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The continued use of the improvised explosive device (IED) by New People’s Army terrorists show that “they don’t value human rights”, a military official said Monday. Lt. Col. Jo-ar Herrera, commander of the 53rd Infantry Battalion (IB), issued the statement Read More …
A major tragedy was averted on Thursday when the security forces detected an improvised explosive device (IED) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Police said security forces, including the counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles and local police recovered an IED on the Read More …
The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) after an intelligence information recovered a remote-controlled bomb planted on a roadside in Janikhel area of Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and neutralised the explosive. The bomb was planted for a big terror activity by Read More …
Security personnel have detected and defused 18 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) suspected to have been laid by members of the banned CPI (Maoist) outfit in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, police said on Friday. During a search operation, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel detected Read More …
The Deputy Secretary General spoke to the meeting of world leaders and representatives from international organisations about the security challenges of COVID-19 and NATO’s response to the pandemic. Mr. Geoană praised Jordan as a leader in countering violent extremism and Read More …
The United Kingdom (UK) and Kenya Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) training programme has returned to the Humanitarian Peace Support School (HPSS) in Nairobi following a five-month disruption due to Covid-19. British High Commissioner to Kenya Jane Marriott visited the UK-supported Read More …
A major tragedy was averted after security forces recovered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near Tujan village in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday (August 16) night. The IED was planted beneath a bridge. IGP Kashmir Vijay kumar Read More …
U.S. Navy researchers are asking industry for enabling technologies to neutralize low-observable underwater explosives from over-the-horizon ranges and undetected by enemy forces. Officials of the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Va., issued an updated solicitation (N00014-20-S-B003) on Friday for Read More …
The United States’s military involvement in Burkina Faso is opaque. Even diplomats and military officials from other countries who are based in Burkina Faso told the Mail & Guardian that they have little knowledge of what exactly is happening on Read More …
Government forces conducting security patrol in the hinterlands of Sultan Kudarat province found improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in a suspected communist New People’s Army (NPA) lair on Saturday. Lt. Col. Rommel Valencia, commander of the Army’s 7th Infantry Battalion, said Read More …
State forces on Tuesday detected and diffused an improvised explosive device (IED) on Srinagar-Baramulla road in north Kashmir, police said. Army personnel found the IED by the roadside at Hamrey in Pattan area of Baramulla district around 5 am, a Read More …
The Afghan forces thwarted militants bid to detonate four improvised explosive devices in Kabul, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said. According to a statement released by MoD, the militants had planted the bombs in the vicinity of Mosahi and Qarabagh Read More …
The BSF is conducting a field trial of hand-held ground penetrating radar to detect tunnels, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and landmines along the Indo-Pak border. When deployed, the state-of-the-art equipment will help the BSF in curbing smuggling of arms and Read More …
At Northern Strike (NS), on July 22, 2020, the Illinois National Guard, 1544th Transportation Company (TC) conducted Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IED) training at Camp Grayling, Michigan, a part of Michigan’s National All Domain Warfighting Center. NS is designed to train Read More …
In 1934, American psychologist Abraham Maslow published his ‘hierarchy of needs’. During his lifetime he lived through the Great War, the Spanish Influenza, which killed roughly 50 million people globally, the crash of stock markets in 1929, the Great Depression Read More …
The Union home ministry has given the approval for field trials of hi-tech ground-penetrating radar (GPR) that will help detect tunnels, anti-tank mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on the western border with Pakistan, a development that comes amid India’s Read More …
A black and furry Labrador Retriever lets out a deep vibrating growl from the depth of its chest as members of an elite unit within the Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) take it through several military drills. This gentle beast gifted Read More …
The Colombian army has equipped six new ambulances to care for mine and explosive detection dogs in different parts of the country, especially where illegal groups have illicit crops. Colonel Jose Antonio Pérez, Chief of the National Center against Explosive Read More …
The Kabul Police forces seized a remote-controlled bomb and thwarted militants’ bid to carry out another explosion in the city. The Kabul Police Headquarters in a statement said the Kabul Police forces discovered and seized the remote-controlled bomb during an Read More …
FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii – U.S. Army Pacific welcomed a new senior enlisted leader at USARPAC’s change of responsibility ceremony at Historic Palm Circle, Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Command Sgt. Maj. Scott A. Brzak took responsibility as USARPAC’s Command Sergeant Major from Read More …