Pakistan: One killed, security personnel injured in South Waziristan IED blast

A civilian was killed and a security personnel injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in the Anzar Cheena is a location in the Shakai Tehsil in Lower South Waziristan on Saturday. According to sources, the explosion took place Read More …

Michigan: Pipe bombs found in abandoned vehicle in Saginaw

Authorities discovered pipe bombs in an abandoned vehicle in Saginaw this week thanks, in part, to an explosive-sniffing K9, according to the Saginaw Police Department. A Saginaw officer and police dog were dispatched Monday, May 19 to Mike’s Wrecker, located Read More …

North Carolina: ‘Improvised’ explosive device, $41K in stolen property seized from Burke County house

An “improvised” explosive device and over $41,000 in stolen property were seized from a house in Burke County last week, according to deputies. Amid the investigation, 40-year-old Harrel Powell Jr. was arrested. Records showed he was jailed under a $70,000 Read More …

Pakistan: Remote-controlled blast targets police in Lower Dir

A remote-controlled bomb exploded near an armoured police vehicle in the Ashrogi area of Lower Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Sunday. According to police officials, the blast did not cause any casualties or major damage. However, the explosion was immediately followed Read More …

Guyana: Home-made explosive device rips off police outpost gate

An improvised explosive device early Saturday morning knocked off the back gate of the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost hurling it several feet away, police said. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Deputy Police Commissioner Wendell Blanhum told Demerara Waves Online Read More …

Idaho: Boise police discover explosive devices during drug investigation

Boise police officers discovered multiple suspected improvised explosive devices while serving a search warrant related to a narcotics investigation, according to a Facebook post by the Boise Police Department. The discovery occurred on Alfred Court when Neighborhood Contact Officers initially Read More …

Thailand: Bomb attack injures two officers in Pattani’s Yaring district

An explosive attack on a military truck belonging to the 44th Ranger Regiment Task Force in Pattani has left two officers injured. The attack took place at 1pm yesterday, May 13, when unidentified assailants planted a bomb in Yaring district. Read More …

Pakistan: Bomb defused in DI Khan

Security agencies successfully neutralised an improvised explosive device planted along a road, thereby preventing what could have been a deadly assault targeting security forces and police personnel near Khoi Bahara police station on Tuesday. According to a statement issued by Read More …

Niger: Improvised explosive device kills eight gold miners in the Tillaberi region

A bomb blast in insurgent-riven west Niger has killed at least eight workers at the Samira gold mine in the Tillaberi region, local sources told AFP on Tuesday. Located in the borderlands straddling Niger and fellow unrest-hit Sahel neighbours Mali Read More …

Pakistan: Three children injured in Bannu blast

Three schoolboys were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Surani Sikandakhel Bala area of Bannu district on Monday. A police official said that unknown miscreants had planted an improvised explosive device along a road near a government high school Read More …

British Columbia: Nanaimo man charged after loaded handgun, pipe bomb seized

A 51-year-old Nanaimo man is facing multiple firearms-related charges after police say he was arrested with a loaded handgun and later found to have a pipe bomb and multiple firearms at home. James Newstead was arrested without incident the night Read More …

UK: Bomb squad called to petrol station ATM blast

A bomb disposal unit was called to a petrol station after an explosion during an attempted theft at a cash machine. It happened between Sunday evening and Monday morning at Hedgeley Services, off the A697 at Powburn in Northumberland. It Read More …

Israel: IED near gas tanks on Saadia Gaon Street in Haifa

Coastal District police from the Haifa station, together with a police sapper, recently located an explosive device near gas cylinders on a criminal background in a residential building on Saadia Gaon Street in Haifa, and are currently working to neutralize Read More …

India: IED defused in Haryana

An improvised explosive device (IED) recovered during a counter-terror operation in Sector 39 on Thursday night has been safely defused by a bomb squad from the Indian Army’s Western Command, based in Chandimandir. The 2-kg device, believed to contain RDX, Read More …

Pakistan: The shadow war

While most of the week’s headlines focused on India’s direct assault on Pakistan, its indirect, clandestine attacks also went on in the shadows all the while. A CTD official was martyred in a firing incident in the Hassankhel area of Read More …

India: Security forces foil cross border smuggling bid in Manipur

Security force in Manipur, while foiling yet another bid to smuggle arms and explosives along Indo-Myanmar border, recovered a cache of arms and explosives which included among others, six IEDs. Arms and explosives were found in two gunny bags left Read More …

Pakistan: CTD arrests two TTP militants in Sahiwal

The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested two suspected members of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in sting operations in Sahiwal and its outskirts. In a raid conducted late Wednesday night near Village 58/GD, on the Faisalabad-Sahiwal Road in Noor Shah, Read More …

North Carolina: Expect explosive noises near Cherry Point, airfields in May

Officials with Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point said Friday that residents near the air station and its outlying airfields can expect multiple military training operations throughout May. Ground training will be conducted at Marine Outlying Field Atlantic, May 12-16 Read More …

Nigeria: IED injures five children near construction site in Mafa, Borno State

An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion in Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State on May 8, 2025, left five children injured, one of whom lost a hand. The explosion occurred around 1425hrs when the children unknowingly tampered with IED Read More …

British and Australian bomb disposal experts killed in IED explosion in Ukraine

A bomb disposal expert from the Isle of Man has died, following severe injuries while dismantling an improvised explosive device. Chris Garrett, from Peel, had dedicated years to clearing landmines in Ukraine, and stepped up to volunteer after the Russian Read More …