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A viable device has been discovered during a security alert in County Londonderry, police have said. The alert happened in the Ballyquin Road area of Dungiven on Friday afternoon. Officers attended the scene and cordons were put in place following Read More …
Following an investigation by Thames Valley Police, a man has been sentenced for possessing an explosive substance in High Wycombe. At Aylesbury Crown Court yesterday (22/11), Jack Coleman, aged 19, of Amersham Hill, High Wycombe, was sentenced to a hospital Read More …
A clean-up is under way in Dublin city centre this morning following violent clashes between large groups of people and gardaí in Dublin last night. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said 34 people had been arrested and “many more arrests will Read More …
Polish authorities say that they have arrested and pressed charges against a 38-year-old Polish woman with Islamic extremist sympathies who planted an explosive device on a street in central Warsaw earlier this month. There were no injuries. Police said in Read More …
Bomb disposal experts scrambled to the scene of an attempted robbery in Sale after police believe suspects used an ‘explosive device’ to target a cash machine. The incident happened on Hereford Street at around 2.50am on Monday 20 November. Police, Read More …
Units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have received mine clearance equipment from Japan, including special vehicles and mine detectors. The aid package includes 40 special vehicles, 50 hand-held mine detectors, as well as containers and fire extinguishing liquid. Read More …
A discovery led to a number of premises being evacuated yesterday afternoon. Gardaí put a cordon in place after they were alerted to a suspicious device found in Clontarf, a coastal suburb around 5 km from the city centre. Members of Read More …
A World War II grenade found at a garden near the German presidential palace was safely detonated, local media reported on Friday. The old tank grenade was found in the morning hours during a construction work in a green area Read More …
The areas of Ukraine that border the Russian Federation, including Kyiv, Volyn, Rivne, and Zhytomyr, have been mined with a total of 500,000 mines Colonel Vladyslav Seleznov, former head of the press service of the Ukrainian General Staff, revealed this Read More …
Forty programmers demonstrated how AI-enabled robotic dogs could carry out potentially dangerous tasks that would otherwise be undertaken by Army bomb disposal experts at the Defence AI Centre (DAIC) sponsored Hackathon on 7-9 November. The hackers worked in five teams Read More …
Several hundred German police officers carried out searches across the country on Thursday targeting an Islamist association suspected of supporting the Iran-aligned Islamist movement Hezbollah, the Interior Ministry announced. The police operation targeted the Islamic Centre of Hamburg (IZH) and Read More …
Russia, Myanmar, and Ukraine have used antipersonnel landmines in the past year, and armed groups used them in at least five countries, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing Landmine Monitor 2023, the annual report about the international treaty to Read More …
A British man who spent two years with Islamic State in Syria and knew the British militant dubbed Jihadi John, has been jailed for carrying a weapon for terrorist purposes. Aine Davis was also sentenced at the Old Bailey for Read More …
Police are investigating after a pipe bomb was thrown at a property in the Watsons Road area of Newry on Sunday night. The incident happened at 7.20pm on Sunday night and the device has now been removed for further forensic Read More …
An explosion occurred outside a shop in the Makedonitissa area of Nicosia in the early hours of Friday morning. Police said the explosion occurred at around 2:30am and caused damage to the shop front as well as causing a fire Read More …
Eurojust and Europol have supported the competent authorities in Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Lithuania, Romania and Italy in an international operation against right-wing terrorism. During a joint action day, 5 suspects were apprehended and an additional 7 others interrogated across the Read More …
In late October, 50 kilogrammes of dynamite were stolen from a construction site near the Isohaara power plant in Kemi, southwest Lapland. The theft of explosives is relatively rare in Finland. However, no exact figures on this type of crime Read More …
Homes were evacuated after two grenades were found at a house following an arson attack. Two men, dressed in black, broke into a house before setting fire to it on Parkview Road, Croxteth, Liverpool at about 22:40 GMT on Sunday, Read More …
A serviceman has been killed in a residential complex in the village of Chaiky, Kyiv region, as a result of careless handling of ammunition, the press service of the National Police of Ukraine reports. “According to preliminary information, a 39-year-old Read More …
A Turkish soldier who was wounded in an explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) in eastern Türkiye succumbed to his injuries, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said Saturday. The explosion of the IED planted by members of the “separatist Read More …