Pakistan: Two security personnel martyred, four injured in IED blast in Khyber district

Two security personnel were martyred and four others injured after their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Bara area of district Khyber on Saturday. Security forces have launched a search operation in the area to arrest the Read More …

Iraq: IED explosion damages villagers’ vehicle in Erbil

An IED allegedly planted by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Erbil province damaged a vehicle carrying three villagers on Thursday morning, but did not result in any casualties, according to a local official speaking to Kurdistan 24. The Read More …

Nigeria: 755 Died, 1,321 Injured By IEDs in North East – UN

United Nations Mine Action Services (UNMAS) in collaboration with Centre for Social Cohesion Peace and Empowerment (CENSCOPE) has urged the federal government to expedite action to establish the Centre for Mine Action to enable the body to coordinate its activities Read More …

Somalia: African Union peacekeepers convoy hit by explosion in Mogadishu

A convoy of African Union peacekeepers has been hit by an explosion in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, on Monday. Reports suggest that at least three civilians who were in the vicinity lost their lives. According to a local security officer the Read More …

Syria: Roadside bomb hits bus in Deraa, wounding 16

Sixteen people were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Deraa governorate, Syrian state media reported on Monday. The attack reportedly occurred on a bridge at the Nasib border crossing with Jordan and was carried out against customs officials. Read Read More …

Philippines: CHR condemns NPA’s use of improvised explosives near school amid Masbate clash

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Monday said it “strongly condemns” the New People’s Army (NPA) members’ use of improvised explosive devices (IED), and even used it near a school, during a clash with government troops in Masbate. CHR, Read More …

Pakistan: TTP strikes in Lakki Marwat leave four police officers dead, six hurt

Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in a pair of attacks killed four police officers by targeting a police vehicle with a roadside bomb and wounded six in an attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa early Read More …

Colombia: Militants kill 9 soldiers in attack in Norte de Santander state

Militants in Colombia killed nine soldiers and wounded nine others in an attack early Wednesday on a military unit securing a northern pipeline, officials said, complicating efforts by the country’s new leftist president to negotiate a lasting peace. The assailants Read More …

Nigeria: Boko Haram bomb maker ‘dies after stepping on IED he planted for troops’

Awana Gaidam, a Boko Haram bomb maker, has reportedly died after “stepping on a self-made improvised explosive device” planted for Nigerian troops in Borno state. Allegedly, Awana was blown to pieces after his vehicle stepped on the IED along Njumia Read More …

Iraq: Spiking violence strains sectarian ties

“I only remember the explosion,” Maytham, 16, said from his hospital bed, his pale arms speckled brown by shrapnel. The attack took place earlier this month in the Shiite-majority village of Hazanieh. The force of the blast hurled the teenager Read More …

Yemen war eight years on: Child killed or injured by explosives every two days in 2022

A child in Yemen was killed or injured by explosives every two days in 2022, new research has found, as the country enters its ninth consecutive year of conflict. Yemen is littered with landmines and unexploded ordinance such as mortars, Read More …

Nigeria: Troops arrest ‘repentant insurgent’ for ‘facilitating’ terrorist attacks on soldiers

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have arrested Ba’ana Bdiya, a “repentant Boko Haram fighter” over a bomb attack that led to the deaths of some soldiers. Alegedly, ‘Manci’, gave out details on the movement of the troops to terrorists on Read More …

Twenty Years on, Iraq Bears Scars of US-led Invasion

In the lead up to the US-led invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, proponents of the war spoke of the Iraqi people as helpless victims of a dictatorial regime. Yet the Iraqi people paid the heaviest price of the Read More …

Three Young Nigerian Soldiers Killed After Patrol Vehicle Drives Over Bomb Planted By ISWAP Terrorists In Borno

Improvised explosive devices and ambushes continue to pose a major threat to soldiers fighting Boko Haram and ISWAP in Northern Nigeria. An exclusive report by SaharaReporters has revealed that three young personnel of the 152 Task Force Battalion, Banki town Read More …

Somalia: Suicide bombing kills 5, injures 11, including governor in Bardera

At least 5 people have been killed and 11 wounded, including a governor, in a suicide bombing in southwestern Somalia on Tuesday. “A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a guesthouse in Bardera where government officials were staying,” said Read More …

Pakistan: Attack on PTI MPA’s son leaves two dead

Two security guards of the son of Balochistan MPA Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind were killed, while one other sustained injuries on Saturday in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack that occurred in the Noshman area of Balochistan, the district administration Read More …