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Due to security risks, the National Mine Action Authority has decided to restrict the planning of new humanitarian demining operations in six regions. This is stated in a press release from the Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian News Agency reports. The Read More …
Around 30 staff from the HALO Trust, the world’s largest humanitarian landmine clearance organisation, are among hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the frontline Yemeni city of Taiz, after Houthi fighters tightened their siege on the government-held enclave, cutting Read More …
A third oil tanker caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz after striking a sea mine while attempting to navigate an unauthorized route, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy announced. The IRGC Navy’s public relations office said on Sunday Read More …
The latest attack on the international airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh killed 12 people and injured over 300 others, civil aviation authorities said early Sunday, with some in critical condition. The attack was the deadliest in any Gulf Read More …
There is a growing amount of research on Ukrainian adaptation and how civilian, military and private organisations have reorganised during the war. Researchers and policymakers are seeking to understand how Ukraine has reinvented itself to meet the challenges of the Read More …
Amid unconfirmed reports that fully autonomous and AI-guided drones are now being used on the battlefield, UN chief António Guterres and the President of the Red Cross on Tuesday renewed their urgent call for stricter global controls, before it is 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 …
A new anthropogenic landscape is forming along the front line, saturated with everything possible: debris, mines, unexploded ordnance, and toxic waste. Fiber optics from drones are also on this list. Millions of kilometers of thin cables litter Ukrainian lands and Read More …
Hezbollah has launched a new weapon against northern Israel in the latest round of fighting: small drones controlled with fiber-optic cables the width of dental floss that avoid electronic detection. These drones — used widely in the war in Ukraine Read More …
Counter-terrorism investigators are examining three separate arson attacks in London against an Iranian dissident and Jewish targets amid fears the Iranian state may be behind them. The latest attack happened at about 8.30pm on Wednesday, outside the offices of Iran Read More …
A 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel will begin at midnight Israel time, US President Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social Post on Thursday. “Both sides want to see peace, and I believe that will happen, quickly!” Trump said. Read More …
Hezbollah has increasingly been using first-person-view (FPV) explosive suicide drones against Israeli forces in Lebanon, and while these technologies and tactics have been emerging in the Levant, they have long been established in the war between Ukraine and Russia. Drone Read More …
The U.S. military has launched operations to begin de-mining the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said on Saturday. Centcom said in a social media post highlighted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that two Navy guided-missile destroyers began “setting Read More …
The United States and Iran said Tuesday they have agreed to a two-week ceasefire in the war that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. President Donald Trump initially had said Iran proposed a “workable” 10-point plan that Read More …
Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior announced on Monday that explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams handled 21 reports over the past 24 hours involving falling debris on homes and vehicles because of defensive interception operations, resulting in some injuries but no human Read More …
One of the two drones that strayed into eastern Finland on Sunday morning likely exploded on impact, according to former Finnish Defence Forces research chief Jyri Kosola. Finnish authorities have not confirmed this theory. Kosola, who is also a retired Read More …
A stray drone coming from Russian airspace hit a chimney at the Auvere power station in Ida-Viru County in Estonia on Wednesday morning. “According to the current information, the drone was not aimed at Estonia,” press officer of the Estonian Read More …
The Israel Police confirmed on Wednesday that inspections of scenes of fallen projectiles in Kiryat Shmona found that for the first time since the war began, Hezbollah used cluster munitions, which landed in a residential neighborhood in the city. A Read More …
The Pentagon is expected to send thousands of soldiers from the U.S. Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, adding to a massive U.S. military buildup even as 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 …