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A senior ISIS member specializing in bomb-making was arrested on Tuesday, Iraq’s National Security Service (INSS) said, noting that the operation capped more than 10 months of surveillance and monitoring. Identified as a “high-risk operative,” INSS stated that the detainee’s Read More …
Federal authorities said Monday that they foiled a plot to bomb multiple sites of two U.S. companies on New Year’s Eve in Southern California after arresting members of an extremist anti-capitalist and anti-government group. The four suspects were arrested Friday Read More …
A Massachusetts man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stockpiling materials used to create explosive devices at his apartment in Salem, Massachusetts. Patrick Gordon, 42, was arraigned in Salem District Court on charges of possession of an incendiary device and possession Read More …
Jess Kiesel Lee, 43, of Kula, Maui, was sentenced last week by US District Judge Jill A. Otake to 40 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release for possessing, as a convicted felon, explosive powder. The announcement Read More …
A call to a domestic assault has today led to the conviction of an 18-year-old man, who had spent years manufacturing a collection of weapons from his bedroom. Today, Sakhile Ntsele, 18 (10.01.2007) of Wandsworth Road, SW8 has been convicted Read More …
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have recovered seven petrol bombs, four crude bombs, and various bomb-making materials from a bush inside a park in the capital’s Mohammadpur area. The explosives were found abandoned during a special operation conducted Read More …
As part of its proactive security measures to safeguard the country and maintain stability, the Ministry of Interior has announced that the State Security Service successfully arrested a citizen affiliated with a banned group that threatens the security of Kuwait Read More …
The National Security Guard (NSG) alerted authorities about the recent spike in the use of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) by ‘terror groups’ due to easy availability of individual components and chemicals. The NSP submitted a report in this regard to Read More …
At least 12 militants were killed in a series of security operations in Bajaur, Hangu and North Waziristan districts between Friday night and Saturday, officials and local sources said. Separately, a station house officer (SHO) was injured in Hangu during Read More …
Caldwell Police served a search warrant yesterday at 500 block of E. Ithaca near N. 5th Avenue as part of an ongoing investigation into 67-year-old Randy Robinson. According to news release from the Caldwell Police Department, Robinson was investigated for Read More …
A man had more than 200 handmade destructive devices — including bottle rockets and molotov cocktails — in a tent on the steps of a D.C. cathedral where Supreme Court justices were expected to attend Mass on Sunday, court records Read More …
A man has been charged over an alleged plot to blow up a cash machine. The ATM, at Hedgeley Services in Powburn, Northumberland, was on fire when police arrived on 12 May. Kristopher Follos, 45, of Olivers Mill, Morpeth, appeared Read More …
There’s a new security headache for forces battling Maoist insurgency in Chhattisgarh: empty beer bottles. In an intriguing development, security personnel, on Monday, recovered and defused ‘bottle IEDs’ — crude bombs packed inside empty beer bottles. The bottles rigged with Read More …
Boko Haram factions are increasingly using dung to disguise improvised explosive devices Boko Haram factions are increasingly using dung to disguise improvised explosive devices (IEDs), in particular landmines, and boost their ignition. These landmines are similar to conventional antipersonnel landmines – Read More …
At least 14 terrorists and 10 civilians were killed in a powerful explosion at an improvised explosive device (IED) manufacturing facility in the Akakhel area of Khyber district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), late on Sunday night. According to the state-run Associated Press Read More …
Troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) North East, Operation Hadin Kai, have intercepted a large consignment of logistics supplies intended for terrorists in Yobe State. Spokesman Lt. Col. Sani Uba described the interception as a major breakthrough in ongoing Read More …
The special cell has found a large quantity of potassium nitrate, a key ingredient for making IEDs, in searches conducted after busting a terror module allegedly planning targeted killings and blasts. Last week, Delhi Police, in coordination with central intelligence Read More …
At least thirteen terrorists were killed when explosives stored in one of their hideouts in Bannu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) went off on Sunday. In a separate incident, another terrorist was eliminated during a gun battle in Dera Ismail Khan. Read More …
A man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing and making explosives after a security alert in Belfast. Police were searching a property at Bentham Drive, off Sandy Row in the city yesterday when they found several suspicious objects. Army bomb Read More …
A North East man has been jailed after explosive substances were found in his home, after bomb experts called in to check them. Andrew Tait, 42, was arrested when police attended his Pennywell Road home in Sunderland after being tipped Read More …