Civilians face increasing harm from deadly explosive weapons

Dr Stacey Pizzino from UQ’s School of Public Health collated information on 105,931 casualties in 17 countries and regions across Asia, Europe, Africa and South America. “This is the first pooled casualty analysis globally using previously untapped data sources,” Dr Read More …

UK: WWI shell defused in Hungerford

A suspected bomb uncovered on a building site in Hungerford has been confirmed as a WWI shell. Police and bomb disposal experts attended the site in Charnham Street and carried out a controlled explosion. A Thames Valley Police spokesperson said: Read More …

Northern Ireland: Fresh appeal for information over couple killed in car bomb in 1990

A fresh appeal for information has been made over the killing of a former police officer and his wife by a car bomb in 1990. James Sefton, 65, and his wife Ellen, 66, were killed when a booby trap device Read More …

Ukraine: Explosion during ammunition demonstration injures two students at Dnipro school

An explosion occurred at a school in the city of Dnipro on Feb. 23 during a classroom demonstration of ammunition, injuring two children, according to regional police. Authorities said the incident happened while ammunition samples were being shown to students, Read More …

Syria, Ukraine discuss cooperation on landmine clearance

Syria’s Minister of Emergency Management and Disaster Response, Raed al-Saleh, met a Ukrainian delegation in Damascus to discuss expanding cooperation on clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), the ministry said. The Ukrainian delegation was led by Ihor Bezkrovainyi, director of Read More …

Ukraine: Explosion at police station in Dnipro classified as terrorist act

An explosion at a police station in Dnipro has been classified as a terrorist act. According to Ukrinform, this was reported on Telegram by the Office of the Prosecutor General. At around 20:50 on February 23, an improvised explosive device Read More …

Poland prepares to lay mines to defend eastern borders from Russian threat

Poland on Friday formally withdrew from the Ottawa Treaty, an international convention that bans anti-personnel landmines, paving the way for their deployment along its eastern borders. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the country aimed to be able to mine Read More …

Ukraine: Explosion in Mykolaiv injures seven police officers, two in critical condition

An explosion occurred at a gas station in Mykolaiv that was not in operation. Seven officers from the Patrol Police Department were injured; they had come to change shifts and parked their vehicles at the station. This was reported by Read More …

Ukraine: Police officer killed, 24 people injured in terrorist attack in Lviv

23-year-old police officer was killed and 24 people were injured in a terrorist attack in Lviv in the early hours of Sunday, February 22. The Lviv regional police announced this on Facebook. “At around 00:30 today, a report was received Read More …

Scotland: Police confirm controlled explosion carried out at Scatsta Airport

A controlled explosion of a suspected ordnance has been carried out near the former Scatsta Airport site. Police Scotland confirmed a team of experts carried out the explosion on Thursday, following a discovery at the site on Monday. Officers set Read More …

UK: Man arrested after explosives found at house in Derbyshire village

Officers were called to a house in Church Street, Bonsall, on Valentine’s day, Saturday, February 14, following concerns about items at the address. Some explosives were found at the address but they have since been removed. A man in his Read More …

Ukraine: Explosion at military enlistment office declared terrorist attack

An explosion at a military enlistment office in the city of Kolomyia, in western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, has been classified as a terrorist attack, the regional prosecutor’s office said. The news comes amid a rise in attacks on vehicles belonging to Read More …

Italy: Rail sabotage – old tactics, new radical ties

Low-cost, high-impact sabotage: targeting signaling systems stops trains without touching the rolling stock. According to Roberto Setola, director of the Master’s program in Homeland Security at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, the method is a classic of the anarchist Read More …

48th CES EOD holds demonstration for local community

RAF FELTWELL, England — The 48th Civil Engineering Squadron explosive ordnance disposal shop hosted a demonstration for the Feltwell Parish Council and local community members at RAF Feltwell, England on Feb. 13. The primary mission of the EOD team is Read More …

UK: Man arrested after ‘significant number of illegal weapons’ found in house in Abergwynfi

A man has been arrested after a report of a ‘significant number of illegal weapons’ discovered at a property in Abergwynfi, Neath Port Talbot. Officers attended an address on Commercial Street, following a report at around 09:30pm on Sunday 15, Read More …

Ukraine: Car explosion in Odesa Injures one person

In the morning of February 16, 2026, on Akademika Korovла Street in Odesa, there was an explosion of a passenger car, injuring one person. According to preliminary data, a 56-year-old man was injured. He was hospitalized for medical treatment. Investigators, Read More …

Northern Ireland: Man accused of storing explosives in Belfast home not ideologically driven or linked to terrorism

A man accused of storing explosives in his south Belfast home is not ideologically driven or linked to terrorism, the High Court heard today. Dangerous chemicals and an improvised grenade were discovered during a major security alert at Radoslaw Kuc’s Read More …

Ukraine: State Emergency Service destroyed Russian Kh-101 missile warhead

In the Pervomaisk district of the Mykolaiv region, rescuers from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) destroyed the warhead of a Russian Kh-101 missile. This was reported by the Main Directorate of the SES in the Mykolaiv region on Read More …

UK: Man who booby-trapped Barnsley drug den with ‘Home Alone’ explosives and flamethrower jailed

A man who rigged Barnsley properties with improvised explosive devices and a homemade flamethrower to protect a large-scale drugs operation has been jailed. Police raided three properties on Brierley Road in Barnsley on May 8, 2024, after intercepting a delivery Read More …