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The U.N. World Food Programme said on Wednesday it had suspended flights to the northwestern Burkina Faso town of Solle after an explosion near a helicopter it chartered injured a crew member and a government official. The WFP is trying Read More …
Three soldiers have been killed in a drone attack in south-west Colombia, which authorities have blamed on a dissident rebel group. The devices dropped explosives on members of Colombia’s navy and army, who were manning a checkpoint on the Naya Read More …
Terrorists on Wednesday blew up a gas pipeline in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district, resulting in a suspension of gas supply to Punjab, police said. Lakki Marwat police spokesperson Aamir Khan told Dawn.com that the terrorists detonated explosives planted on Read More …
The terrorists had ambushed Nigerian troops of 145 Battalion, Damasak, located in Kareto, detonating an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and immediately following it up with gunfire. The Boko Haram fighters, however, got caught up in the detonated IED as several Read More …
Terrorists launched a quadcopter drone attack on a Frontier Corps (FC) check post in the Takhti Khel area of Bannu, injuring four personnel on Tuesday. Just a few days earlier, the same post came under a drone strike that killed Read More …
The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) has strongly rejected accusations from Thailand that Cambodia planted new landmines near the border, calling the claims “unsubstantiated” and urging restraint to maintain the recently agreed ceasefire. In a statement issued Read More …
A blast targeted the Jaffar Express on Sunday near Spezand in Dasht Tehsil of Mastung district, damaging its locomotive and several coaches, officials confirmed. According to Levies authorities, an explosive device planted on the railway track went off as the Read More …
Unidentified terrorists blew up two more bridges on Azam Warsak Road in Birmal tehsil of Lower South Waziristan district on Saturday. It was the third such incident in the past 24 hours as the security situation further deteriorated in the Read More …
At least two Ethiopian soldiers were killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their convoy in Baidoa town, about 250km south-west of Mogadishu. The blast occurred on the road to Baidoa airport, targeting a convoy of Read More …
Six Lebanese army soldiers were killed and others wounded in an explosion while inspecting a weapons depot in Majdal Zoun and Wadi Zibqin, Tyre. The victims include four members from the 5th Infantry Brigade and two from the Engineering Regiment. Read More …
Michael Patrick Takacs Jr., 43, of Warminster, is facing several charges including unlawfully possessing and transporting an explosive device which caused serious damage to his former supervisor’s vehicle. According to New Jersey’s District Attorney’s Office, around July 26 at approximately Read More …
Three Thai soldiers were injured after stepping on a landmine during a routine patrol along the Thai-Cambodian border in Kantharalak district of Si Sa Ket province on Saturday morning. It was the fourth time since mid-July that Thai soldiers have Read More …
A powerful roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the restive northwest of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least two officers and wounding 14 others, mostly passersby, officials said. The Read More …
Ukrainian security forces have arrested two 17-year-olds — a boy and a girl — in connection with a terrorist attack in Zhytomyr that killed one man and seriously injured another. The investigation revealed that the teenagers — a local vocational Read More …
Eight security personnel and three civilians embraced martyrdom in different terror attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, officials said on Wednesday. In Balochistan’s Mastung district, three security personnel, including a senior officer, were martyred and three others sustained injuries in Read More …
At least eight police officers were injured in an explosion that hit their vehicle along Banabs-Yumbis Road in Garissa County, police authorities said. The group was travelling in a police Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle in the area on Read More …
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) is intensifying demining efforts in the Binga district, with works currently underway in the Lusulu area. This was revealed by Zimbabwe National Army Chief of Staff Quarter Master Staff, Major General Simo Maseko, during the Read More …
Ukraine will resume shipping through the Bystre canal in Odesa Oblast effective 6 August, allowing the passage of vessels with a draught of up to 4.5 metres. Ukrainian media outlet AgroWeek Quote: “The Bystre canal was temporarily closed to shipping Read More …
After a hiatus of nearly five years, operatives of the banned CPI (Maoist) outfit appear to have made a return to the Odisha-Jharkhand border, triggering a series of blasts from Saturday night to Sunday evening. Police said the eastern regional Read More …
Two people were killed and another injured in a roadside bomb explosion in the Sui area of Dera Bugti district on Saturday. According to Levies officials, the incident took place in the Kanjo Saghari area of Sui, where an improvised Read More …