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Despite being one of the sensitive airports, the Islamabad International Airport (IIA) does not have bomb detection and bomb disposal squads. According to sources, intelligence brought the issue into the notice of Regional Police Officer Sohail Habib Tajik last month. Read More …
So how did Salman and Hashem Abedi come to attack the city they’d grown up in by bombing an Ariana Grande concert in 2017? The trial of Hashem Abedi has given us many of the details but still not the Read More …
ADELPHI, Md. — Imagine a small aerial drone navigating a field with electrical power lines. How will it see them? More importantly how will it avoid this significant obstacle in its flight path? At the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Read More …
The incident happened in PD5 of Kabul city after a magnetic mine placed on Mr Amin’s vehicle exploded. His driver was also wounded, the statement said. This was one of two separate magnetic mine blasts in Kabul city on Wednesday Read More …
At least two security force personnel affiliated with the National Directorate of Security (NDS) were killed, and 11 people–including civilians–were wounded in a roadside mine blast in northern Baghlan province, a security source said. The incident happened around10:00am local time Read More …
An improvised explosive device was uncovered by Cameroonian security forces in a government building in the capital Yaounde, and it was deactivated with no casualties, police said. The device was planted Monday morning in the Ministry of Public Service and Read More …
Israel Police sent another bomb squad on Sunday to neutralize an improvised explosive device (IED) that floated its way to the yard of a home in the southern Israeli city of Netivot, in the western Negev. The homemade bomb was Read More …
Two bomb blasts occurred in Balochistan’s Nushki and Mastung district on Thursday. The target of the attack in Nushki was a vehicle of the Frontier Corps, but no one was injured in the attack. The blast in Mastung, however, left Read More …
A man in his 30s was arrested in possession of explosives in Kilkenny. Gardai arrested the man at a property on Church Lane, Kilkenny at around 7pm on Friday night. Gardaí were alerted to unusual activity at the property and Read More …
KABUL Afghanistan – Warfighters operating in combat zones are continuously confronted with adversarial improvised threat technologies designed to inflict harm and disrupt operations. Over time, these nontraditional attacks have taken a heavy toll on mission success rates and weighed down Read More …
An investigation is underway into a series of mysterious explosive noises in Surrey. From July 19 to August 9, Surrey RCMP received reports about loud bangs coming from a green-space area near 4th Avenue and 171st Street in Surrey. Witnesses Read More …
A man was arrested after police found more than two dozen pipe bombs and explosives in Boynton Beach Wednesday. Gregory Samuel Haasze, 34, was arrested on 26 counts of making, possessing or placing a destructive device. Haasze was arrested after Read More …
Two soldiers were killed and three others injured in a pair of roadside bombings Thursday in Thailand’s insurgency-stricken Deep South as they escorted teachers and students to schools for the start of the academic year, authorities said. Officials blamed separatist Read More …
A group’s attempt at revenge for stolen drugs has left an innocent 55-year-old woman “traumatised” and six men facing up to 25 years in prison after an improvised explosive device was detonated on the balcony of a Canterbury home in Read More …
Two Ukrainian servicemen hit an unidentified explosive device in the Joint Forces Operation zone in Donbas, and one of them was killed in the explosion, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has reported. “Today, on August 13, two Joint Forces servicemen deviated Read More …
An explosion targeting police vehicles inside Farah city kills 4 police and injures 22 civilians in Farah city, an official said. “Explosives placed inside a vehicle targeted a police car around 18:30 in district 4 of Farah city on Wednesday, Read More …
The Defense Ministry of the Libyan Government of National Accord said the number of deaths due to mines planted by Khalifa Haftar’s forces in south Tripoli and Sirte had reached 55. The ministry said the number of injuries also reached Read More …
The devastating explosion in Beirut is a grim reminder of a deeply troubling fact: the thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate unsafely stored in that city’s port is not the only site at risk of spontaneous detonation. In the Philippines, Read More …
At least three pro-government Yemeni soldiers were killed on Wednesday in an explosion caused by a roadside bomb in the country’s southwestern province of Taiz, a government official told Xinhua. The local government source said on condition of anonymity that Read More …
Five suspected members of Neo JMB, an offshoot of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), have been arrested by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational (CTTC) unit of police in Sylhet over a bomb blast in Paltan. The identities of Read More …