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The dramatic CCTV footage of a terrorist attempt to blow-up prison officer Adrian Ismay was played in court at the trial of a west Belfast man accused of murdering the 52-year-old father of three. The non-jury, Belfast Crown Court trial Read More …
At least nine civilians including children were killed or wounded in separate Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosions in southeastern Ghazni and Paktika provinces. The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast in a statement said at least Read More …
Helmand officials have confirmed the death toll has risen to eight in the Lashkargah explosion inside an election campaign office in the city. Helmand governor’s media office said among those killed was the parliamentary election candidate, Saleh Mohammad Achakzai. The explosion Read More …
At least five Taliban militants were blown up by own explosives as they were placing an Improvised Explosive Device on a roadside in western Farah province of Afghanistan. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the incident has Read More …
A huge explosion and fires have hit an ammunition dump in Ukraine. Around 12,000 people were evacuated after a defence ministry ammo depot near the town of Ichnya, in the Chernigov region, blew up. There were two to three explosions a second, officials Read More …
An suicide bomber detonated his explosives at an election campaign rally of a parliamentary candidate in Nangarhar province on Tuesday afternoon. Local officials said the incident took place in Kama district where a candidate, Nasir Mohmand, was hosting dozens of Read More …
Two soldiers were injured in an IED explosion in Mohmand. They were in tehsil Safi and were part of the Bomb Disposal Unit. They were transported by helicopter to a trauma centre at 10am on October 1, Monday. One of them is Read More …
Three boys have been killed after triggering a landmine in eastern Ukraine. The boys, aged between 13 and 15, were from Horlivka, a city controlled by separatist forces. The town’s mayor, Ivan Prikhodko, wrote on social media that a 10-year-old Read More …
Seven soldiers and a civilian driver were killed in central Mali when their vehicle hit explosives in the latest attack in an area riven by jihadist violence, the defence ministry said Thursday. Wednesday’s “cowardly terrorist attack” took place between the Read More …
Eight soldiers were killed by a blast in northern Burkina Faso on Wednesday, in the latest blow to the poor Sahel country grappling with jihadism. “I have just learned that eight Burkinabe soldiers died after their vehicle drove over a Read More …
A local Taliban Commander was blown up by own explosives in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Military in East said Monday. According to a statement released by 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military, the incident took place Read More …
At least seven children were killed and five others were wounded in an IED explosion in Faryab province on Friday, local officials said Saturday. Ghulam Ali CID director for Sherentagab district police headquarters said the incident occurred in an area Read More …
Three militants of the banned terror outfit Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) were killed after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) accidentally went off with a huge explosion at the militant camp along Indo-Myanmar border. According to the spokesperson of Assam Rifles (AR), ‘A Read More …
An improvised explosive devise exploded in front of a drugstore in General Santos City on Sunday, injuring seven people. The incident was the third explosion in Region 12 or Soccsksargen region in less than a month, authorities said. Supt. Aldrin Read More …
A suicide bomber targeted a protest in Mohmand Dara district in Nangarhar province on Tuesday afternoon. Provincial governor’s spokesman said at least 19 people were killed and 57 others were wounded in the explosion. However, the provincial public health directorate Read More …
Egyptian security forces have reportedly detained a man suspected of trying to detonate a bomb near the US embassy in the capital, Cairo. A security source said the man was carrying a bag that exploded outside the compound in the Read More …
Suspected militants on Sunday detonated a second bomb in less than a week in a southern Philippine town, killing at least one and wounding 15. The homemade bomb went off near an internet cafe in Isulan town in Sultan Kudarat Read More …
Two rescue speedboats of the Philippine Army and Philippine Coast Guard were damaged when an improvised explosive device, set up by still unidentified suspects near the Coast Guard office, exploded at the Masbate City Port in Bapor Village, Masbate City, Read More …
Two explosions were reported in Kandahar city in Sunday night, wounding at least six policemen, officials said. One Afghan National Police (ANP) officer was wounded in the first IED explosion in Kandahar’s PD14. Local officials said the explosive device had Read More …
A suicide bomber has killed at least six people, including two children, after blowing up an explosives-packed rickshaw in Somalia’s capital city, Mogadishu. Houses, mosques and a school are reported to have collapsed during the attack, which the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab claimed it carried Read More …