Strabane mortar bomb ‘callous attempt to kill police’

A mortar bomb left near a police station in County Tyrone was a “callous attempt to kill or maim” officers, the PSNI chief constable has said. The device was found by a resident on a wall near houses in Church Read More …

Dozens killed in two Burkina Faso attacks

At least 29 people were killed in two separate incidents in Burkina Faso’s troubled north on Sunday after a food convoy and a transport truck were attacked, the government said. One vehicle transporting people and goods “rode over an improvised Read More …

IDF strikes Hamas after drone ‘drops explosive’ across Gaza border

The explosive charge apparently damaged a military vehicle, but the IDF said no injuries were reported The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday said it struck a Hamas outpost in the Gaza Strip after an armed drone crossed over the Read More …

Taliban Claims Deadly Bomb Attack In Kabul; Two NATO Troops Killed

At least 12 people have been killed — including a U.S. and a Romanian soldier — and dozens more injured when a car bomb struck a checkpoint on September 5 in a neighborhood of Kabul that houses the embassies, government Read More …

One killed, nine injured in two IED blasts in Quetta

A volunteer of Chhipa Welfare Association died and nine others sustained injuries in two improvised explosive device (IED) blasts that occurred near Khezai Chowk of western bypass in Quetta late Thursday night. The injured included two senior police officers, a Read More …

ISIS, Weakened, Finds New Bombers: Cows Wearing Explosive Vests

The Islamic State has been reluctant to use humans to carry bombs because of the group’s reduced numbers, so it has tried out a new tactic: Bovine suicide bombers. Residents of Al Islah, Iraq, on Saturday said they had witnessed Read More …

Mines turn farms into killing fields in Iraq

One man lost his uncle. Another is mourning for two sons. Farmers and herders in Iraq’s Baiji say mines left by Daesh turned their beloved orchards into killing fields. The improvised explosive devices, planted by militants trying to fend off Read More …

Taliban claims massive VBIED explosion close to Green Village in Kabul city

The Taliban group claimed responsibility for a massive Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) explosion in Kabul city earlier tonight. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that one of the suicide bombers of the group detonated the VBIED close Read More …

2 policemen injured in ISIS attack targeting Bangladesh Minister in Dhaka

The bomb was thrown from the footbridge at the Science Lab intersection on Saturday night when the Minister was passing through the area, reports said. Two policemen were injured in a blast near the car of a Bangladeshi Minister in Read More …

Afghan forces claim upper hand after Taliban attack Kunduz city

Afghan security forces “repelled” a coordinated Taliban assault on the northern city of Kunduz on Saturday, President Ashraf Ghani said, even as the insurgents claimed to have captured important city buildings. The multi-pronged Taliban offensive on Kunduz, which has come Read More …

Hezbollah says explosives found in drone that crashed in Beirut

Terror group claims UAV recovered near its media headquarters was attempting an attack, carried 11-pound bomb The Hezbollah terror group on Tuesday said a drone that crashed in its Beirut stronghold early Sunday contained an explosive device weighing more than Read More …

Two East Jerusalem residents held for pipe bomb attack on cops

Suspects allegedly threw explosive at officers during late-night police raid in Issawiya; bomb failed to detonate, was neutralized by sappers Two residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya were arrested early Tuesday after allegedly attempting to carry out a Read More …

Army disarms IED on West Bank highway days after deadly terror bombing

Israeli security forces on Monday found and disarmed a small improvised explosive device that had been planted along a northern West Bank highway, the army said. The foiled roadside bombing came days after an IED that had been planted next Read More …

IDF said to arrest 3 Palestinians during hunt for terrorists behind bomb attack

Israeli troops reportedly confiscate cameras, raid homes in West Bank villages near site of bombing that killed Israeli teen Rina Shnerb Israeli security forces reportedly arrested three Palestinian men in the West Bank early Saturday as they searched for the Read More …

Afghan Special Forces storm the hideout of a key ISIS facilitator of suicide bombings

The Special Forces stormed the hideout of a key ISIS terrorist in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of Nangarhar province. The 201st Silab Corps said in a statement the National Directorate of Security (NDS) forces stormed the hideout of Abdul Read More …