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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) presents the 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA), a comprehensive report that provides a national-level perspective on the threats posed by deadly illicit drugs and the violent transnational criminal organizations responsible for producing the drugs Read More …
A bomb blast in insurgent-riven west Niger has killed at least eight workers at the Samira gold mine in the Tillaberi region, local sources told AFP on Tuesday. Located in the borderlands straddling Niger and fellow unrest-hit Sahel neighbours Mali Read More …
Three schoolboys were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Surani Sikandakhel Bala area of Bannu district on Monday. A police official said that unknown miscreants had planted an improvised explosive device along a road near a government high school Read More …
British police said on Tuesday they had arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of arson after counter-terrorism officers launched an investigation into three fires, including one at Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s private home. Police were called to reports of a Read More …
A 51-year-old Nanaimo man is facing multiple firearms-related charges after police say he was arrested with a loaded handgun and later found to have a pipe bomb and multiple firearms at home. James Newstead was arrested without incident the night Read More …
The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s sappers have found and destroyed more than 4,300 munitions in the border areas of the Kursk Region, the agency’s press service told TASS. “The Russian Emergencies Ministry continues to survey the territories and search for explosive Read More …
In central Virginia, it’s not uncommon to unearth relics from Civil War battles. But finding a 50mm French mortar dating to World War II hidden in your backyard is something else entirely. That’s what happened to Hunter Vap, a Marine Read More …
A bomb disposal unit was called to a petrol station after an explosion during an attempted theft at a cash machine. It happened between Sunday evening and Monday morning at Hedgeley Services, off the A697 at Powburn in Northumberland. It Read More …
HALO Trust Cambodia responded to an unusual Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) call-out over the weekend, when a farmer excavating his land in Battambang province’s Samlout district discovered a Mk81 bomb. The district is one of the most landmine contaminated areas Read More …
The United Nations has called for urgent de-escalation in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, as rival gunmen exchanged fire in the city’s southern districts after the killing of a powerful militia leader, with authorities imposing an emergency lockdown. The appeal early on Read More …
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Monday it would dissolve itself, in what would be a historic move after decades of conflict with Turkey that have killed tens of thousands of people. The militant group said in a statement Read More …
Coastal District police from the Haifa station, together with a police sapper, recently located an explosive device near gas cylinders on a criminal background in a residential building on Saadia Gaon Street in Haifa, and are currently working to neutralize Read More …
An improvised explosive device (IED) recovered during a counter-terror operation in Sector 39 on Thursday night has been safely defused by a bomb squad from the Indian Army’s Western Command, based in Chandimandir. The 2-kg device, believed to contain RDX, Read More …
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested two suspected members of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in sting operations in Sahiwal and its outskirts. In a raid conducted late Wednesday night near Village 58/GD, on the Faisalabad-Sahiwal Road in Noor Shah, Read More …
Army officers attended a scene along the Essex coast, after three unexploded bombs were discovered a day after the 80th anniversary of VE Day. A 100m cordon was secured around three unexploded WWII bombs in Leigh-on-Sea, after being discovered by Read More …
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Department of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) has finished delivering world-class Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) training to international partners. The International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) EOD Level 2 course was conducted at Hells Point Read More …
Officials with Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point said Friday that residents near the air station and its outlying airfields can expect multiple military training operations throughout May. Ground training will be conducted at Marine Outlying Field Atlantic, May 12-16 Read More …
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion in Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State on May 8, 2025, left five children injured, one of whom lost a hand. The explosion occurred around 1425hrs when the children unknowingly tampered with IED Read More …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), a member of the Commerce, Justice, and Science Subcommittee on Appropriations, participated in a hearing for the Trump Administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Budget Request for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Read More …
A Cambodia’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) expert team has found and safely removed another war-left US-made MK-82 aerial bomb in southern Kandal province, a mine clearance chief said late on Wednesday (May 7). Heng Ratana, director general of the Cambodian Read More …