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An arson attack was behind the fire in the German city of Dusseldorf that killed a Turkish citizen among others last week, with the motive behind the incident remaining unclear, German prosecutors have unveiled. Last week’s fire and explosion, which Read More …
As violence continues to escalate in the Sahel region of Africa, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) has been intensifying its campaign of terror, particularly in the Central Sahel, which comprises Mali, Burkina Faso, and the Niger Republic. Newly released Read More …
Three Afghan nationals and three Spanish tourists were killed in central Afghanistan’s Bamyan province, the Taliban government has said, as it raised the death toll from the attack in a market. On Saturday, the government said that the bodies of Read More …
A gang of armed bandits, who identified themselves as ‘Ijaw Freedom Fighters’, on Sunday night attacked Imariogha community, near Okomu Oil Palm Plantation in Edo State, setting ablaze over eight vehicles. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the bandits Read More …
Two children were killed when an explosive device they found in a forest area in their village in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist-affected Bijapur district on Monday went off after one of them hit it with a stone without knowing that it was Read More …
A man died on Sunday after an unexploded ordnance (UXO), identified as a DK75 mortar shell, exploded while he attempted to dismantle it with an axe to sell as scrap metal. The incident occurred in Trang village, Phnom Dei commune Read More …
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said three of its fighters fell as martyrs and others were wounded as the result of an attack by an Islamic State suicide bomber. The attack happened in the town of Al-Shahil, Deir ez-Zor’s eastern Read More …
A 25-year-old woman was killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites went off in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday, the police said. Shanti Punem was collecting tendu leaves near Mallur village within the limits of the Gangaloor Read More …
The 2024 Ottawa Convention Conference chair Ly Thuch has endorsed Ukraine’s participation in the Siem Reap-Angkor Summit on a Mine-Free World in November, amid allegations of the Ukrainian military’s use of banned antipersonnel mines. This support is in response to Read More …
Two Malaysian women were among four individuals injured in a bomb blast in the city of Narathiwat last night (May 6). The Consul General of Malaysia in Songkhla Ahmad Fahmi Ahmad Sarkawi said both the women from Tumpat, Kelantan suffered Read More …
At least 12 people, including children, have been killed in twin bomb blasts that hit two camps for displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to government officials, the United Nations and an aid group. Friday’s explosions Read More …
The main bridge linking the Russian mainland to annexed Crimea was blown up in October 2022 using an improvised explosive device with a power equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, a Russian newspaper has reported. “The group members, at an Read More …
The Khuzdar city of Balochistan was rocked by a devastating explosion in the Chamrok area, killing three people on Friday. One of the deceased, Maulana Mengal was the provincial deputy emir of the JUI-F, as per the police, and was going Read More …
The Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) on Wednesday unveiled its monthly security assessment report, revealing that after a brief lull in March, militant attacks in Pakistan surged once more in April 2024, with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, particularly its Read More …
One person was killed, and 20 others injured, including two officials of Balochistan police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), in two explosions that took place in the coal field area of Duki district in northern Balochistan on Thursday. Officials said that Read More …
In the first four months of 2024, mine casualties increased by 92% compared to the same period in 2023, when there were 12 victims. According to Long Kosal, officials at the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) noted Read More …
On Wednesday, a security source reported that four workers affiliated with the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity sustained injuries in an explosion caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) in Al-Anbar Governorate, western Iraq. The source told Shafaq News Agency that Read More …
At least 13 people were killed after an Improvised Explosive Device went off in Elwak Town, Mandera County. The bomb was laden on a donkey cart when it went off killing the 13, witnesses and police said. This is the Read More …
A group of 17 individuals, including 14 children, lost their lives due to incidents involving explosive devices in Libya last year, according to a UN Mine Action Service report. The report, released on Sunday, documented 193 incidents resulting from explosive Read More …
A mine explosion occurred in the village of Marzili in Azerbaijan’s liberated district of Aghdam on Saturday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General’s Office, and the Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) said in a joint statement. The explosion resulted Read More …