Shin Bet Uncovers West Bank Hamas Cell That Planned Attacks in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem

The Shin Bet security service announced Sunday that it had uncovered a ring of Hamas operatives in Nablus that had been working since October to plan terror attacks in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere. The network was “exceptional in its scope and activities,” the Read More …

Airstrike destroys BIFF IED factory in Liguasan Marsh

A military airstrike on Sunday successfully destroyed the bomb-making factory of the IS-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Liguasan Marsh, an Army official said Monday. Capt. Arvin John Encinas, the Army’s 6th Infantry Division spokesman, said the operation also Read More …

Two men are arrested on suspicion of terror offences in Manchester

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after police raided a home in Manchester. Officers went to the property in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, following reports of suspicious items being found made shortly before 11.25am on Monday. Examinations at the Read More …

Afghanistan seizes truck carrying 10 tonnes of explosives from Pakistan

Afghan border police have seized a truck carrying 9,800 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, an ingredient of improvised explosives, at Torkham crossing with Pakistan, officials said Sunday. The explosives were placed under fruit boxes in a Pakistani lorry. The discovery was Read More …

98 kg explosives meant for Bangladesh outfit seized in Bengal

Murshidabad police arrested two youths on Thursday night and seized bomb making chemicals weighing 98 kg that was allegedly being sent to a banned militant outfit in Bangladesh. Manglu Khan and Sadekul Khan, both 30, were arrested from Nimtita in Read More …

CTD Balochistan recovers massive cache of weapons, explosives

The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) recovered a large cache of weapons and explosives during a raid in Quetta’s Kili Barat area late Sunday night. Security forces conducted a raid at a hide-out used as a weapon factory by Balochistan Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) Read More …

Police officers in foiled terror attack in Nairobi rewarded for exemplary work

29 officers who participated in interception of a powerful Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) in Merti, Isiolo have been rewarded for exemplary work. The VBIED and other explosives were to be used in attacking a court, Parliament and a Read More …

WMCTU: Man arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences

A Coventry man has been arrested today (Thursday 3 May) on suspicion of committing terrorism offences. The 20-year-old had previously been detained under the Explosives Act last Tuesday (24 April) before being released pending investigation. Today’s arrest is on suspicion Read More …

UNODC and ICAO sign partnership to strengthen airport security against crime, terrorist threats

The Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, and the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Fang Liu, signed a memorandum of understanding today to enhance the security of international air Read More …

Islamic State’s propaganda machine crippled in international operation

A “ground-breaking” international operation has crippled the propaganda machine of Islamic State, the European police agency has said. Europol said the two-day “takedown” action had “punched a big hole in the capability of IS to spread propaganda online and radicalise Read More …

Indonesia investigates reports top Islamic State commander killed

Indonesia is investigating reports from Islamic State supporters that the most senior Southeast Asian commander of the militant group was killed by U.S. air strikes in eastern Syria last week, counter-terrorism officials said. Online messages from Islamic State propagandists viewed Read More …

ISIS terrorist plotted bombing of local security service HQ in Russia, killed by FSB

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has killed an ISIS terrorist who plotted an attack on its local HQ and an administrative building in Stavropol. Agents recovered a firearm, IED components, and an ISIS flag from the scene. The FSB operatives Read More …

Leader of ISIS cell supporters blows himself up to avoid arrest in Russia

The leader of a terrorist cell, which had connections to the jihadist group Islamic State, has killed himself with an improvised explosive device in order to avoid being arrested, Russian law enforcement said. The cell was planning bomb and gun Read More …

Anti IED conference seeks solutions to the use of IEDs in Somalia

The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, has called for concerted efforts, to defeat the threat posed by Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) to security forces and civilian populations in Somalia. Read More …

Afghan SOF seizes and destroys more Taliban explosives in southern Afghanistan

Afghan Special Security Forces seized and destroyed 18 homemade IEDs and 46 pressure plate initiating devices during an offensive operation in Maiwand district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Mar. 31, 2018. This operation marked Afghan SOF’s third significant counter-IED action in the Read More …

UK: Russia threat and terror the focus of security review

Threats from Russia and organised crime are the focus of a new national security strategy for the UK. In what the prime minister has called a “fusion doctrine”, the plan will combine intelligence and the Army with economics and diplomacy Read More …

A man has been convicted of having explosives – Metropolitan Police

A man has been convicted of having explosives, weapons and ammunition following a joint investigation by police in Hertfordshire and Counter Terrorism officers from the Met and the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU). Warren Snedden, 44 (05.05.73) of Longcroft Read More …