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Four people were injured when a truck carrying bags of onions reportedly triggered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at Lingir Village, Guzamala Local Government Area, Borno State, on Wednesday. The truck was en route from Baga Village, Kukawa LGA, to Read More …
As part of the Demine Forum 2025, the Ministry of Economy and Environment presented the Ukrainian platform GRIT (Ground Rehabilitation through Innovation Technologies) for analysing territories for demining. Its task is to determine demining priorities based on economic viability, the Read More …
Cambodia requires at least $150 million to complete humanitarian demining operations and reach its goal of becoming mine-free by 2030, Senior Minister Ly Thuch, First Vice-President of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), told Khmer Times on Read More …
Gardaí attached to the Limerick Divisional Drugs Unit conducted a search operation at two residential properties in Talbot Avenue, Prospect, Limerick on Monday afternoon, December 8th, 2025. The operation led to the seizure of drugs and drug paraphernalia with an Read More …
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) have signed an agreement worth $10 million to support rural communities affected by potential contamination of agricultural land with mines and explosive remnants Read More …
The explosion of a car bomb outside a community police station in the town of Coahuayana, Michoacán, on Saturday killed six people, including at least three police officers. Michoacán Attorney General Carlos Torres Piña reported on Sunday that the death Read More …
A call to a domestic assault has today led to the conviction of an 18-year-old man, who had spent years manufacturing a collection of weapons from his bedroom. Today, Sakhile Ntsele, 18 (10.01.2007) of Wandsworth Road, SW8 has been convicted Read More …
The integration of unmanned systems into crime is already here, and we have to ask ourselves how criminals and terrorists might use drones and robots some years from now. Just as the internet and smartphones presented significant opportunities as well Read More …
A number of homes were evacuated following the discovery of a pipe-bomb in West Belfast. Emergency services are currently at the scene in the Areema Drive area of Dunmurry. A pSNI spokesperson said: “Our officers attended the scene, along with Read More …
Worldwide, the demand for advanced equipment that provides protection against chemical and biological weapons is growing. Despite international treaties prohibiting the development, production and use of such weapons, incidents involving their deployment continue to occur. TNO’s Defence, Safety & Security Read More …
After more than two weeks in captivity, 100 students kidnapped from their school in Nigeria have been released. On November 21, more than 300 hundred people, most of them students, were abducted from St Mary’s School in Papiri, in northern Read More …
Thailand launched air strikes on its neighbour Cambodia today, the Thai army said, with both sides trading blame for the latest eruption of fighting on their disputed border which killed a Thai soldier. After Cambodian troops fired on Thai forces Read More …
Security forces foiled an attempt to target Jaffar Express by recovering a bomb planted on a railway track in Nasirabad district on Saturday. Police officials said unidentified individuals had planted an improvised explosive device (IED) on the track in the Read More …
The Twenty-Second Meeting of State Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (Ottawa Convention) held in Geneva, Switzerland on Dec. 1-5, officially approved Cambodia’s request for a third extension — covering the period 2026-2030 — to complete the clearance and Read More …
ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M. — Airmen from the 377th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight partnered with the Pueblo of Isleta in October to safely identify and neutralize 115, WWII and Cold War-era military munitions discovered on tribal land. This marks a significant Read More …
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED), suspected to have been planted in the bush by Boko Haram terrorists, has killed four children in a border community of Banki in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. According to the Police Command, Read More …
Mines and unexploded ordnance are an inevitable consequence of armed conflict. More than 60 countries worldwide, including Armenia, must clear their territories of these hazards. In total, over 43 million square meters in Armenia require demining. This situation stems from Read More …
The FBI arrested a Virginia man on Thursday in its almost five-year investigation into who planted pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the 2021 US Capitol riot. The bureau believes the man, 30-year-old Read More …
Myanmar has for the second consecutive year recorded the world’s highest number of landmine casualties (2,029), which is double the total reported for the preceding year. Syria had the second highest number of casualties (1,015), followed by Afghanistan (624) and Read More …
A decomposed body and several explosives were discovered inside a home following an hours-long standoff with a man who had barricaded himself in the residence and exchanged gunfire with law enforcement in Connecticut, according to authorities. Stamford Police responded to Read More …