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A suicide attack bid targeting a security forces’ vehicle was foiled on Tuesday in Janikhel Malikhel area of Bannu. However, two security personnel sustained injuries in the incident. According to local sources, a suicide attacker travelling in a rickshaw attempted Read More …
Three Iraqi soldiers, including an officer, were wounded on Tuesday when an improvised explosive device targeted a security force in an agricultural area in Daquq district, south of Kirkuk province in northern Iraq. A security source said the explosive device Read More …
Pakistan security forces have killed five militants during an intelligence-based operation in Balochistan. Security sources said the operation targeted Fitna al Hindustan militants in Panjgur. The operation took place in the Sarkini and Chedgi areas. It formed part of the Read More …
A car bomb exploded Saturday in southwestern Colombia, the army said, a day after conservative political neophyte Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as Colombia’s new president. The army alleged the attack was carried out by two dissident groups of the now-defunct Revolutionary Read More …
At least six people were injured, one of them critically, after the vehicle they were travelling in struck a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) in what is suspected to be an Al Shabaab attack in Mandera County. The incident occurred Read More …
Five suspected Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, terrorists, including an alleged medical officer and four Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, specialists, have reportedly been killed in a premature explosion while assembling explosives in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State. Read More …
Somalia’s Islamist insurgent group Al-Shabaab said it seized a strategic location in central Somalia on Sunday after intense fighting with government forces, a claim confirmed to AFP on Monday by locals in nearby areas. Somalia has been battling the Al-Shabaab insurgency for around two Read More …
Police have been placed on high alert across Balochistan following an attack on a police station and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) offices in Kharan by armed men who entered the city late on Saturday night. Sources said the attackers stormed the Read More …
At least 14 people, including police officials, were killed and at least 18 others injured in a suicide attack on Swat’s Kabal police station on Sunday, police and rescue officials said. According to the Swat District Police Officer (DPO) Umar Read More …
Two police personnel were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast near a police mobile vehicle at Pir Zakori Bridge in Peshawar on Sunday, police said. According to police officials, the blast occurred close to the police mobile vehicle, Read More …
Nine police officers, including a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), were killed and 28 others were injured after terrorists attacked the Khazina Banda checkpost in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu district late on Wednesday. A statement issued by KP Inspector General (IG) Read More …
Five security personnel have been killed following a roadside bomb attack in Arabia, Mandera County. The casualties include four officers from the elite Special Operations Group (SOG) and one National Police Reservist (NPR). According to local authorities, the officers were Read More …
Terrorist groups operating in Nigeria’s North-East and North-West are increasingly adapting their tactics by exploiting public infrastructure, with recent military and police operations reportedly uncovering evidence that components from solar street lights are being repurposed for improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Read More …
Two people were killed in a remote-controlled bomb explosion near Tali small dam in Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur tribal district on Saturday evening. According to police, unidentified persons had planted an improvised explosive device (IED) near the dam, falling in Read More …
Five volunteer rangers were killed and two civilians, including a 10 year old boy, were injured after armed attackers opened fire and threw pipe bombs at the Bukit Sami checkpoint in Narathiwat on July 22. The attack took place at about 6.45pm, according to Read More …
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have arrested suspected terrorist informants and logistics suppliers, received the surrender of a suspected member of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and destroyed an improvised explosive device (IED) during separate operations across Borno State. According Read More …
Troops of the 26 Task Force Brigade Garrison, Operation HADIN KAI, have discovered and safely disposed of an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by suspected terrorists in a farming area of the Sambisa Forest in Borno State. Security sources told Read More …
Two policemen were martyred and as many injured on Monday in what police suspect was an improvised explosive device blast in Tank district. Sources in the police told Dawn it appeared that an IED was used to target an armoured Read More …
An Assam Rifles personnel Mohammad Iqbal was killed and five others, including a civilian, were injured in what is being reported as an improvised explosive device (IED) blast near the Assam Rifles Training Centre and School, Shokhuvi, in Nagaland’s Chümoukedima Read More …
According to the police, the post in the Faqeeri Banr area of Hassan Khel had been abandoned and was lying vacant. Terrorists had detonated one IED inside the post and left another unexploded. “It was a vacant post and terrorists Read More …