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Seven soldiers of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) were wounded last Saturday after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off under their convoy, the mission said. The roadside IED exploded as the convoy went over Read More …
A second blast was reported at Heritage Street near Golden Temple, Amritsar within 32 hours on Monday morning. The explosion happened at the spot where a blast left six people injured on Sunday. According to an eyewitness, the explosion was Read More …
Russia’s investigative committee has charged Alexander Permyakov, detained for an attempt on the life of the writer Zakhar Prilepin, with terrorism and is petitioning for his arrest, the committee’s press service told reporters on Monday. “The Main Investigation Department of Read More …
Seven soldiers were killed Sunday after their vehicle ran over a landmine in the Niger’s western Tillaberi region, said the National Guard of Niger (GNN). A vehicle carrying supplies on a weekly delivery run hit the mine late in the Read More …
A tractor hit a mine in a field between the villages of Verbivka and Vovchyi Yar in Kharkiv Oblast, killing two men, aged 39 and 47, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported on May 2. Syniehubov urged locals to be Read More …
Russia has claimed it stopped two drone attacks on Vladimir Putin’s presidential home overnight. The Kremlin blamed Ukraine for what it called a “terrorist act”. It said Russian military and security forces disabled the drones before they could strike. Read Read More …
Six General Service Unit personnel were Monday injured after their vehicle was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device in Rhamu, Mandera County. The officers were driving in an official vehicle headed for Mandera town on Monday evening when they ran Read More …
An improvised explosive device (IED) went off in front of a shop at Tiara Mutiara 1 off Jalan Puchong, Old Klang Road here. Brickfields OCPD Asst Comm Amihizam Abdul Shukor said the incident occurred at about 6am on Tuesday (May Read More …
Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev has escaped unscathed after a large explosion occurred Monday near his car which the authorities have described as a targeted attack on him. Attackers had placed a bomb at a bend in the road where Read More …
A police officer was seriously injured during May Day protests as unions in France rallied against new laws to raise the country’s pension age. More than 60 people have been arrested in clashes in Paris, Lyon and Nantes as a Read More …
An explosive went off at a coffeeshop on Witte de Withstraat in Rotterdam city center early on Monday morning, bringing the total number of blasts in the city to around 50 this year. The police arrested a 26-year-old man from Read More …
The locomotive of a freight train derailed after an explosive device went off in the Bryansk Region in western Russia, Governor Alexander Bogomaz reported on Monday. “An unidentified explosive device went off at the 136th kilometer of the Bryansk-Unecha railroad Read More …
At least five children were killed in a blast caused by an unexploded bomb on Friday afternoon in central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan. The explosion occurred on Friday at around 3:30 pm as kids were playing in the village Read More …
A police officer who defected to Russia was killed in an explosion in the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol on Thursday. Oleksandr Mishchenko succumbed to his grievous injuries after an improvised device exploded at the entrance to the block where Read More …
Militants in northwest Pakistan set off a bomb while targeting a temporary military camp with rockets and guns, in an incident that killed at least three troops, security officials said on Friday, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Read More …
Five Nigerian soldiers died after their vehicle hit a mine suspected to have been planted by Islamic State group-aligned jihadists near the border with Niger, security sources said Wednesday. The unit was on a routine patrol in Laayi village near Read More …
This year has seen more bombings than usual in Sweden. Often these are related to gang conflicts, but the violence also affects children to a large extent, according to a Swedish Radio News investigation. Swedish Radio News has looked at Read More …
Sources said Naxals attacked a patrolling party on Wednesday afternoon on Aranpur road in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada. A Team of DRG was returning in a vehicle to their headquarters when an IED planted on the Aranpur road exploded, killing at least Read More …
A 33-year-old civilian was injured in an anti-personnel landmine explosion in the direction of Sugovushan village of Azerbaijan’s Tartar district, the press service of the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) told News.Az. Khazar Babashov, a driver of the International Eurasian Read More …
At least six Cameroonian military personnel were killed on Monday by an anti-personnel mine explosion in the vicinity of the town of Hiteré, located in the Far North region, according to authorities. Security sources quoted by the Cameroonian news portal Read More …