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An attack on a hotel in the centre of the port city of Kismayo in southern Somalia killed nine civilians on Sunday before security forces killed the gunmen. Security officers killed three of the attackers and a fourth died in Read More …
An explosion struck on Saturday an ambulance carrying a medic team of the southern pro-government Yemeni forces in southern Abyan province, killing five medics on board, a security official told Xinhua. “A remotely detonated Improvised Explosive Device (IED) struck an Read More …
Two security officials were martyred and three others injured in a roadside explosion in the Johan area of Kalat district on Friday. Levies officials said unidentified people planted an improvised explosive device (IED) by the roadside and detonated it by Read More …
Two children were killed and two others injured after an unexploded mortar shell exploded in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, said local Taliban officials. A mortar shell struck the Zazi district of Paktia province on Saturday, October 22, killing Read More …
Cash was stolen from an ATM in Launceston after thieves caused a ‘small explosion’ and reversed their van into the machine. The incident happened at a Co-op store on Newport Industrial Estate at around 2am on Thursday 20 October. Devon Read More …
A senior official of Yemen’s pro-government security forces survived an explosion that struck his motorcade in the country’s southern oil-rich province of Shabwa on Thursday, a government official told Xinhua. “The explosion apparently caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), Read More …
At least two bombs exploded outside a prison in Myanmar’s commercial hub Yangon on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 18. The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since a military coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian Read More …
In improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in the Garmiyan region of Sulaimani province on Wednesday, at least a Peshmerga officer was killed and seven others were wounded, the Kurdish force announced. The forces were deployed in Tawer Kawa village of Read More …
A fourth United Nations soldier has died from injuries from a highway bomb in northern Mali, a day after the blast claimed the lives of three of his comrades, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission said Tuesday. Their vehicle Read More …
A preliminary investigation of damage on the two Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Danish part of the Baltic Sea shows the leaks were caused by “powerful explosions”, Copenhagen Police has said. The force added officers investigated the “crime scenes” Read More …
At least 8 people were killed and over 5 wounded in an explosion that rocked Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Monday evening, witnesses and police said. The IED blast occurred on a busy street in El-Qalow area located in the Read More …
Two MINUSMA peacekeepers were killed today, 17 October, when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device during a search and detection patrol of mines in Tessalit, Kidal region. This incident also resulted in 4 serious injuries among peacekeepers. Read More …
Two bombs exploded near the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge just over the border from Mae Sot district, Tak on Saturday night. The first bomb detonated at the Myawaddy-Mae Sot border checkpoint at 7.20pm, causing damage to one car. The second Read More …
wo people were killed in southeastern Niger on Sunday by a road bomb which exploded as they were passing with donkeys, local sources told AFP. “Two women were killed and a child was seriously wounded when an improvised explosive device Read More …
At least 10 people, including children, lost their lives and 16 others were injured in a mine explosion in Hawo Abdi area of Lower Shabelle region. The explosion hit a truck carrying vegetables heading towards Mogadishu, according to witnesses. The Read More …
At least three people were killed and five injured when their vehicle was hit by a landmine blast in Balochistan’s Mastung district on Friday, according to an official. Assistant Commissioner Dasht Fareeda Tareen told Dawn.com, that the blast targeted people Read More …
An explosion killed at least eleven people on a bus in central Mali on Thursday, a region regularly rocked by jihadist violence, according to police and local sources. The bus was struck by a blast on the road between Bandiagara Read More …
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan commander Maulvi Abdullah was critically injured in a targeted attack in Afghanistan’s Kunar province on Sunday. The former chief justice of the Bajaur tribal district was inside a vehicle when an improvised explosive device attack resulted in him Read More …
IED blast in Kalat Balochistan claims two lives. At least two people lost their lives in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Balochistan’s Kalat district. Levies sources said the incident happened in the Johan area of Kalat. As per Read More …
As a result of an explosion in Kabul’s Dewan Begi area PD5 Saturday morning, three civilians were injured, sources said. Khalid Zadran, Kabul police spokesman confirmed the blast in a tweet, saying it was due to a mine placed in Read More …