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During the first quarter of 2026, Pakistan recorded a nearly 18% quarter-on-quarter decline in violence related to terrorism and counter-terrorism, along with a mix of promising and concerning trends in the country’s security landscape. The Center for Research and Security Read More …
Nine people, including four cops, were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in the Serai Naurang town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district on Wednesday, according to police. District police spokesperson Qudratullah Khan told Dawn that the explosion Read More …
Gas supply could not be restored to various parts of Quetta and other districts of Balochistan after unknown armed men blew up a main gas pipeline in the Western Bypass area of the provincial capital. “An 18-inch diameter main gas Read More …
At least two students were slightly injured after a bus they were travelling in was hit by a blast at Hagadera Refugee Camp, Garissa county. The bus belonging to Alinjugur Secondary School in Garissa County ran over an Improvised Explosive Read More …
In order to cause injuries to both peaceable civilians and administrative authorities who are striving to restore the rule of law, extreme terrorists provide financial assistance and instigate destructive activities, such as detonating explosive devices and remote blasting, against public Read More …
Eight persons have been confirmed dead after terrorists detonated an improvised explosive device, IED, along Luma Road in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State. According to reports, the explosive struck a moving vehicle on Monday. The terrorists also reportedly Read More …
At least eight suspected bandits have been killed by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) believed to have been planted for security forces along Lukope Road in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. According to a report, the incident occurred Read More …
In order to cause injuries to both civilians and administrative authorities who are striving to restore the rule of law, terrorists provide financial assistance and instigate destructive activities, such as detonating explosive devices and remote blasting, against public roads, railways, Read More …
Three suspected suicide bombings have killed at least 23 people and wounded 108 others in northeastern Nigeria, police said Tuesday. It was one of the deadliest attacks targeting the city of Maiduguri in recent history. Residents and emergency services earlier Read More …
In an extraordinary operation on Friday (March 13), law enforcement agencies arrested seven foreign nationals — six Ukrainian nationals and one from the United States — at three airports in the country on charges of conspiring to carry out terrorist Read More …
Two suspected commanders of the terror group Ansaru received weapons and explosives training in Libya, a Department of State Services (DSS) operative told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday. The officer said the suspects confessed to travelling abroad Read More …
The Nigerian Army has invited media organisations, civil society groups and other stakeholders for a verification tour as part of the moves to counter alleged propaganda by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over its recent Operation Eastern Sanity Read More …
Seven policemen, including a station house officer (SHO), were martyred in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack on a police vehicle in the Bettani subdivision of Lakki Marwat district on Friday. A police official said a squad from the Shadikhel Read More …
A roadside bomb in Bannang Sata district wounded two people Tuesday morning after spray-painted messages were found at three locations on nearby roads. At about 07:00, district authorities were informed by village heads that spray-painted messages had been found at Read More …
Air Base 401 at Tahoua Airport in Niger was the target of a terrorist attack on the night of Sunday, March 8, to Monday, March 9, 2026. Several assailants were neutralised and five suspects arrested, according to Niger security sources. Read More …
The troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation Hadin Kai, repelled coordinated attacks by suspected ISWAP fighters on Forward Operating Bases in Mayanti, Gajigana and Gajiram in Borno State between February 28 and March 1, 2026. In a Read More …
Assistant Commandant Ajay Mallick, Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) of CRPF, was injured in an IED blast during a search operation being conducted against the Maoists in the Saranda jungles of West Singhbhum on Sunday. Hours later, a jawan Read More …
Pakistani and Afghan border forces clashed on Thursday night after the Taliban launched what it called retaliatory strikes on Pakistani installations, sharply escalating tensions after days of cross-border hostilities. Afghan forces opened fire on posts in Pakistan’s mountainous northwest, sparking Read More …
A bomb disposal team affiliated with the Syrian army successfully neutralized a car bomb Wednesday in Aleppo, according to the Syrian Defense Ministry. In a statement released by the ministry’s Media and Communications Department, authorities said a vehicle loaded with Read More …
Burkina Faso has been one of the central battlegrounds in the Sahel’s expanding jihadist conflict for more than a decade. The al-Qaeda-affiliated coalition Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) is one of the main armed groups operating there, alongside Islamic Read More …