Northern Ireland: Four suspected pipe bombs found in cemetery in Creggan

Four suspected pipe bombs have been found by police in a cemetery in Northern Ireland. Officers sealed off the City Cemetery in Creggan, Londonderry, on Tuesday following the discovery of a suspicious device. Police said all four devices were located Read More …

CTX – The Counter Terror Expo returns to ExCeL London on 17th & 18th May 2023

CTX – The Counter Terror Expo returns to ExCeL London on 17th & 18th May to unite professionals from industry, infrastructure, government and policing to explore the latest counter-terrorism technologies and solutions. The event encourages the development of new ideas Read More …

LARPing and Violent Extremism

Over the past half century, live action role play (LARP) has grown into a worldwide cultural phenomenon. It involves preplanned theater wherein participants portray characters in an imaginary environment and interact with one another in real time. This article will Read More …

Sweden: Police arrest 5 in anti-terror raids against Islamist suspects

Police in Sweden have arrested five people suspected of conspiracy to commit terrorist offences. Raids were carried out in the towns of Eskiltuna and Strängnäs, west of Stockholm; and Linköping, south of the capital, on Tuesday morning, with the Swedish Read More …

Afghanistan: Taliban Intelligence arrests perpetrator of Balkh explosions

The Intelligence Department has announced the arrest of one of the perpetrators involved in several deadly attacks in the Balkh province of Afghanistan, including the assassination of Mohammad Dawood Muzamal, governor of Balkh, on Sunday. The department aired the “confessions” Read More …

Northern Ireland: Bomb disposal teams at the scene of New IRA linked Derry search operation

Bomb disposal teams were at the scene of a police operation in Derry. The search operation was targeting “New IRA activity”, police said. It was carried out in the Letterkenny Road area of the city. Read more… Source: BelfastLive  

Northern Ireland: MI5 raises terror threat to ‘severe’ – meaning attack highly likely

The terror threat level in Northern Ireland has increased from “substantial” to “severe” meaning an attack is highly likely, the government has said. Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris told the House of Commons the decision was made by MI5, independent Read More …

Niger army entered Mali in ‘unprecedented’ hunt for ‘terrorists’: ministry

Niger’s defence ministry has said its troops killed 79 “terrorists” in operations last week that involved a foray into neighbouring Mali. Troops from the army’s anti-terrorist Almahaou operation began the search after they were attacked by an “armed terrorist group” Read More …

Northern Ireland: Police and ATO launch major counter terror search in Londonderry

Police and Ammunition Technical Officers are at the scene of a major counter terror search in the Letterkenny Road area of Derry. The Belfast Telegraph understands that an intelligence-led operation brought police to the area shortly before 9am. The bulk Read More …

Yemen war eight years on: Child killed or injured by explosives every two days in 2022

A child in Yemen was killed or injured by explosives every two days in 2022, new research has found, as the country enters its ninth consecutive year of conflict. Yemen is littered with landmines and unexploded ordinance such as mortars, Read More …

Pakistan’s forces recover huge cache of weapons from terrorists’ hideout in Balochistan

Anintelligence-based operation (IBO) was carried out in the general area of Rehman Kahul to clear a suspected hideout of terrorists, linked with recent terror incidents, including the planting of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Chaman and surrounding areas,a statement issued Read More …

Kenya: Multi-agency approach is silver bullet in fighting terrorism

As a regional power in fighting terrorism, Kenya always takes lead in developing compelling strategies to bolster the war on terror in the country and region. Kenya received international accolades for the successful “Operation Linda Nchi’’, military intervention in Somalia Read More …

MI5 received TWO separate warnings Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was buying dangerous chemicals months before attack – but didn’t act in time

MI5 chiefs failed to act on two separate warnings that the Manchester Arena attacker was buying bomb-making ingredients in the months before the outrage. The Mail on Sunday has learned that the agency received two ‘pieces of intelligence’ about the purchase Read More …

UK: Bomb-making and explosives guides found on mobile phone

A man has been convicted of terrorism offences after extremist material was found on his mobile phone. Mohammed Adnan Saleem, 22, of Montrose Avenue, Luton, had saved several banned documents, including a bomb-making manual and a file on explosives. He Read More …

Israel says suspect killed wearing a suicide vest following roadside bomb

Israeli security forces killed a man suspected of planting a roadside bomb that injured a man near the occupied West Bank this week, the military said on Wednesday, adding that the suspect’s potential ties to the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah Read More …

Pakistan: Two terrorists, including ‘KPO attack mastermind’, killed in overnight CTD operation

The Sindh police on Monday claimed to have killed the mastermind of the recent terrorist attack on the Karachi Police Office (KPO) along with his accomplice during an overnight operation. Two other suspects were also arrested in the operation that Read More …

India: In a crackdown on ISIS, central agency conducts searches in numerous locations in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra

An official claimed on Sunday that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) searched four places in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, and one location in Pune, Maharashtra, as part of an inquiry to uncover a plot by the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) to Read More …

Afghan Forces Arrest Man in Kabul with Magnetic IEDs

A man was arrested in Kabul’s capital city of Afghanistan with six magnetic Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), according to the Ministry of National Defense on Monday. The Ministry said that the apprehended capture was made possible based on the intelligence Read More …

Jammu and Kashmir: Security forces seize explosives, pistols from LeT’s Anantnag hideout

Security forces on Monday seized a large number of arms and ammunition including explosives in a raid at a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) hideout in Anantnag district, police said. This is the second hideout raided by security forces in 24 hours. On Read More …

Israel: IDF says troops arrest suspect behind attempted bus bombing in West Bank settlement

Israeli forces on Friday night detained a Palestinian man suspected of planting a makeshift bomb on a bus in a West Bank settlement a night earlier, the military said. In a joint statement with the Shin Bet security agency and Read More …