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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 …
Boko Haram fighters have increasingly turned to artificial intelligence tools to improve their operations, using chatbots to obtain technical guidance on attacks, weapons and battlefield tactics, according to a report by The New York Times on Friday. Citing a study Read More …
At least 17 people, including police personnel, were killed and more than two dozen others injured in a suicide attack at the residence of Shafiqur Rehman Mengal in Khuzdar. Mengal, who is also president of the Jhalawan Panel and a PPP Read More …
An Army captain and two other soldiers were reportedly killed when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded at Maciyan-Kyada Village in the Babanna Ward of Borgu Local Council of Niger State. A security source said two other soldiers sustained injuries in the Read More …
A civilian was killed and four others were injured, while a bridge on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route was destroyed in separate terrorist incidents in Bannu district, police officials said on Tuesday. They said that unidentified militants allegedly used Read More …
Unidentified armed men had allegedly planted three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on both sides of a bridge along the route. Two of the IEDs exploded as the convoy crossed the area, triggering a coordinated attack involving heavy gunfire from multiple Read More …
Two bombs exploded on Tuesday near a hotel in Damascus where French President Emmanuel Macron spent the night, wounding 18 people and overshadowing the first visit to Syria by a European Union head of state since Bashar al-Assad was toppled. Macron, whose Read More …
At least nine policemen, including two station house officers (SHOs), were martyred in a terrorist attack on a police post in Balochistan’s Ziarat district, officials said on Tuesday. Balochistan chief minister’s aide for media and political affairs, Shahid Rind, said Read More …
Three Nigerian soldiers were reportedly killed and several others injured after their patrol vehicle allegedly struck an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, near Babanna in Borgu Local Government Area. The incident was reported by conflict and security journalist Bakatsine in a Read More …
The war in Sudan threatens to spiral further as the strategically-important town of El Obeid continues to face “relentless” drone attacks by advancing paramilitary militias, the UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, said on Friday. Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Read More …
An explosive device was detonated Thursday in a popular cafe in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing at least nine people, Syria’s Health Ministry said. The explosion near the main courthouse complex left 20 others wounded, the ministry said as Read More …
Two soldiers were reportedly killed, while another sustained injuries in the early hours of Wednesday after an improvised explosive device (IED), allegedly planted by bandits, exploded along the Tidibale–Tagirke axis in Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The latest Read More …
Despite several high-profile attacks, Pakistan witnessed a decline in overall anti-state violence and related security incidents during June, according to the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS). According to PICSS — an Islamabad-based think tank that monitors terrorism, Read More …
Residents of Kurawa and neighbouring communities in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State have alleged that suspected bandits planted another improvised explosive device (IED) along the Sabon Birni–Kurawa road following fresh attacks on villages in the area. The Read More …
A militant rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the provincial headquarters of the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers in Karachi on Saturday, 27th June, triggering an intense exchange of gunfire with security forces, police and witnesses said. Ambulances rushed to the scene as Read More …
A Mi-17 helicopter used by junta for logistics operations was destroyed by a drone strike in Myaing Township, Magway Region, in central Myanmar, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Defence of the resistance-run interim Magway Federal Unit. Read More …
A man was killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) installed a motorcycle went off outside the residence of a local religious leader in the coastal town of Ormara, police said on Thursday. According to Ormara Station House Officer (SHO) Read More …
The Islamist terrorists that have been carrying out attacks against the districts of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado have been resorting to improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as a central element of their defense strategy. In a report, the Read More …