ISIL claims bus bombing in Iraq’s Karbala that killed 12

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack near the Iraqi city of Karbala on Friday, the group’s Amaq news agency said. Iraqi security services said on Friday that 12 people were killed and five wounded Read More …

Blast Kills Pakistani Army Officer, Soldier Near Afghan Border

Authorities in Pakistan said Friday an army major and a soldier were killed in a bomb explosion near the border with Afghanistan. The Pakistani military said the improvised explosive device (IED) was targeted at workers who were installing a border Read More …

Over 260 troops killed or injured in Naxal IED blasts, forces launch operations

Security forces deployed in the anti-Naxal combat grid have launched a massive operation to find out and defuse IEDs as over 260 troops have either been killed or injured in these blasts in the last about three years, officials said Read More …

Air Force foils Taliban bid to detonate Tanker truck and car packed with explosives

The security forces foiled Taliban bid to detonate a Tanker truck and car packed with explosives in South-eastern Paktiya province. The 203rd Thunder Corps said in a statement the Air Forces conducted an airstrike in Zurmat district which destroyed a Read More …

Turkish Army destroys seized explosives in Northern Iraq

Turkish security forces destroyed seized improvised explosive devices (IED) in northern Iraq Sunday, as part of the country’s ongoing counterterror Operation Claw-3. “In line with the successfully ongoing Operation Claw-3, a total of four IEDs were destroyed,” the Ministry of Read More …

Major Saudi Arabia oil facilities hit by Houthi drone strikes

Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a drone attack on the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia which is vital to global energy supplies. The attacks on the processor and a major oilfield, operated by Saudi Aramco, on early Saturday Read More …

3 killed in explosive attack in southern Somalia

At least three people including a local government official were killed on Saturday in a roadside blast along the road linking Bal’ad and Jowhar towns in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region. The spokesman of HirShabelle state Da’ud Haji Irro told journalists Read More …

Derry bomb and Strabane mortar signs of ‘changing types of engineering capability’

PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne has confirmed the ‘New IRA’ bomb discovered in Creggan this week was not the sole target of the operation that saw the deployment of 80 police officers to the estate on Monday. Chief Constable Byrne Read More …

TSA moving forward with airport screening system deployment

Several senators voiced concern over the Transportation Security Administration’s slow rollout of new airport screening technology at a hearing Wednesday. Commerce Committee members Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., questioned acting Deputy Administrator Patricia Cogswell about the Read More …

Abu Sayyaf bomb expert killed in clash in southern Philippines

Philippine security forces have killed a Abu Sayyaf terror group’s bomb expert in a clash in a remote village in southern Philippine province Sulu, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. Maj. Arvin Encinas, the spokesperson of the Philippine military’s Western Read More …

Air cargo CEOs among new US-UK aviation security group

A new aviation security advisory group with authority to handle highly classified information affecting the trans-Atlantic market will include air cargo executives from private industry. The Transatlantic Aviation Industry Roundtable (TAIR) will serve as a forum in which DHS, its Read More …

13 roadside bombs, landmines are defused in Afghanistan

The Afghan Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that, 13 roadside bombs and landmines in four provinces were exposed and defused by Afghan national security forces during a day. The ministry said in a statement that, engineering teams of Afghan National Read More …

Islamic State supporter plotted ‘lone wolf’ attack on barracks using drone to drop weapons, court told

An Isil supporter plotted a “lone wolf” attack on a military site by adapting drones to drop weapons, a court heard. Hisham Muhammad, 25, allegedly sketched designs and built prototypes to work out how they could be used to launch an attack on Read More …

Derry bomb: PSNI release images of IED that ‘would have killed’

Police have released images of an explosive device they believe was being made ready to kill officers. The bomb, along with a command wire, was found in the Creggan area of Derry during a security operation yesterday. The PSNI are describing the bomb as Read More …

Northern Ireland: Command Wire Initiated Improvised Explosive Device located in Creggan made safe

Assistant Chief Constable for District Policing Mark Hamilton said: “Following a large scale search operation in the Creggan area of Derry/Londonderry, police located a suspect device in a parked vehicle. “A clearance operation was commenced with a number of families Read More …

Foiled terrorist attacks on UK soil have risen to 22, says top officer

The UK’s most senior counter-terrorism officer has revealed that the number of attacks foiled since the Westminster atrocity has risen to 22, with seven relating to suspected far-right terror. Speaking at a conference in Israel, assistant commissioner Neil Basu disclosed Read More …