California: Police uncover 100 pounds of explosives at Bay Area business

When police responded to a report of a burglary at a San Jose business Monday, they stumbled across something they weren’t expecting to find — a bomb-making operation, officials said. The San Jose Police Department said in a news release Read More …

Solomon Islands: EOD welcomes eight newly graduated IMAS level 3 operators

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) has welcomed eight police officers who have completed and graduated with International Mine Action Standard (IMAS) level 3 certificate at the RSIPF EOD Range Faculty, Hells Point on Read More …

North Carolina: Police confirm 2 pipe bomb devices found at Hickory church, suspect arrested

The Hickory Police Department confirmed two “pipe bomb-type” devices were found at a church in Hickory on Sunday afternoon and have identified the suspect believed to be responsible. The suspect has since been arrested and several law enforcement agencies were Read More …

Russia: Detainee for attempt on writer Prilepin’s life charged with terrorism

Russia’s investigative committee has charged Alexander Permyakov, detained for an attempt on the life of the writer Zakhar Prilepin, with terrorism and is petitioning for his arrest, the committee’s press service told reporters on Monday. “The Main Investigation Department of Read More …

Belgium police arrest Iraqi suspected of al-Qaeda car bombing in Baghdad

Belgium police have arrested an Iraqi immigrant suspected of belonging to an al-Qaeda cell that carried out deadly car bombings in Baghdad in 2009-2010, prosecutors said Friday. The man, identified by the initials O.Y.T., born in 1979, was detained on Read More …

Malaysian police discover three homemade pipe bombs at Jalan Klang Lama

After an explosion at a shop in Jalan Klang Lama, the police discovered three homemade bombs made from modified plastic (PVC) pipes. Brickfields district police chief Amihizam Shukor said police received a report on the explosion at about 6am via Read More …

UK: Teenage ‘terrorist’ searched for bomb making ingredients

A teenager who planned to blow up a police station to start a race war has gone on trial charged with a terrorism offence. Luke Skelton shared his far-right extremist views on social media platforms in the months leading up Read More …

France: Police officer injured by petrol bomb as May Day protests turn violent

A police officer was seriously injured during May Day protests as unions in France rallied against new laws to raise the country’s pension age. More than 60 people have been arrested in clashes in Paris, Lyon and Nantes as a Read More …

Republic of Georgia: One arrested for attempted Uranium sale

As a result of operational and search measures, employees of the counterintelligence department of the State Security Service of Georgia/SSSG, together with the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, arrested a person for an attempt to illegally sell radioactive materials. The detainee Read More …

The Netherlands: Police find explosives, weapons and ammunition during search of a house in Oisterwijk

The police found Explosives, weapons and ammunition during a search of a house on the Haarenseweg in Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, on Saturday evening. According to the police, there was no immediate danger to the surrounding area. A police spokesperson could not Read More …

Illinois: Police, FBI investigating after explosive device found in Marissa trailer park

Marissa Police, a state bomb squad and the FBI are investigating after a police officer found an explosive device in a Marissa trailer park early Saturday. Authorities closed roads and evacuated some trailers at the South Marissa Trailer Park as Read More …

Ukraine: ‘Traitor’ police chief who defected to Russia killed in explosion in Melitopol

A police officer who defected to Russia was killed in an explosion in the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol on Thursday. Oleksandr Mishchenko succumbed to his grievous injuries after an improvised device exploded at the entrance to the block where Read More …

Pakistan: Inspector loses life in Khuzdar blast

The inspector lost his life on the spot as his vehicle was completely destroyed in the attack. A huge contingent of police reached the spot and shifted the dead body to the district headquarters hospital Khuzdar. Senior administration and police Read More …

Kansas: Wichita police bomb squad responds after homemade pipe bomb is found in empty lot

A homemade pipe bomb found in an empty lot in Newton drew response from both Newton and Wichita police. A Newton police offer responded to a call of a “suspicious device” around 6:15 p.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Read More …

Pakistan: Seven killed, 44 wounded In blasts inside police station in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in an attack inside a counter-terrorism police station in Pakistan on Monday, causing the building to collapse, officials said. Numerous blasts ripped through the building in Kabal town in northwestern Khyber Read More …

UK: Glasgow man caught with three explosive devices under seat of car while out driving

A man who was caught with three improvised explosive devices under the driver’s seat of his car when police stopped the vehicle in Glasgow’s east end has been jailed for 40 months. James Curran claimed that he had drawn inspiration Read More …