Philippines: Troops recover guns, IED components in hunt for 2 bomb-makers

The military seized more than a dozen firearms and components for home-made bombs from two elusive bombers. Edsrafil Manalasal Guiwan and Lakim Esmael, both of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, are tagged in recent deadly bombings in central Mindanao. They Read More …

Russia: FSB nabs several militants plotting terror attacks in Moscow Region

Russia’s Federal Security Service has detained several militants of the Islamic State terror group (outlawed in Russia), who plotted terror attacks in the Moscow Region. According to a video posted by the FSB Public Relations Center, five people were held Read More …

UK: Far-right extremist jailed for terror and explosives offences

A far-right extremist has been jailed for possessing explosives and terrorist documents. Filip Golon Bednarczyk, 26, denied planning an attack or attempting to make a bomb and claimed he was acting on “curiosity borne out of boredom”. Giving evidence at Read More …

Philippines: Bomb components discovered anew in Northern Samar

Police recovered on Friday, November 20, another raw materials used in the manufacturing of improvised explosive device (IED) in San Antonio, Northern Samar. Colonel Arnel Apud, director of Northern Samar Police Provincial Office (NSPPO), said they are doing “incessant intelligence Read More …

Argentina escalates border security after tip about explosives

Argentina said on Saturday it would tighten security at its border with Paraguay after its embassy in the United Kingdom received an anonymous tip alerting authorities to the possibility of bomb-making materials entering across its northern border. The tip warned Read More …

Minnesota: Two charged with setting off explosives in Lake Elmo and Afton

A receipt from a hardware store led authorities to the suspects who set off homemade explosive devices Monday night in the east metro communities of Lake Elmo and Afton. Nicholas Thole, 29, and his cousin, Seth Slaikeu, 40, were both Read More …

Florida: Homemade explosives found at home of Ocala man charged with aggravated assault on officer

An Ocala man is in custody after deputies say they removed several homemade explosive devices from his home. On Oct. 27, Paul Thomas Giangrasso, 47, was arrested for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, deputies say. During the arrest Read More …

Adelaide man with rocket fuel, dozens of IEDs had an ‘unhealthy hobby’ making explosives, court hears

A man had five homemade rockets, 27 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and almost 1.5 kilograms of rocket fuel at his Adelaide home because of his “unhealthy hobby” of manufacturing bombs, a court has heard. Lawyers for Phillip John Copley told Read More …

Philippines: Bombing plot foiled in Sulu

A bombing attempt in Jolo, Sulu was prevented after a concerned netizen reported an improvised explosive device (IED) made allegedly by a local terrorist, the military said Friday. The IED, which was sealed with coconut leaves, is believed to be Read More …

California: IEDs, homemade explosives lab found at Gilroy home where blast occurred

Authorities said they found multiple homemade IEDs and an explosives lab inside a residence in Gilroy that is at the center of an investigation. On Monday at around 2:20 p.m., Gilroy police responded to a home on the 1700 block Read More …

Oklahoma: OHP Bomb Squad Disarm ‘Improvised Explosive Device’ In Chelsea

The OHP bomb squad has disarmed an ‘improvised explosive device’ in Chelsea Thursday night. Rogers County Deputies said they were searching for 57-year-old Thomas John Smith for burglary when they found and arrested him under a bridge near 6th and Read More …

India: Naxal camp raided, destroyed in Chhattisgarh

A camp of Naxals was raided and destroyed in Endripal jungle in Farespal/Mirtur/Kirandul police station area along the Dantewada-Bijapur inter-district border on Tuesday. Dantewada DRG troops launched an operation based on intelligence input and recovered huge quantity of explosives/camping materials. Read More …

UK: Former female PCSO, 34, who now works as staff member at Lincolnshire Police is charged with making explosives and importing weapons

A former female police community support officer (PCSO) has been charged with making explosives and importing weapons after a raid on her house. Zoe Watts, 34, was arrested on Sunday after chemicals of a potentially explosive nature were found at Read More …

Philippines: Police discover another bomb-making facility in Northern Samar

Police discovered another abandoned manufacturing site for improvised explosive devices (IED) in the island town of San Antonio, Northern Samar following extensive intelligence gathering in the area. The 1st Northern Samar Provincial Mobile Force Company led by Major Edwin Oloan Read More …

Massachusetts: Explosives Removed from Monterey Home

Law enforcement officers discovered dozens of explosive devices and parts during the execution of a search warrant at a West Road home on Friday. A statement from the offices the Berkshire district attorney and the state fire marshal did not Read More …

UK: Eastleigh boy, 14, ‘researched bombs and made jihad video’

A 14-year-old boy researched making shrapnel bombs and filmed a video in which he vowed to carry out “jihad”, a court has heard. The boy, from Eastleigh, Hampshire, developed “extremist and radical” views after experiencing a troubled home life, Leicester Read More …

Philippines: Troops discover IED factory in Maguindanao

Philippine troops uncovered last Friday an improvised explosive device (IED) factory while on a combat clearing mission in Maguindanao. In a news release on Sunday, the military said the troops form the 1st Mechanized Infantry Battalion uncovered the factory in Read More …

Vietnam Jails 20 for Terrorism Over Police Station Bombs

Vietnamese court sentenced 20 people to between two and 24 years in prison on terrorism charges on Tuesday over their involvement in a police station bombing two years ago, their lawyer and state media said. The Ho Chi Minh City Read More …

Al-Shabaab’s Improvised Explosive Device Supply Chain Gambit In Somalia

Al-Shabaab ended 2019 with a truck-borne improvised explosive device (IED) attack that killed at least 82 people and wounded dozens more in Mogadishu, Somalia. It capped a decade of increasingly deadly complex suicide attacks by the Somali terrorist group that Read More …

Suspected Al Qaeda Terrorists Arrested in Plot to Attack Indian Navy

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested nine men who were allegedly preparing to carry out terrorist attacks on behalf of Al Qaeda – including an attack on Indian Navy facilities, according to local media. “The NIA had learnt about Read More …