Washington: Soap Lake Police Raid Residence of Possible Bomb Maker

Soap Lake Police conducted a search warrant on a home on Fir Street N Monday after receiving what they deemed credible reports of the resident building an improvised explosive device, or IED, to harm another person. A Tactical Response Team Read More …

Russia’s FSB discovers cache of weapons, explosives in Volgograd region

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has discovered an arms cache in the Volgograd region, the FSB said in a statement on Thursday. “Officers of the FSB branch in the Volgograd region discovered a cache of firearms and ammunition during an Read More …

British Columbia: Police destroy improvised explosive in Duncan

An RCMP explosive disposal team was called to Duncan last week after a suspected bomb was discovered during a traffic stop. North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP say that the explosive device was found on Friday night after Uniform Gang Enforcement Team officers Read More …

Prosecutor seeks 4-year jail sentence for attempted terror attack in Lithuanian capital

The public prosecutor is seeking a reduced four-year prison sentence for Gediminas Berzinskas, a 21-year-old man who admitted to attempting to commit a terror act in Vilnius last year. Vilnius Regional Court opened his case on Monday. Berzinskas has no Read More …

Namibia: Police Find 13 Explosives At Oshikoto School

The Namibian police have found 13 different explosives at Tsintsabis Combined School in Oshikoto region. The police made the discover after it embarked on a de-mining operation at three local schools in the region. The explosive division was requested by Read More …

Virginia: Officials find explosives in safe at Villages at Garst Creek

Officials say what was uncovered was not dynamite, but rather explosives that could have been cobbled together from fireworks. Investigators believe someone could have been trying to put those together with other materials that were found in the safe to Read More …

India: Arrested Islamic State Terrorist Abu Yusuf Khan Has Hyderabad Links

The Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested an ISIS operative Abu Yusuf Khan after a brief encounter near Ring Road between Karol Bagh and Dhaula Khan in Delhi on August 21. The police recovered two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), weighing Read More …

UK: Man charged with terrorism offences had IED ingredients

  A former Army employee charged with terrorism and explosive offences had the ingredients to make an improvised explosive device (IED), a court heard. Dean Morrice, 33, of Paulton, Somerset, was arrested under the Terrorism Act on 20 August and Read More …

Ireland: Gardaí and Army Bomb Disposal Unit remove suspicious device from premises in Ballinasloe

Galway Bay fm newsroom – A suspicious device found at a premises in Ballinasloe this afternoon has been deemed non-viable by army experts Gardaí and the Army Bomb Disposal Unit removed the suspicious device from the premises in Hymany Park Read More …

Pakistan: Three held with explosives in Charsadda

The police claimed on Wednesday to have arrested three terrorists and recovered explosives from their possession in Shabqadar area here on Wednesday. Officials said Luqman Khan, Bakht Rayan and Mohammad Taj had association with a banned organisation, and were planning Read More …

Afghanistan: ASF Foil Plotted Terrorist Attack on Muharram Rituals

Afghan Special Forces in an operation nabbed a group of nine people, including a woman, who plotted attacks on Muharram rituals in Police District 5 of the Kabul city Wednesday night, Ministry of Interior said in a statement. The operation Read More …

Delhi Police: Suspected IS operative had planned ‘lone wolf’ terror strike in a high footfall area

The Delhi Police on Saturday said they have arrested a 36-year-old suspected operative of the Islamic State. Police said the man had planned a “lone wolf” terror strike in a high footfall area in the city “using a high-intensity pressure Read More …

New IRA: Heathrow arrest part of anti-dissident republican operation

A man arrested at Heathrow Airport has become the 10th person detained as part of a major operation against dissident republicans in Northern Ireland. Detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) arrested the man on Saturday as part Read More …

UK: Bomb squad called in over fears of an explosive after Counter-terror police arrest 33-year-old man in Somerset

Counter-terrorism police descended on a sleepy village to arrest a man on suspicion of possessing a bomb. The 33-year-old man was arrested in the tiny village of Paulton, Somerset, as part of an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing South East Read More …

Ireland: Man in his 30s arrested in possession of explosives in Kilkenny

A man in his 30s was arrested in possession of explosives in Kilkenny. Gardai arrested the man at a property on Church Lane, Kilkenny at around 7pm on Friday night. Gardaí were alerted to unusual activity at the property and Read More …

Bangladesh: CTTC arrests five suspected Neo JMB men over Paltan bomb blast

Five suspected members of Neo JMB, an offshoot of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), have been arrested by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational (CTTC) unit of police in Sylhet over a bomb blast in Paltan. The identities of Read More …

California: Riverside County Sheriff hazardous device team remains on call 24 hours a day

If an unexploded or suspicious explosive device is found anywhere in Riverside County, one of eight highly trained sheriff’s deputies, day or night, can climb into their unmarked truck parked at home nearest the location and be at the scene, Read More …

DHS chief details attacks by rioters on law enforcement in Portland with sledgehammers, IEDs

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Thursday detailed to senators the assaults that federal law enforcement had been subjected to from rioters in Portland — saying officers had been attacked with weapons including sledgehammers and improvised explosive devices (IED). Read More …