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The Taliban’s ruling council agreed Sunday to a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan, providing a window in which a peace agreement with the United States can be signed, officials from the insurgent group said. They didn’t say when it would begin. Read More …
A 21-year-old man is being held in custody for a week after being arrested by counter-terror police. The man, who has not been named by police, was detained on Saturday from a property in east London. He is suspected of Read More …
Homes have been evacuated and an Army explosive team has been called in following the arrest of a man over suspected weapons offences in Bristol. Weapons were found at a property on Shetland Road, Westbury-on-Trym, and a 50m (164ft) cordon Read More …
A car bomb outside a tax collection centre in Somalia has killed at least 79 people, according to officials. The blast struck a checkpoint during the morning rush hour at the start of the working week in the capital Mogadishu, in Read More …
Soldiers recovered Friday home-made explosives packed with bent nails and metal fragments with jagged edges in a hideout of the Dawlah Islamiya near the Liguasan Delta. The improvised explosive devices were found in an abandoned house in Barangay Manaulanan in Read More …
Two police officers from the Special Forces were killed while seven others sustained injuries after their vehicle hit an Improved Explosive Device in Wajir East Sub-County at around 4pm on Friday. A statement by the police said the attack happened Read More …
A Catholic cathedral and nearby radio station in the region of Cotabato on the island of Mindanao, Philippines were shaken by a grenade blast on Sunday that caused injury to at least 14 people. This was immediately followed by two Read More …
A car bomb explosion claimed the life of 6 Afghan soldiers in northern Balkh province on Thursday, Ministry of Defense said in a statement. According to a press statement published by the Ministry of Defense Affairs, a motor bomb exploded Read More …
An American service member was killed in combat Monday in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said, while the Taliban claimed they were behind a roadside bombing in northern Kunduz province that killed the U.S. soldier. The U.S. Army Special Operations Command Read More …
Explosions have rocked two towns and a city in the southern Philippines, wounding at least 17 people including soldiers, a military official said. A hand grenade was thrown into a military truck patrolling Cotabato City in the southern island of Read More …
A land mine explosion near the Pak Afghan border in Khyber agency Thursday evening resulted in the martyrdom of a soldier of the Pakistan Army while four others received serious injuries. Reports said the soldiers were busy fencing along the Read More …
On Sunday morning at around 9:45 am, three crude bombs exploded in front of Madhur Canteen in Dhaka University (DU) campus. “Three bombs exploded today morning at around 9:45 am in front of Madhur Canteen in the premises of Dhaka University. However, no one Read More …
Armed groups have used an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to drop a bomb on the positions of Syrian government forces in Idlib region, injuring two Syrian soldiers, Major General Yury Borenkov, chief of the Russian center for reconciliation of the conflicting Read More …
They are cheap, made from components that are easily obtained – and murderously effective. Security experts say that in the arsenal of jihadist groups whose insurgency is shaking the Sahel state of Burkina Faso, the improvised explosive device (IED) is Read More …
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion killed ten civilians including children in South-eastern Khost province of Afghanistan. Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior confirmed that the bomb went off at around 5 am local time in Alisher Read More …
An explosion injured at least 18 civilians in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan, the security officials said. Adelshah Adel, a spokesaman for the provincial police said an explosives-laden bicycle went off in Mazar-e Sharif city, the provincial capital of Balkh Read More …
Police on Monday were seeking the assailants behind an early morning explosion at a two-storey building in Peristeri, western Athens, that caused extensive damage but no injuries. The blast, which occured at 3.20 a.m., appears to have been provoked with Read More …
Three people, including a police officer, have been killed in a bomb explosion at a house in southern Nepal’s Dhanusha district. The bomb was planted at one Rajesh Shah’s house in Kshireshwarnath Municipality by unknown persons, police said. Police personnel Read More …
A man suspected of planting a bomb near the offices of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Houbi District (後壁) chapter in Tainan was arrested yesterday morning in Kaohsiung following an overnight standoff with police. Police said that the suspect, surnamed Read More …
Five suspected ISIS terrorists allegedly plotting attacks in the Russian capital have been detained at a major Moscow shopping mall with outlets of Marks & Spencer and Topshop. The suspects were held after a joint FSB security service and police operation in the Read More …