India: Police on alert after 5 timer bombs found in Barabanki

Even as the sleuths of Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS) are busy scanning the terror angle in the lone wolf attack on Gorakhnath temple last Sunday, the recovery of five bomb-like shells with digital timers near Safedabad railway station in Barabanki sent Read More …

Spain: National Police arrested a radicalized Spaniard in possession of bomb-making instructions

The National Police has arrested in Las Rozas (Madrid) a Spanish convert for his alleged participation in the crimes of self-indoctrination and terrorist self-training. The man had already been arrested in 2020 for similar crimes. Last March, a citizen informed Read More …

Mounties say thieves in southern Alberta used a homemade bomb to rob an ATM

RCMP say charges have been laid against three men in connection with a series of break-and-enters and ATM thefts where officials say the thieves used some unconventional methods to get into the machines. Officials say an investigation was launched on Read More …

Israel: 2 arrested over November explosion at Health Ministry office in Nazareth

Police announced Thursday that two people have been arrested in connection with an explosion at a Health Ministry office in the northern city of Nazareth last year, which caused damage but no injuries. The arrests were made in a joint Read More …

UK: Police release five arrested after homemade explosives found in York garden

Four people arrested as part of an investigation into homemade explosives in a village near York, have been released on conditional bail. A firth person was also arrested in connection with the investigation and has also been released on conditional Read More …

UK: Man who stockpiled bomb ingredients for ‘the apocalypse’ caught after explosion at Kingston home

A man who stockpiled bomb-making materials to prepare for an apocalypse was caught after an explosion in his home. Michael Pym-Nixson, 54, was “obsessed with the breakdown of society” and taught himself how to create weapons to defend himself, a Read More …

Crimea: Supporter of Ukrainian neo-Nazis possessing explosives apprehended in Alushta

FSB employees detained a supporter of Ukrainian neo-Nazis involved in the illicit possession of explosive devices and substances, the press service of the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol told journalists on Monday. “It Read More …

India: Crude bombs recovered & diffused by CID bomb squad in Birbhum, West Bengal

In the latest raid, the West Bengal Police Sunday recovered crude bombs in a pit in the Bogtui village, Rampurhat of Birbhum district, news agency ANI reported. Reportedly, bombs were recovered and diffused by the CID West Bengal Bomb Squad Read More …

Nigeria: Kaduna Police diffuse IED in Rigasa

The Kaduna Police Command said it on Thursday diffused an improvised Explosives’ Device in , Igabi Local Government Area of the Kaduna Metropolis. The police spokesperson Muhammed Jalige said the IED was planted in the area by yet to be Read More …

Ukraine: National Police and State Emergency Service seized and destroyed about 10,000 items of unexploded ordnance In Kyiv and Kyiv region

The Head of the National Police of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko said that emergency teams have been neutralising various types of unexploded ordnance every day. According to Klymenko “Only on the territory of Kyiv and Kyiv region, specialists of the National Read More …

Iraqi Security Forces destroyed an improvised explosive device lab, IEDs and ammunition in Nineveh, Saladin and Al Anbar Governorates

The Joint Operations Command forces alongside Popular Mobilization units seized and destroyed terrorist hideouts, an improvised explosive device lab, IEDs, bomb-making materials and ammunition including Katyusha rockets in joint operations in Nineveh, Saladin and Al Anbar Governorates. بعد أن شرعت Read More …

DHS OIG: The Office for Bombing Prevention Needs to Improve Its Management and Assessment of Capabilities to Counter Improvised Explosive Devices

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Office for Bombing Prevention (OBP) needs to improve its management of the Department of Homeland Security’s counter-improvised explosive devices (C-IED) efforts, as well as its assessment of national, regional, and state C-IED capabilities. Read More …

India: CISF conducts mock drill to counter terrorist acts

A multi-agency counter-terrorist mock drill was conducted by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at Dilli Haat INA metro station on Sunday to check the preparedness and response of various agencies. Under the mock drill a situation of IED (improvised Read More …

Maine man and two teenagers arrested for planning to attack Chicago mosque

An 18-year-old Maine man and two other teens, one in Chicago and another in Kentucky, conspired to attack a Chicago mosque with homemade explosives this month, new court documents reveal – until the FBI unraveled the plot. The teens, agents Read More …

Virginia: Authorities find bomb-making materials, partial IED, smoke bombs and firework mortars inside Henrico home during investigation

Authorities found bomb-making materials, a partial improvised explosive device, smoke bombs and firework mortars inside a Henrico County home last week, according to a search warrant. The investigation forced some nearby residents to leave their homes until the next day. Read More …

UK: Man who made explosive device in Blaenavon sent to hospital

A man who was found making an explosive device in Blaenavon has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Martin Johnson, 55, was arrested in April 2021 after the army’s bomb disposal unit were called to Trem-Y-Mynydd in Blaenavon. Johnson, Read More …

UK: Grandad makes deadly bomb in his house for bank job because he was ‘short of cash’

A man made a bomb and told his daughter he wanted to use it to steal from a bank. Martin Johnson appeared at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday and admitted making an improvised explosive device (IED). The 55-year-old, of Greenmeadow Read More …

The Netherlands: Man in camouflage arrested with grenade in his car in Zoetermeer

Residents of Schiebroekstraat in Zoetermeer were startled Saturday morning by a man in camouflage clothing banging on windows and doors and shouting. Police arrested him and subsequently found a rifle grenade in his car, Omroep West reports. Police urged residents Read More …