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Today, the Council adopted two important priority files under the Security Union which strengthen EU rules on explosives precursors and facilitate law-enforcement access to financial information. The reinforced rules on explosives precursors will ensure stronger safeguards and controls, including online, Read More …
In the final of a three part series following the training of a Leicester based Army Reserve unit over a five-month period, LeicestershireLive reporter Alan Thompson and photographer/videographer Andy Baker joined 2 Company, 3rd Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment on Read More …
Spotted roaming the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday was a six-year veteran of one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Yankee, a land mine-detecting German shepherd, along with her handler, Perry Baltimore, a retired Army general, joined Yemen’s Read More …
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) this week highlighted the grim situation produced by the explosive remnants of years of battle in Iraq with Islamic State and others. “The scale, density and complexity of explosive hazards are unprecedented, making Read More …
Three al-Shabaab militants died on the spot after an Improvised Explosive Device they were planting along Bodhai-Baragoni road in Boni Forest, Tana River county exploded. It is alleged the explosives were strategically being planted to detonate on security officers patrolling Read More …
The police forces seized 550 kilograms of explosives from a vegetables truck in Nuristan province. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Monday that the police forces also arrested two people in connection to the smuggling of explosives. According to a Read More …
A roadside bomb explosion killed six members of a single family in Kandahar province of Afghanistan. According to local security officials, the incident took place earlier today in the vicinity of Dand district of Kandahar. The officials further added that Read More …
Radicals linked to Iranian-backed Hezbollah were caught stashing tonnes of explosive materials in north-west London in a secret British bomb factory, M15 and Metropolitan Police officers discovered in 2015, a matter of months after the UK signed up to the Read More …
Bulgarian officials said on Saturday that they had arrested and charged a 16-year-old student who had been radicalized by the Islamic State with planning a terrorist attack. The Islamic State had recruited the teenager, who is from Plovdiv, in a Read More …
Preliminary investigation into the two explosions that hit as many vehicles in Ziarat on Friday suggested that improvised explosive devices (IED) were used to carry out the terror attacks which claimed five lives and left 13 people injured. No group Read More …
Bomb squads have been scrambled 5,000 times in five years to disarm potentially deadly wartime explosives. That figure could soar as building projects unearth more bombs across UK cities. The 5,041 alerts between 2014 and 2018 were revealed in the Read More …
What do bees and bombs have in common? To find the answer, you have to look closely. Pollen, the same powder that bees carry from flower to flower, doesn’t stay in the garden. “There are hundreds of thousands of types Read More …
The New IRA has said it left a bomb under a police officer’s car at Shandon Park Golf Club in east Belfast last weekend. The Irish News said it had issued a statement to the newspaper using a recognised codeword. Police Read More …
A man has been arrested after authorities say he was plotted to detonate explosive devices in Manhattan’s Times Square. Police sources tell CBS2 that the suspect was taken into custody by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes both the Read More …
The Manbij Internal Security Forces on Monday released a statement announcing the arrest of a group of six people, including two women, accused of being responsible for at least ten sleeper cell attacks in the city. “Recently, terrorist attacks and bombings Read More …
A bus carrying government employees in the Afghan capital Kabul was attacked with an improvised explosive device (IED), on Monday killing at least five people, officials said. Nusrat Rahimi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said the bus carrying government Read More …
Iraqi security forces announced, on Monday, foiling a booby-trapped vehicle attack and arresting a militant in Gogjali area, east of Mosul. In a press statement, the Media Cell said that the security forces apprehended a suspect, after a partial explosion Read More …
A bomb found under a serving police officer’s car at a Belfast golf club is being treated as attempted murder by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Police and Army bomb disposal experts were called to the scene at Shandon Read More …
A series of blasts rocked an explosives factory in the central Russian city of Dzerzhinsk, damaging almost 200 buildings. At least 79 people have been injured, 16 hospitalized. “A big explosion roared, my ears popped and then sirens went off. Read More …
A day after 26 security personnel were injured in a series of IED blasts triggered by Maoists in Seraikela, 13 IEDs were recovered from a cave at Bagsara near Pipra’s SeerniyaDam during a police-CRPF joint operation. Apart from the IEDs, the forces Read More …