Peru: Explosion in Trujillo injures 10 people and damages 25 homes

An explosion on a street in a northern Peruvian region plagued by organized crime injured at least 10 people and damaged 25 homes, authorities said Friday. Interior Minister Carlos Malaver said the Thursday night blast in the city of Trujillo Read More …

New York: Guard Explosive Ordnance Disposal Soldiers from Four States Unite for Training

CAMP DAWSON AIR FORCE RESERVE STATION, W.Va. – Members of the New York Army National Guard’s 501st Ordnance Battalion, an explosive ordnance disposal, or EOD, headquarters, recently ran a training event for 142 Soldiers from four different states at Camp Read More …

Pakistan: Six police officers killed, 8 injured in multiple attacks on police checkpoints in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

At least six police officials were martyred and another eight were left injured as militants attacked police checkpoints and patrols across seven districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, including Peshawar, Upper Dir and Lower Dir, police said on Read More …

UK continues support for mine clearance in Syria

The UK has stressed its continued support for efforts to clear Syrian territory of mines. The British envoy for Syria, Ann Snow, warned in a post on X platform that “Syria is set to record the highest number of civilian Read More …

UN Syria Commission finds March coastal violence was widespread and systematic

GENEVA – The UN Syria Commission of Inquiry today published a report on the wave of violence that engulfed coastal and western central Syria from January, finding that acts that may amount to war crimes were committed. The violence – Read More …

Fort Leonard Wood EOD Soldiers train with local law enforcement agencies

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Fort Leonard Wood Soldiers with the 763rd Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) trained with local law enforcement professionals Aug. 5 to hone their skills and share their expertise during a homeland defense response exercise. “This training Read More …

British Columbia: RCMP and Nelson police safely dispose of improvised explosive device

A live improvised explosive device (IED) was disposed of in Nelson earlier today after a city youth unwittingly brought it back from a recent visit to Trail. On Wednesday afternoon the RCMP explosives disposal unit (EDU) attended the scene — Read More …

UK: Bomb disposal team carries out controlled explosion in Surrey

A bomb disposal team has carried out a controlled explosion after a suspicious device was found along a Surrey road. Whyteleafe Hill was closed on Tuesday (August 12) after an unexploded device was discovered at a building site. Officers were Read More …

Kentucky: Blue Grass Army Depot chemical weapons plant to be demolished next summer

A safer era for Madison County and the region is just three months away, according to the governor’s top man for overseeing the destruction of chemical weapons previously stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot. Craig Williams, a Berea resident Read More …

Indonesia: Suspected 400-Kg Dutch bomb found in Yogyakarta

Police in Sleman, Yogyakarta, have identified a suspected 400-kilogram wartime aerial bomb, likely a remnant from World War II, prompting an evacuation and traffic closures ahead of its planned disposal on Tuesday morning. Sleman Police Chief Edy Setianto Erning Wibowo Read More …

Belgium: Controlled explosion carried out after children find WWII bomb in field

Two children have found an old bomb while out with a metal detector. The bomb disposal unit Dovo checked the American artillery bomb from the Second World War and detonated it. Ferre and Febe found the shell with their metal Read More …

Colorado Springs police searching home connected to incendiary device found during traffic stop

Police in Colorado Springs were searching a home on the east side of the city Monday morning tied to an incendiary device found during a traffic stop last week. Last Thursday, the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) said Anthony Lopez Read More …

Thai military clears 384 munitions from Cambodian attacks

The Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters has reported that between August 1 and 9, 2025, the Thailand Mine Action Centre (TMAC) deployed 15 operational units, working alongside Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams, to support the Suranaree Task Force and Provincial Read More …

Pakistan: Peshawar-bound Jaffar Express hit with IED blast

A blast targeted the Jaffar Express on Sunday near Spezand in Dasht Tehsil of Mastung district, damaging its locomotive and several coaches, officials confirmed. According to Levies authorities, an explosive device planted on the railway track went off as the Read More …

Iraq: More than 600 Shia pilgrims hospitalised due to chlorine gas leak

More than 600 Shia pilgrims in Iraq have been briefly hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station, according to authorities. The incident took place overnight on the route between Read More …

Pakistan: Two more bridges blown up in Waziristan

Unidentified terrorists blew up two more bridges on Azam Warsak Road in Birmal tehsil of Lower South Waziristan district on Saturday. It was the third such incident in the past 24 hours as the security situation further deteriorated in the Read More …

Ukraine: Unexploded aerial bomb found during agricultural work destroyed in Kharkiv region

Pyrotechnicians from the State Emergency Service destroyed an unexploded aerial bomb that farmers found while working near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. According to Ukrinform, the Interregional Center for Humanitarian Demining and Rapid Response reported this on Facebook. “Agricultural work Read More …

Lebanon: Hezbollah ammunition depot explosion kills 6 soldiers south of Litani

Six Lebanese army soldiers were killed and others wounded in an explosion while inspecting a weapons depot in Majdal Zoun and Wadi Zibqin, Tyre. The victims include four members from the 5th Infantry Brigade and two from the Engineering Regiment. Read More …

California: Evacuation warnings issued in Weaverville after pipe bomb was found in public forest

Authorities in Trinity County located a homemade pipe bomb left in a public forest Wednesday, officials announced. A community member in the small Northern California town of Weaverville reported a “suspicious item” in the Community Forest south of downtown on Read More …

Northern Ireland: Man arrested after ‘multiple viable devices discovered’ in Co Tyrone

One man, aged in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances as residents were forced to spend the night away from their homes after a security alert in Co Tyrone. Emergency services were called to Read More …