Kenya: Police avert major IED attack by Al-Shabaab at Mandera border point

Police in Mandera East on Wednesday, June 5 averted a possible tragedy when they recovered and demolished an IED planted in an abandoned house. Corporal Ibrahim Isaac says that at around 9 am while manning the border at Border Point Read More …

French police arrest Russo-Ukrainian man with explosives near Paris

The man was treated by fire-fighters after he “suffered significant burns following an explosion,” on Monday, the source said. A subsequent search of his room led to the discovery of products and materials intended for the manufacture of explosive devices, Read More …

Philippines: BIFF bomb-maker killed, IEDs seized in anti-terror operation

Soldiers killed a member of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and confiscated 26 improvised explosive devices in an air and ground anti-terror offensive in Barangay Butilen, Salibo town in Maguindanao del Sur on Saturday. Soldiers dispatched to clear the area Read More …

UK: Man caught with homemade explosive device sparking evacuation jailed

A man who built a homemade explosive forcing around 60 people to flee their homes has been jailed for 30 months. Christopher Scarr was caught with the device in a cupboard at the property in Glasgow’s Springburn on April 17, Read More …

UK: Girlfriend and mother convicted over failure to disclose Islamist terror plans

The mother and girlfriend of two Islamist terrorists have been convicted separately of failing to disclose plans for a terror attack in two different criminal trials. Girlfriend Tasnia Ahmed, 21, from Tower Hamlets in east London, failed to report her Read More …

UK: Man jailed after ammunition and explosive material found at East London address

Ricky Anderson, 45 (09.08.78) of Beechwood Drive, Woodford Green appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Thursday, 9 May where he was sentenced to a total of five years in prison for firearm offences. Anderson was also given a five year Read More …

Crimea Bridge Explosion Caused by Equivalent to 10 Tons of TNT

The main bridge linking the Russian mainland to annexed Crimea was blown up in October 2022 using an improvised explosive device with a power equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, a Russian newspaper has reported. “The group members, at an Read More …

Jammu and Kashmir: Arms, Ammunition Recovered In Reasi

Security forces on Saturday recovered cache of arms and ammunition, including Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and explosives, from a terrorist hideout in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. A police spokesman said that acting on the reliable information regarding presence Read More …

Nepal: Little-known armed group detonates ‘pressure cooker bomb’ at Ncell tower in Sindhuli

A ‘pressure cooker bomb’ was exploded at the Ncell Tower located in Kamalamai Municipality-4 of Sindhuli. According to the police, the explosion occurred at around 1 o’clock on Wednesday night. Superintendent of Police (SP) Binod Sharma of the District Police Read More …

India: Huge cache of explosives recovered in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district

Security forces recovered a huge cache of explosives, hidden by Naxalites, from two places in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Sunday, an official said. The recovery was made between Tondamarka and Dabbamarka villages under Kistaram police station limits by a joint Read More …

Russia: Security forces seize explosives hidden in icons in Pskov Region

Explosives hidden in icons and seized by security officers in the Pskov Region in Russia’s northwest could have blown up a five-story apartment block, Department Head of the Interior Ministry’s Regional Forensic Center Dmitry Belotserkovsky said on Tuesday. Russia’s Federal Read More …

Arizona: Partially assembled pipe bomb and IED components found in Yavapai County

A man hiking in rural Arizona with his children made a potentially explosive discovery last week: a partially assembled pipe bomb. The hiker found an ammo can within a cluster of boulders Friday near Hillside, a Yavapai County community about Read More …

Kentucky: Madisonville man arrested for allegedly making homemade explosives

A Madisonville man was arrested by the FBI on Thursday for allegedly making homemade explosives. Federal court documents state Robert Coleman, 66, was “knowingly engaging in the business of importing, manufacturing, and/or dealing in explosive materials.” The FBI was alerted Read More …

Georgia: Two men planned to have python eat woman’s daughter before bombing her home

Two Georgia men have been indicted on several federal charges in the bombing of a woman’s home and plotting to have a large python “eat the victim’s daughter,” federal officials announced last week. According to the release, the two men Read More …

India: 54 detonators found at Kalyan railway station

More than 50 detonators were found abandoned in two boxes on platform number one of Kalyan railway station on Wednesday, a Government Railway Police (GRP) official said. The official added the boxes were spotted at 11.30am by the GRP officials Read More …

India: Man held in Uttar Pradesh for making bottle bombs

The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday said it has arrested a man for allegedly making timer bombs using glass bottles packed with iron pellets. Four timer bombs have been recovered from Javed, a resident of Read More …

Florida: Threats against Loxahatchee HOA members lead to discovery of explosive devices

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) Bomb Squad discovered multiple types of suspected explosive devices in the home of a man accused of making threats against members of a homeowners association, a probable cause affidavit stated. Loxahatchee resident Graham Read More …

Israel arrest 21 in West Bank raid, locates explosives warehouse

An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson stated 21 wanted persons were arrested overnight, between Tuesday to Wednesday, in a counterterrorism operation in the West bank. The Israel Border Police and IDF were guided by intelligence from the Shin Bet internal Read More …

Republic of Georgia says it seized Russia-bound cargo of explosives sent from Ukraine

Georgia’s State Security Service said on Monday that it had seized a clandestine shipment of explosives bound for the Russian city of Voronezh from the Ukrainian port of Odesa. The South Caucasus country’s domestic security agency said that the explosives Read More …

UK: Islamist extremists including youth who failed to report chemical bomb plot jailed

Two Islamist extremists have been jailed for terrorist offences. Al-Arfat Hassan, 21, from Enfield, was sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing chemicals for a terrorist purpose. A youth, 17, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for failure Read More …