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A man in apparent emotional distress detonated an explosive device he was wearing during a confrontation with Boston police in Charlestown early Monday morning, leaving him seriously injured, according to a police report. The man was taken into custody and Read More …
Homes around the North Way Estate Park in Finglas were evacuated on Saturday evening due to the discovery of a viable suspicious device. The Irish Defense Forces and Gardaí attended the scene, with the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit undertaking a Read More …
An explosion occurred near the building of a district Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) in Mykolaiv, Lviv region, injuring a TRC service member. “Today, at around 16:30, an explosion involving an unidentified device occurred near the entrance to the building of Read More …
Police on Wednesday announced arrests in a case involving a criminal gang accused of stealing vehicles and blowing up an ATM in the town of Martino, south-central Fthiotida prefecture, as authorities investigate a series such robberies across Greece. Two local Read More …
German police have discovered a total of 12 explosive devices along power lines in the eastern state of Saxony following a series of attacks on the country’s power grid this week, press reports said. “These were intended to cause damage Read More …
A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with a security alert in Omagh. Residents were forced to evacuate their homes after a suspicious device was found at a property in the town yesterday morning. Police searched the home in Read More …
A number of viable devices were removed from a house in a Dundalk housing estate on Friday afternoon. Gardaí evacuated houses in the immediate vicinity, closed the road to the passage of traffic, and created a safe cordon. The Defence Forces’ Read More …
Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, New York, made her initial appearance today in federal court on charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, ISIS. “As alleged, Bowie plotted to deploy an explosive device at the New York State Read More …
A suicide attack bid targeting a security forces’ vehicle was foiled on Tuesday in Janikhel Malikhel area of Bannu. However, two security personnel sustained injuries in the incident. According to local sources, a suicide attacker travelling in a rickshaw attempted Read More …
Troops of the Nigerian Army have apprehended a suspected arms and explosives dealer while taking 180 20mm Super Power explosive materials to terrorists in Katsina forest. The man was arrested by troops of 1 Brigade at a checkpoint in Zurmi, Zamfara Read More …
Five people were killed while trying to defuse an explosive device in Sevastopol, the largest city in Russian-controlled Crimea, regional governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Thursday. He said four emergency service bomb disposal specialists and a security guard were carrying Read More …
Syrian security forces have arrested a nine-member cell affiliated with Daesh in the southern province of Quneitra, authorities said Sunday, as a stepped-up campaign targets the militant group’s networks and supply lines. The Internal Security Forces, working with the General Read More …
A car bomb exploded Saturday in southwestern Colombia, the army said, a day after conservative political neophyte Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as Colombia’s new president. The army alleged the attack was carried out by two dissident groups of the now-defunct Revolutionary Read More …
Director of Damascus Countryside Health Dr. Tawfiq Hasaba confirmed that the final toll from Thursday’s explosion in the city of Jaramana, Damascus Countryside, reached 14 injuries, including seven people who were transferred to Damascus Hospital, stressing that no fatalities were recorded. Among Read More …
An unidentified flying object hit a a cargo plane at a German airport on Wednesday, as the discovery of a drone carrying an explosive device caused disruption and the suspension of flights. An airport staff member discovered the drone in Read More …
The police discovered an explosive in the garden of a home in Rotterdam on Monday evening. They cordoned off the area and called in the Ministry of Defense’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) unit to remove the device. The police responded to the Read More …
Two bombs exploded on Tuesday near a hotel in Damascus where French President Emmanuel Macron spent the night, wounding 18 people and overshadowing the first visit to Syria by a European Union head of state since Bashar al-Assad was toppled. Macron, whose Read More …
A wealthy Maltese businessman accused of ordering the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia went on trial on Wednesday, nine years after the death of the journalist who investigated corruption on the small Mediterranean island. Yorgen Fenech, 44, was charged with Read More …
Italian police on Tuesday arrested four people suspected of carrying out an October bomb attack targeting a prominent journalist who had been threatened by the mafia. The blast in a residential neighborhood of Pomezia, about 12 miles south of Rome, destroyed two Read More …
A powerful explosion struck a residential building on rue Révérend-Père-Louis-Frolla in Monaco on Monday evening, injuring three people, two of them seriously, with a suspect still being sought by police. The blast occurred at around 9pm and was followed by Read More …