando forces who led the murderous attacks on southern Israeli communities last weekend, as Israel moved to evacuate a border city ahead of the Israel Defense Forces’ expected ground Read More …

Somali army nabs senior al-Shabab leader in charge of explosives

Somali security forces have arrested a senior al-Shabab leader responsible for procuring arms and explosive devices used in carrying out multiple terror attacks across Somalia. The Ministry of Defense said Zakaria Kamal Sufi, who was tasked with procuring arms and Read More …

Pakistan: Car-bomb plot foiled in Quetta

The law-enforcement agencies on Wednesday foiled an attempt to carry out a car-bomb attack in the city and seized an explosives-laden car from a parking lot near a police station in the Eastern Bypass area. “Over 35 kilograms of high Read More …

Nigeria: Troops neutralise terrorist commander Ari Ghana, 5 others In Borno

Troops of 144 Battalion in collaboration with hybrid forces have neutralized a top Commander of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād (Boko Haram), Ari Ghana, and five of his bodyguards in the North East state of Borno. The notorious Commander Read More …

Who are the partners of the Beninese in the fight against terrorists?

Northern Benin faces the terrorist threat as jihadist groups based in the Sahel try to expand their actions to the Gulf of Guinea countries. To counter this threat and secure the borders, the Beninese army launched Operation Mirador in early Read More …

Nigeria: Police bust explosives, gun-making factory in Cross River State

Cross River State Police Command, yesterday, made a major breakthrough when it uncovered and busted an Improvised Explosive Device, IED/gun manufacturing factory at Osomba community in Akampka Local Government Area of the state. The operation, which lasted over four hours Read More …

India: ISIS using travelling trainers to teach IED-making in states

Terror organisation Islamic State (ISIS) has switched to a new tactic of recruiting “roaming trainers” to make improvised explosive device (IED). The trainers shift base continuously and impart explosive-making training to sleeper cells in different states. Questioning of arrested ISIS Read More …

Pakistan: Terrorist commander killed in Swat security operation

According to details, on Sept 7, 2023, based on a tip-off, Pakistan Army and the Counter Terrorism Department conducted a successful IBO in Fizagat area of Swat. Former Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat commander Naik Muhammad alias Niko alias Umar was killed during Read More …

India: 30 locations in Tamil Nadu & Telangana raided by NIA in ISIS recruitment case

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids at 30 locations in Tamil Nadu and Telangana on Saturday in an ISIS radicalization and recruitment case. NIA’s sleuths carried out these searches at 21 locations in Coimbatore, three in Chennai, and one Read More …

Mali, Niger, Burkina form Sahel alliance to tackle insurgency

The military leaders in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have signed an charter establishing defence alliance, ministerial delegations form the three Sahel countries. “Today, together with the Heads of State of Burkina Faso and Niger, I signed the Liptako-Gourma Charter Read More …

How ‘war on terror’ was fought and won in Southeast Asia – for now

In the early 2000s, the potential for terror attacks in Southeast Asia appeared dramatically different from today. Indonesia was rocked by the Christmas Eve church bombings on December 24, 2000, that killed 18 people. Just six days later, Metro Manila Read More …

Kenya: Four al-Shabab terror suspects killed in border raid

Kenyan security forces have killed four al-Shabab terror suspects and injured several others after raiding the militant group’s camp in Garissa County, northeast part of the country, the police confirmed Wednesday. The police said the security forces raided the al-Shabab hideout Read More …

Israel thwarts attempt to smuggle six explosives into northern Israel

Israeli forces this week thwarted an attempt to smuggle six IEDs into northern Israel, the IDF and Israel Police said in a joint statement Tuesday morning. “The forces located a bag containing the explosive devices, which were neutralized in the Read More …

India: NIA arrests two wanted criminals in Rajasthan terror conspiracy case

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said they have arrested two wanted absconding accused, including the kingpin, in the 2022 case relating to the seizure of explosives and IED material from Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh district which was part of the Read More …

Philippines: NPA arms stash found in Quezon

The police and military unearthed a New People’s Army arms cache in Sariaya, this province, on Friday, August 18. Quezon police director Police Col. Ledon Monte said the 1st Quezon Provincial Mobile Force Company (QPMFC) and the 59th Infantry Battalion Read More …