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Kenyan security forces have increased their operations along the country’s 680-kilometer border with Somalia in response to recent attacks by al-Shabaab. During one recent attack against a military outpost in Sirari, security forces killed a suspected suicide bomber and brought Read More …
A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a roadside mosque when a police officer tried to arrest him after a chase in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing the officer, police said. It was unclear whether any Read More …
A suicide bomber on Monday targeted a military training academy in Somalia, killing 25 soldiers in the capital of Mogadishu, a senior army officer said. Al-Qaida’s affiliate in East Africa, the Somalia-based al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attack. The officer Read More …
A ‘misunderstood’ Islamic State groomer who convinced an Australian teenager to become a suicide bomber will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Mirsad Kandic, 40, was sentenced to life in jail for charges relating to terrorism and his Read More …
Abdul Mateen Qaneh, Taliban’s spokesperson for the interior ministry on Tuesday, July 11, confirmed the content of the letter but avoided providing further details about the potential threats. The letter was delivered on July 9 to the Taliban’s police command Read More …
The security situation in Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia, remains highly precarious as recent reports from local security sources reveal a chilling incident where a lone suicide bomber successfully infiltrated the heavily crowded stadium in Mogadishu. The stadium was Read More …
A suspected al-Shabaab suicide bomber was killed and eight Kenyan police officers were wounded in separate incidents near Kenya’s border with Somalia on Wednesday. In the first incident, the militants ambushed and injured at least eight elite police officers from Read More …
Three soldiers including Naib Subedar Sahib Khan, Naik Muhammad Ibrahim and Sepoy Jehangir Khan embraced martyrdom when a vehicle borne suicide bomber exploded himself at Miran Shah in North Waziristan District. According to ISPR, the suicide bomber intended targeting the Read More …
A suicide bomber struck in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least one police and wounding five others in an attempt to target a paramilitary convoy, an official said. Authorities recovered the remains of a female bomber following the explosion Read More …
A military base in Somalia came under attack by al-Shabaab extremists on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, just as the African Union announced it was beginning a drawdown of troops in the violence-wracked nation. Almost simultaneous suicide bomb blasts targeted Read More …
Ethiopia says it foiled a suicide attack by the armed group al-Shabab at a border town with Somalia. The Ethiopian army “stopped the attackers in their tracks before they could wreak havoc” in the Ethiopia-Somalia border town of Somali Region Read More …
The acting governor of a northeastern Afghan province has been killed in a car bombing, officials said, months after the region’s police chief was killed in a similar attack claimed by an affiliate of the ISIL (ISIS) group. On Tuesday, Read More …
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced the deaths of 54 Ugandan soldiers in an al-Shabab attack on a base housing African Union peacekeepers in Somalia. Museveni’s statement on Saturday comes a week after al-Shabab fighters stormed the base in Lower Read More …
A suicide bomber killed four people when he detonated a car bomb at a police checkpoint in a marketplace in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said. Pakistan is grappling with an uptick in militancy since the Taliban returned to power Read More …
The suicide bomber in October 2022 Coimbatore blast, Jameesha Mubeen, and two of his relatives had purchased 190 kg of explosive material – both through e-commerce websites and offline – to make a potent Improvised Explosive Device (IED) for the Read More …
A man was killed and six others were injured in a tragic incident of a suicide attack near Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq’s cavalcade in Zhob on Friday. According to police, Mr Haq remained safe during the blast. The JI chief Read More …
A suspected suicide bomb attack on Chinese shipyard workers in Pakistan has been foiled by police. The PTI news agency cited police officers as saying the attacker was killed by security forces on Wednesday following an intelligence tip-off. An attack Read More …
A suspected member of Boko Haram on Monday morning was reported to have blown himself off with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) to avoid being arrested by security operatives. The Nation gathered the incident occurred at Ibrahim Haske Road in Read More …
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD – The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) participated in an Army-sponsored data collection event at the Cold Regions Test Center (CRTC) in Fort Greely, Alaska as part of its work Read More …
At least two people were killed and 12 injured in a blast near Afghanistan’s ministry of foreign affairs, according to a hospital run by an Italian NGO in capital Kabul. “We received some patients,” said Stefano Sozza of Italian NGO Read More …