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28 Three people were reportedly killed when a car bomb exploded in the Kurdish city of Afrin in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo province. A source told Kurdistan 24 that the explosive-laden vehicle blew up at the entrance of Read More …
Five members of the Iraqi federal police were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the northern province of Kirkuk, a source said. The incident took place on Friday, when a roadside bomb exploded near a federal police vehicle outside Read More …
At least five soldiers of Frontier Corps (FC) were martyred in Balochistan’s Sibi district on Friday after terrorists attacked a patrol of the security forces, said a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) In another incident, the terrorists Read More …
A blast in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore killed two people and wounded 14 others on Wednesday, police said, adding that they had yet to determine whether the explosion in a residential neighbourhood was caused by a bomb. “Our Read More …
Two Burkina Faso soldiers have been killed died while looking for four policemen missing after a deadly jihadist ambush, the government said Wednesday. “After the death of 11 policemen” on Monday in the Centre-Nord region, the two soldiers had died Read More …
Twenty-five years ago, at about 9:30 pm in the evening of June 25, 1996, a huge explosion rocked the barracks for the United States Air Force 4404 Provisional Wing in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The blast from a truck bomb was Read More …
A Sydney man who posted extremist rhetoric and possessed recipes for explosives has been arrested for allegedly being a member of the Islamic State group, Australian police said on Saturday. “The man has been charged with membership of a terrorist Read More …
A man was injured in an IED explosion close to a seminary near Satellite Town here on Wednesday. Police said unidentified people parked a motorcycle rigged with an improvised explosive device in the Ishaqabad area and detonated the IED with Read More …
Balkh police say that last night a truck full of Taliban explosives, which was trying to target the police headquarters of Dolatabad district of the province, was identified and targeted by security forces before reaching the target. پولیس بلخ می Read More …
Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist group has confirmed the death of its chief Abubakar Shekau, who sources say died during infighting with a rival Islamic State-allied faction, according to a video message from its presumed new commander. In the short video Read More …
A car bomb exploded inside a military base in the Colombian border town of Cucuta on Tuesday, leaving 36 people injured, including three in critical condition, officials said. During an emergency visit to the base, Defense Minister Diego Molano described Read More …
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military training camp in the south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, early Tuesday. Two security sources told VOA Somali that a man disguised as a military recruit detonated a suicide vest. The Read More …
A group of UN experts overseeing sanctions in the Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of a proliferation of homemade bombs in the country’s northeast, in an annual report seen by AFP Tuesday. In suggestions to the Security Council, the Read More …
The eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has long been a cradle of rebel activity, often the spill-over of conflict in neighbouring Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. Among the most notorious groups now operating there is Uganda’s Allied Democratic Read More …
Two soldiers have been killed in an ambush by suspected jihadists and eight United Nations troops wounded by a landmine in conflict-riven Mali, military and UN sources said Sunday. “Two of our men were killed by terrorists on Saturday night Read More …
Four Frontier Corps soldiers were martyred in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion on the Margat-Quetta road in Balochistan, the military’s media wing said in a statement on Monday. “Terrorists targeted Frontier Corps troops employed for [the] security of Margat Read More …
In a recent Air & Space Power Journal, Maj Jules “Jay” Hurst explains how small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) enable less capital-rich nations to enter the air domain.1 Though airpower has historically been scarce for its costs and complexities, commercial Read More …
Two blasts targeted two minivans carrying civilians in two areas in the west of Kabul on Saturday afternoon, the Ministry of Interior Affairs said. One of the blasts happened in the Dasht-e-Barchi area in Kabul’s District 13 and another happened Read More …
It was the biggest bomb ever exploded in peacetime England: so vast that no building within half a mile is thought to have been left undamaged. Twenty-five years ago on Tuesday, the IRA detonated a device that would rip a Read More …
Two soldiers and a police officer were killed when their vehicle hit an explosive device in northeast Ivory Coast near the border with Burkina Faso, the military said Sunday. Army chief of staff General Lassina Doumbia said that at around Read More …