Syria: Six killed, 23 others injured in terrorist explosion in Damascus countryside

Six citizens were killed Thursday and nearly 23 others were injured in a terrorist explosion that targeted Assayida Zainab town in Damascus countryside. A motorcycle was detonated near a taxi of SABA at Kou Sudan street in Sayyida Zainab. Read Read More …

Yemen: 2 soldiers killed in blast in Taiz province

Two soldiers of Yemen’s government forces were killed on Tuesday in a bomb blast in the southwestern province of Taiz, a military official told Xinhua. The official, who asked to remain anonymous, said that seven others were also injured when Read More …

Israeli wounded by IED shrapnel in the West Bank, evacuated to hospital

An Israeli was wounded by an IED in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank. The man was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, according to Israel’s Rescue Without Borders. On Thursday night, an Israeli man was Read More …

Lebanon Is Still Littered With Land Mines

On a spring morning near the town of Aarab el-Louaizeh in southern Lebanon, 39-year-old Zeinab Hashem sported an unconventional outfit. In a heavy vest, helmet, and visor that chafed against her skin in the warm weather, Hashem slowly swung a Read More …

Pakistan, Iran to work together to stop militant border attacks

The top military leadership of Pakistan and neighboring Iran agreed to step up cooperation and intelligence sharing and take “effective actions” to prevent attacks by separatist militants along their porous border, Pakistani officials said Monday. The agreement was reached during Read More …

Iran: Four Border Guards Wounded In Car Explosion Near Pakistan

Four border guards were injured in a booby trap car bomb near the Mirjaveh border with Pakistan in Iran’s Baluch populated southeast. According to state news agency IRNA, the condition of three of the injured is stable, but one was Read More …

Israel Police find improvised pipe bomb during a car search

Police officers found an improvised pipe bomb during a car search in the Israeli-Arab town, Jisr e-Zarka, according to the Israel Police Spokesperson’s Unit. Police subsequently arrested three suspects. Read more… Source: The Jerusalem Post  

Yemen: Two demining workers killed in Saada explosion

Two Yemeni demining workers have been killed while attempting to disarm stacked landmines laid by the Iran-backed Houthis in the northern province of Saada. Casualties monitoring group, the Yemeni Landmine Records, said the workers were operating as part of a Read More …

Syria: US says it killed ISIL leader Osama al-Muhajer in drone strike

The United States military says it has killed a leader of the ISIL (ISIS) group in eastern Syria in a drone strike. The strike on Friday resulted in the death of Osama al-Muhajer, the US Central Command said in a Read More …

Yemen: A citizen was martyred in a cluster bomb explosion in Sana’a province

The Executive Center for Mine Action has announced that the citizen was martyred due to a cluster bomb explosion from the remnants of the aggression in Nihm district of Sana’a province, according to a brief statement released on Friday. Read Read More …

Israel: Police footage shows moment troops targeted by Jenin roadside bomb

Police on Friday published footage from an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin earlier this week, during which Israeli troops were targeted by a large roadside bomb. The explosive device heavily damaged a Panther armored personnel carrier (APC) Read More …

Iraq launches strategy for mine action

According to international and local statistics and reports, Iraq is classified as the most contaminated country with mines and unexploded ordnance, which claim many Iraqi lives or cause them permanent disabilities and are spread as a result of the wars Read More …

Yemen: Two military staff killed in al-Qaeda bombing attack in southern Abyan province

Two Yemeni military staff were killed on Thursday in a bombing attack carried out by the militants of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda branch in the country’s southern province of Abyan. The incident occurred when the al-Qaeda militants planted an improvised explosive Read More …

Israel: 8 IDF soldiers wounded in Jenin gun battle, armored vehicle bombed

Eight IDF soldiers were wounded in the terrorist hotbed of Jenin on Monday after an arrest operation turned into a shootout that lasted nearly eight hours. The forces were ambushed by gunfire as they began to leave, with an Israeli Read More …

Iraq: Demining agency clears a minefield in Soran independent administration

The General Directorate of the Iraqi Kurdistan Mine Action Agency (MAA) in Erbil on Wednesday announced in a statement that they had defused a number of mines in the Sidekan district of the Soran independent administration. The statement added that Read More …

Lebanon: Chinese peacekeeping engineering contingent to clears eight minefields

BEIJING, June 12 — The handover ceremony for a new batch of minefields cleared by the Chinese peacekeepers was held near the “Blue Line” on the Lebanon-Israel border. The staff of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Command, Read More …

Yemen: Explosive Devices Cause 121 Casualties in Q1

There are millions of landmines and unexploded ordnance scattered across the country, and these weapons will continue to kill and maim civilians for years to come. On Saturday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) informed Read More …