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Colombian troops have begun using explosive-laden drones to fight against guerrillas and gangs, as the device is increasingly used in battlefields around the world for different purposes. Speaking to NPR, Army Gen. Juan Carlos Correa said criminal groups are also Read More …
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Travis Air Force Base conducted a combat readiness exercise June 30 – July 10, 2025, to test the installation’s ability to respond to emergent threats, maintain security and execute global mobility missions under pressure. Read More …
A drone attack halted production at the Sarsang oilfield in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Tuesday only hours before its U.S. operator signed a deal to develop another field. The Sarsang field is operated by HKN Energy, a privately held U.S. Read More …
Terror groups are increasingly using new tactics, notably armed suicide or kamikaze drones, according to a government statement released following several attacks on cities in western Mali on 1 July. The use of commercially available small civilian drones for strikes Read More …
In recent months, more than a dozen Indigenous communities in northwest Mexico have been violently displaced from their lands by criminal organizations. Drawn by the promise of gold and other valuable minerals, these groups have escalated their tactics—using drones armed Read More …
In the Sumy region, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) specialists destroyed the warhead of a Russian drone equipped with fragmentation mines. The Sumy Regional Police reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform. “One of the attack drones used by the enemy Read More …
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) on Tuesday strongly condemned an explosion that struck the Darkar camp housing internally displaced Yazidis in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, calling for a full investigation into what it described as an Read More …
Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, which aims to neuter Iran’s nuclear and long-range weapons capabilities, began with an overnight attack on a wide array of targets. These strikes included the use of drones and missiles launched by operatives from deep within Read More …
Iran says it has launched waves of ballistic missiles towards Israel in retaliation for a major deadly attack on Tehran’s nuclear sites and military leaders. Explosions were heard over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as sirens sounded across Israel on Friday Read More …
The scene is by now all too familiar for those acquainted with coverage of modern war. A bird’s-eye view frames two figures ambling about below, then charts the path of an improvised explosive charge as it tumbles down, impacting with Read More …
The IAEA team based at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) today heard repeated rounds of gunfire that appeared to be aimed at drones reportedly attacking the site’s training centre, followed by the sound of multiple explosions, Director General Rafael Read More …
Ukraine carried out a massive drone strike at airbases across Russia on Sunday, claiming to have destroyed dozens of aircraft. There are also indications that Russia’s Northern Fleet headquarters, home of Russian nuclear submarines, was attacked as well. Overall, the Read More …
Criminal groups in Michoacán are recruiting local pyrotechnic artisans to manufacture improvised explosive devices (IEDs), often under threat, according to federal and state authorities. Carlos Roberto Gómez Ruiz, deputy director of the Explosives and Hazardous Materials Unit of the Michoacán Read More …
A new front for drone warfare has opened a two-hour flight south of Miami. Haiti’s besieged government is using drones strapped with explosives to strike gangs that have turned the nation’s capital into a hellscape. The government is relying on Read More …
While most of the week’s headlines focused on India’s direct assault on Pakistan, its indirect, clandestine attacks also went on in the shadows all the while. A CTD official was martyred in a firing incident in the Hassankhel area of Read More …
The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) early Tuesday carried out a drone attack targeting the seaport and airport in the city of Port Sudan, eastern Sudan. According to an Anadolu correspondent, fires broke out at Port Sudan city’s airport Read More …
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition campaign group said Friday that one of its ships bound for the Gaza Strip, carrying aid and dozens of activists, was attacked in international waters by drones in the middle of the night off Malta, causing Read More …
Australia’s opposition leader Peter Dutton has confirmed that his family home was the target of an alleged bomb plot, but insisted the incident would not hinder his campaign to replace Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the 3 May federal election. Read More …
The war in Ukraine opened Pandora’s box when it comes to using drones in combat. The low-cost, remotely guided flying contraptions can drop explosives from the sky or come down and literally blow up in an enemy combatant’s lap. Now Read More …
Under the cover of darkness, the jihadists moved into Wulgo, where the shores of Lake Chad meet the arid countryside of northern Nigeria. Around 1:00 am, a “barrage” of rocket-propelled grenades was fired, sending Cameroonian troops, stationed there as part Read More …