Kansas: Pipe bomb found on Ottawa University campus leads to 3-hour lockdown

Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies are trying to find out how and why a pipe bomb was placed on Ottawa University’s campus. According to new information released by the Ottawa police department, the “suspicious device” that caused a Read More …

UNICEF voices concern over death, injury of children by landmine in Libya’s Tripoli

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday expressed concern over the death and injury of children by a landmine in south of the Libyan capital Tripoli. “UNICEF is deeply concerned over the death and injury of children due to Read More …

Londonderry: Man, 52, charged in New IRA bomb investigation

Police investigating the New IRA’s bomb-making activities have charged a 52-year-old man on suspicion of a number of terrorism offences. He was arrested under the Terrorism Act in Creggan, Londonderry, on Thursday. The charges include preparatory acts of terrorism, possession Read More …

Man apprehended in Crimea over espionage charges and production of explosive devices

A man, apprehended in Crimea by the Federal Security Service (FSB) and charged with production of explosive devices, has citizenship of Russia and Ukraine, Simferopol city court press service told TASS Tuesday. Earlier, FSB press service disclosed that the man Read More …

North Carolina: Man arrested in Brevard explosives case

Police have made an arrest after finding more than a dozen explosives scattered around the city of Brevard on Sunday. Terry Lee Barham, 64, of Brevard, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon and taken to the Transylvania County Jail, where Read More …

Philippines: Army, NPA clash in Apayao; guns, explosive seized

Several high-powered firearms and an explosive were recovered when elements of the Philippine Army (PA) figured in two separate armed encounters with suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Flora, Apayao over the weekend, the military bared Monday, March 15. Read More …

India: Hardcore Maoist Jairam Besra arrested with 40 kg IED

Giridih police arrested hardcore Maoist Jairam Besra with a 40 kg IED during a search operation between Rajaram Bhitta and Jaridih area within limits of Dumri police station area on Friday. According to the information, the police got this success Read More …

Weaponized Drones: The Next Terrorist Modus Operandi in Southeast Asia?

In 2020, a series of arrests conducted by Indonesia’s anti-terror police Detachment 88 revealed the terrorists’ intention to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones. In October last year, a group of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militants based in Read More …

Sri Lanka: US backs mine clearing operations

US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Martin Kelly visited a Mines Advisory Group (MAG) demining site, earlier this week to observe the measures undertaken to clear explosive hazards in the area and speak with a team of female deminers. Read More …

Russia: FSB wards off terror plot aimed at school in Penza

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a suspect plotting a terrorist attack against an educational institution in Penza. A hunting rifle and instructions for making an explosive device were confiscated, the FSB’s public relations center told TASS on Wednesday. Read More …

Michigan student accidentally detonates homemade explosive device in classroom

A Michigan high school student accidentally detonated a homemade explosive device he brought to school Monday morning, injuring himself and four of his classmates, police said. Officers from the Newaygo Police Department responded to Newaygo High School in west-central Michigan Read More …

10 years of conflict: ‘It will take at least two generations to rebuild Syria’

15th March 2021 marks 10 years since the start of the conflict in Syria, and the humanitarian crisis is only getting worse. Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is working in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt with Syrians who have lost everything Read More …

France provides additional USD 617,000 for UNMAS activities in Iraq

Baghdad, 04 March 2021 – The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Iraq welcomes an additional contribution of EUR 505,000 (approximately USD 617,000) from the Government of France renewing its commitment in supporting the Government of Iraq to protect Read More …

Russia: FSB foils terror attack on power facility in Kaliningrad Region

The Federal Security Service (FSB) has apprehended a Russian national plotting a terror attack on a power facility in the Kaliningrad Region out of hatred for authorities, the FSB press office told TASS on Thursday. “The Federal Security Service has Read More …

Cambodian dog, Kunthea, boards flight to South Sudan for demining works

Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC)’s director-general, Heng Ratana said Kunthea, born in Cambodia and trained by CMAC technicians, was ordered by APOPO-Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling for mine and UXO clearance mission in South Sudan. Kunthea is one of the six Read More …

UK: Man arrested after pipe bomb was discovered under hedge in ‘sleepy village’ in Nottinghamshire

Residents in a ‘sleepy village’ have spoken of their shock after an explosive device was found under a hedge. A man has been arrested after a small, pipe-bomb like device was found in Church Laneham on Sunday. Police were called Read More …

Colorado: White supremacist jailed for 20 years for plotting to bomb a synagogue

A white supremacist has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue last year as a judge described the case as ‘dripping with Nazism.’ Richard Holzer, 28, was sentenced to 235 months Read More …

Thailand: Home-bomber dies in explosion in Kanchanaburi Province

A 22-year-old man was found dead, his arm blown off, after a homemade bomb exploded in a field near his house in Muang district on Friday morning. Local police were informed of the explosion, outside house No.360 in Ban Nong Read More …