Pakistan: Three die in Kech explosion

A roadside explosion killed three people in Balochistan’s Kech district on Sunday, Makran Division Commissioner Saeed Ahmed Umrani said. According to Umrani, unidentified terrorists targeted a vehicle through an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Hoshap tehsil of the district. Read More …

Drone, explosive attacks target US forces across Iraq

U.S. forces were targeted in three attacks in Iraq on Thursday but suffered no casualties, a U.S. military official and security sources said, in the most widespread single day of strikes on U.S. assets since the Israel-Hamas conflict started. There Read More …

Kenya: Two Al-Shabaab militants killed, others injured while planting explosives in Garissa

Two Al-Shabaab terrorists have died as several others sustained serious injuries following an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion along Amuma-Ruqa Road in Garissa County. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), in a statement on Tuesday, termed the morning incident as Read More …

Yemen: Explosion kills 5 soldiers during patrol

An improvised explosive device (IED) detonated during a Yemeni military patrol in the turbulent southern province of Abyan, killing at least five soldiers. The local security official said on condition of anonymity that the attack took place on Sunday night Read More …

11 Somali Soldiers Killed as AU Forces Start Second Round of Troop Drawdown

Eleven Somali government soldiers were killed and three others injured in a roadside explosion Monday in the southwestern Gedo region, officials said, as the African Union peacekeeping force began a second round of troop withdrawals. The explosion targeted a convoy Read More …

Kenya: At least four people killed in IED explosion in Mandera

At least four civilians were on Saturday killed when their vehicle ran over an Improvised Explosive Device in Qurqura area, Elwak, Mandera County. Reports indicate that three died on the spot while one succumbed to the injuries receiving medical attention Read More …

Nigeria: Commuters injured, one killed ‘after running into IED planted by ISWAP in Borno

A commercial vehicle travelling on the Kareto road in Mobbar LGA of Borno exploded after running into a roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Wednesday. The IED was believed to have been laid for the troops of 5 brigade Operation Read More …

Kenya: Two place officers killed, six injured in IED attack in Mandera

At least two police officers were Sunday killed while six others were injured when a vehicle they were traveling in was hit by a bomb in Arabia area, Mandera county. The officers from Kenya Police Quick Response Unit were on Read More …

Mexican army says drug cartels are increasing their use of roadside bombs

The Mexican army said Tuesday that drug cartels have increased their use of roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices this year, with 42 soldiers, police and suspects wounded by IEDs so far in 2023, up from 16 in 2022. The Read More …

Pakistan: Militant attack kills 11 labourers in Waziristan

Eleven labourers were killed in a militant attack in Northwestern Pakistan, caretaker prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said on Sunday. Security and police officials in northern Khyber Pakhtunkwa province said a suspected improvised explosive device detonated, tearing through a truck carrying Read More …

Syria: SAMA TV reporter and three Army personnel martyred in Daraa

SANA-SAMA TV reporter, Firas al-Ahmad, and three members of the army forces were martyred when an explosive device planted by terrorists went off on their way back to al-Shayyiah in Daraa countryside. That was after combing the border with Jordan Read More …

Somalia: Roadside explosion kills at least six in Lower Shabelle province

At least six people were killed and 12 others were injured when a roadside explosion hit a minibus in southern Somalia on Wednesday morning, the local governor says. Mohamed Ibrahim Barre, the governor of the Lower Shabelle region, told VOA Read More …

Syria: Two SDF fighters killed by explosion in Raqqa

According to a SOHR report, two members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed, and one was injured in Raqqa. The two SDF combatants were killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) that suspected ISIS militants had planted on Read More …

Somalia: Bomb blast wounds one person in Mogadishu

A witness says an explosion occurred in the Wadajir district of Mogadishu early on Monday Tuesday morning. The explosion from a landmine was targeted at a vehicle carrying soldiers of the government army that was passing through the Buulo Hubey Read More …

‘Vigilance is key’: Al Shabaab threat rising in Kenya’s northeast

In Kenya’s rural northeast, roadside bombs and beheadings that killed two dozen people last month appear to be part of a troubling escalation of violence by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists, analysts say. A regional economic powerhouse and a popular tourist draw, Kenya Read More …

Mexico: Roadway bombs planted by drug cartel in Jalisco kill 4 police officers, 2 civilians

A drug cartel set off a coordinated series of seven roadway bombs in western Mexico that killed four police officers and two civilians, officials said Wednesday. The governor of Jalisco state said the explosions were “a trap” set by the Read More …

Somalia: At least 8 killed in landmine explosion in Hirshabelle

At least eight people including six children were killed on Sunday when the modified auto-rickshaw they were travelling in struck a landmine, said local officials. The incident took place between the village of Jicibow and town of Bulaburde in Hirshabelle Read More …

Nigeria: Terrorists’ IED kills six in Borno

An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by terrorists on the Maiduguri/Bama road has killed six occupants of a commercial vehicle in Borno State. Five passengers and the driver were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in ran over the 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 …