Kenya: Three KDF soldiers killed in suspected Al-Shabab attack

Three Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) soldiers were killed, and more than 10 others injured when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device Sunday in coastal Lamu County. The incident comes a few days after eight KDF soldiers were killed Read More …

Israel: 8 IDF soldiers wounded in Jenin gun battle, armored vehicle bombed

Eight IDF soldiers were wounded in the terrorist hotbed of Jenin on Monday after an arrest operation turned into a shootout that lasted nearly eight hours. The forces were ambushed by gunfire as they began to leave, with an Israeli Read More …

India: 5 children injured in crude bomb blast in West Bengal

Five children aged between 7 and 11 years were injured when a crude bomb went off in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Monday, a police officer said. The incident took place inside a mango garden at Mathpara in Jangipur around Read More …

India: Three policemen injured in IED explosion during training at Chhattisgarh

Three police constables suffered injuries after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded during a training exercise at a jungle warfare college in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, police said on June 17. The incident took place on Friday when the training session Read More …

Bangladesh: IED planted by separatist group KNF kills soldier

A soldier has died in the explosion of an improvised explosive device planted by the Kuki-Chin National Front, an ethnic separatist group. Army personnel were on their way to Painum Para to distribute drinkable water and oral rehydration packets. The Read More …

Philippines: 2 persons planted IED on lawyer’s vehicle in Davao

Police are looking for two individuals who might have planted an improvised explosive device on the vehicle of lawyer Alberto Magulta that exploded outside his office along Ecowest Drive in Ecoland on Thursday morning. Maj. Rose Aquilar, station commander of Read More …

Thailand: Four police, villager hurt in Yala roadside bombing

Four police officers providing protection for teachers and one villager were hurt in a roadside bomb attack in Raman district of Yala province on Thursday morning. The blast occurred on a local road at Na Toey village Moo 3 in Read More …

Kenya: 8 Officers killed as Al-Shabaab stage three attacks in Wajir, Garissa, Lamu

At least eight police officers were killed Tuesday in Bodhei at the border of Lamu and Garissa counties when the vehicle they were travelling in ran over an Improvised Explosive Device. The officers drawn from the special forces unit were Read More …

Mali: Second UN peacekeeper dies following attack in northern Timbuktu region

A second U.N. peacekeeper has died from injuries sustained during an attack in Mali’s northern Timbuktu region, an area where extremists continue to operate, the United Nations announced Monday. The attack Friday on a security patrol that was hit first Read More …

UK: Man appears in court accused of making ‘explosive substance for unlawful purpose’

A man has appeared in court charged with making an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose. David Prior is accused of making an explosive substance – namely ‘improvised explosive devices’ – between January 1 and June 2 this year. The Read More …

Kenya: At least seven officers injured in Mandera improvised explosive device attack

At least seven police officers sustained injuries when the vehicle they were traveling in ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Mandera South on Wednesday. The victims were injured to varying degrees, with some suffering injuries to the head, Read More …

Pennsylvania: Bomb squad removes explosive device after suspects try to blow up ATM in Olney

An attempted robbery at a variety store in Pennsylvania: ’s Olney section required the help of a bomb squad early Wednesday morning. An employee told police that three men entered the store on the 4700 block of North 5th Street Read More …

Somalia: Four dead, several wounded in bomb blast in Mogadishu

An explosion occurred last night within a house in the Shirkole neighborhood of the Hodan district in Mogadishu amid tight security measures. The explosion from an IED was aimed to assassinate the former commander of the Hodan District Police Station, Abdifitah Read More …

India: Two CRPF jawans injured in IED blast in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur

Two CRPF jawans were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur on Monday. The pressure IED was planted by Naxalites which caused the blast, police said. The incident took place at 10.30 am near Tekameta hill Read More …

Cameroon: Rapid Intervention Battalion Lieutenant killed by improvised explosive device in Mbengwi

Lieutenant Fabrice Mboutou, a dedicated officer of the Cameroonian army’s Rapid Intervention Battalion, died as a result of fatal injuries sustained in the detonation of a homemade bomb. This incident adds to the horrific death toll of military troops in Read More …

Pakistan: Eight kilogram bomb defused in Bannu

Security forces foiled a major terror bid in Bannu and the officials defused an eight-kilogram bomb in the vicinity of the Mandan police station on Thursday, ARY News reported. Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) personnel were called to the scene who Read More …

Pakistan: 5 Army personnel injured in explosion in North Waziristan

At least five Pakistani army forces and a child were injured in a roadside bomb explosion that took place in the Khadi area of North Waziristan on Tuesday, police said. According to local sources, the Pakistani army and security forces Read More …

Nigeria: National Drug Law Enforcement Agency seizes IEDs enroute bandits camp in Niger state

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has intercepted a consignment of 32 pieces of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), on its way to bandits’ camp in Niger. The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi said this in a Read More …

Mali: Three Bangladeshi peacekeepers injured in IED attack in Timbuktu Region

Three Bangladeshi peacekeepers were injured when a motorcade of a patrol team under Bangladesh Formed Police Unit (BANFPU-2) came under attack by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Mali on Sunday morning. The Armoured personnel Carrier (APC), which was carrying Read More …

Ireland: Armed gardai to be deployed amid violence fears over €1.7 million drug debt

Armed gardai are to be deployed amid fears of a major escalation in violence linked to a bitter feud centred on a €1.7 million drug debt. Officers in Tallaght, South Co Dublin, are on high alert following a spate of Read More …