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The UK’s terror threat level has been raised from “substantial” to “severe”, meaning an attack is now judged to be “highly likely”. The move, confirmed by Home Secretary Priti Patel, follows an explosion outside a hospital in Liverpool on Sunday Read More …
An explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Remembrance Sunday has been declared a terror incident by police. A taxi exploded and was engulfed in flames just before 11:00 GMT at a drop-off zone near the entrance, killing the passenger and Read More …
One person has died and another has been injured in a car explosion and fire outside a hospital in Liverpool. Merseyside Police said there were reports of an explosion after a taxi pulled up at Liverpool Women’s Hospital just before Read More …
A man who made a pipe bomb that caused a residential street to be evacuated has been jailed for two years. Nottinghamshire Police said a man found the device in a ditch on Riverview in Church Laneham on 28 February. Read More …
Early in the afternoon on November 12, police were alerted to a possible improvised explosive device (IED) on the sidewalk on Marine Avenue between Duncan and Courtenay street. “In consultation with our explosive disposal unit (EDU), officers evacuated the block Read More …
A Co. Armagh man has admitted making a “blast-incendiary improvised” bomb. With Sean Fintan Burns standing in the dock of Craigavon Crown Court on Thursday, defence counsel Damien Halleron asked for him to be re-arraigned on three of the four Read More …
While the new member of the Tahoe-Douglas bomb squad comes with four legs and a tail, it’s what’s on the pointy end that makes him a critical member of the team. On Friday, Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District announced that Read More …
Police in Northern Ireland have arrested four people nearly two weeks after a bus was hijacked and set on fire in County Down. The force has said it believes the arson was carried out by loyalists from a local faction Read More …
An Arlington man already booked into jail is facing more charges after bomb squad technicians found a homemade explosive laboratory and underground bunker at his home. Deputies with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home in the 19300 Read More …
A Nokomis man is facing a slew of charges after deputies found him in possession with stolen explosives from the U.S. Army. A bomb technician with the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office testified that officers were called to a home on Read More …
An Iowa City man is facing multiple charges after authorities connected him to multiple firearms and shooting-related incidents in Iowa City and Coralville. KCRG reports Demtrick Byars, 19, admitted to being in possession of a rifle during the interview and Read More …
Explosives of over 250 kg have been recovered from an area along the border with Myanmar in Manipur, a border state where assembly election will be held next year, raising security concerns. Troops of the Assam Rifles recovered 243 improvised Read More …
The joint Anti-Terrorism taskforce and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence on Sunday arrested Yusuf Muwonge, a prime suspect in an explosion that rocked Swift bus in Lungala, Mpigi District last month killing one suspected suicide bomber on the spot. Muwonge, Read More …
An East Texas 20-year-old has pleaded guilty to providing detailed bombing instructions over the internet. The man allegedly wanted to target federal law enforcement agents with these potential bombs and was providing instructions online to undercover FBI agents, according to Read More …
Detectives with the Lacey Police Department and Washington State Patrol are investigating a homemade explosive device that had partially detonated in the woods near the 4800 block of Yelm Highway. Police were dispatched at around 1 p.m. Wednesday to the Read More …
A man is facing a possible life sentence after admitting possessing explosive substances. Michael Pym-Nixson came to the attention of police after paramedics visited his flat in Kingston Upon Thames, south-west London, and treated his hand for burn injuries on Read More …
The Anambra police command says locally-made improvised explosive devices (IED) have been recovered from suspected members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN). According to NAN, Aderemi Adeoye, deputy commissioner of police in charge of operations, said the explosives, which included Read More …
A South Florida man has been convicted of posting bomb-making instructions on the internet for people who he believed were Islamic terrorists. Court records show that 29-year-old Samuel Baptiste pleaded guilty Friday in Miami federal court to attempting to provide Read More …
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has prevented a terror attack plotted by a supporter of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization (outlawed in Russia) in the Stavropol Region, a source in the FSB Public Relations Centre told TASS. “The Russian Read More …
A 16-year-old schoolgirl who was allegedly caught with a ‘bomb-making video and instructions on how to build a homemade gun’ is to face trial on terrorism charges. The teenager, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is charged with five Read More …