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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 …
A series of parcel bombs sent to locations in London and Glasgow earlier this year have been connected to devices targeting army offices in 2014. Anti-terror investigators have said they are now “formally linking” the incendiary devices posted in March and explosives sent Read More …
Thirteen personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Jharkhand Police were injured in a series of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts allegedly triggered by Maoists in Jharkhand’s Saraikela Kharsawan early on Tuesday, police said. All the injured personnel Read More …
An American cargo ship which sank off the Kent coast 74 years ago packed full of explosives could accidentally blow up at any time, causing devastating tsunamis and more than £1 billion of damage. Lying half-submerged near the mouth of Read More …
Two men, including the grandson of former lord mayor of Dublin Christy Burke, have received sentences totalling 14 years at the Special Criminal Court after they were caught with four kilograms of the explosive TNT and a hand grenade in Read More …
The Afghan Special Forces conducted separate operations in south-eastern Paktika province killing at least 10 militants and arresting three others. “In an Afghan special forces operation in Bermal district, 10 Taliban fighters were killed and 1 VBIED and IED making Read More …
The incident that occurred at about 9pm on Sunday is a crude bomb attack, police suspect. All personnel in the capital were put on alert from the police control room after the incident. The injured are Traffic Police ASI Rasheda Read More …
At least four people died and seven others were injured in three explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, officials say. The three blasts – one in the centre and two on the outskirts – took place on Sunday afternoon local Read More …
An improvised explosive device was tossed into a vehicle Sunday morning in the 3100 block of North 61st Street in Kansas City, Kansas. The KCK Police Department’s Bomb Unit responded at the request of the KCK Fire Department after the Read More …
East Africa’s extremist groups may be widening their influence to the south of the continent, deepening violence in countries such as Mozambique, according to a recent study by a US Defence Department think tank. The Pentagon’s Africa Centre for Strategic Read More …
A suspected parcel bomb has exploded in the eastern French city of Lyon, injuring at least eight people, local media report. Those hurt in the explosion on Victor-Hugo Street seemed to have suffered superficial injuries to the lower limbs, one Read More …
An explosion ripped through a mosque in Kabul city earlier this afternoon killing one person and injuring at least 16 others. A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior Nasrat Rahimi said the incident took place at around 1:20pm local time Read More …