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A booby-trapped vehicle went off in a Turkey-controlled area in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah on Tuesday, killing eight people, a war monitor reported. The vehicle exploded in a marketplace in the city of Ras al-Ayn in the countryside of Read More …
At least three members of the Afghan National Army were killed in a car bomb attack by the Taliban in the western province of Badghis on Sunday evening, an army commander said on Monday. The incident happened in Bala Murghab Read More …
One person was killed, and two others were injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the Turkey-Somalia military training academy in Mogadishu on Tuesday, witnesses and officials say. The incident occurred outside a primary school supported by the academy, according to witnesses. Read More …
Mayor Reynalbert Insular of South Upi town, Maguindanao survived a bomb attack Monday, his second in about two years. The roadside bomb went off while Insular and his escorts were passing by a dirt road behind the South Upi town Read More …
Three police officers were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in Afghanistan’s western Herat province on Sunday, local police said. “Three Afghan National Police (ANP) members were killed and three others wounded in an improvised bomb explosion Read More …
Alert residents helped the military find and neutralize bombs that the Abu Sayyaf Group is believed to have left in Ungkaya Pukan town, Basilan. Brig. Gen. Fernando Reyeg, Joint Task Force Basilan (JTFB) and 101st Infantry Brigade commander, said troops Read More …
Dozens of Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers were targeted by a roadside bomb in the eastern countryside of the Daraa Governorate on Saturday. According to a report from the governorate, a bus carrying 40 soldiers was targeted by an improvised Read More …
The smell of gunpowder still lingered in the battle-scarred south of Libya’s capital when Hicham Suleiman, a teacher in his 50s, cautiously returned to his home. He left his car some 400 metres (yards) from his house and continued on Read More …
A weekend ambush on a military convoy in central Mali left 24 soldiers dead and an unspecified number missing, the army said Monday, blaming the assault on jihadists. In posts on social media, the army did not enumerate the missing Read More …
Hind Al Soulia – Riyadh – Iranian proxy forces have created their own drone manufacturing industry, increasing threats to the Gulf region, defence experts and intelligence sources have warned. There are increased security concerns that Houthi rebels in Yemen are Read More …
A deadly blast on a mosque in Kabul during the Friday prayers killed 4 including a prominent religious cleric, the Ministry of Interior Affairs said. According to the Ministry, the explosives were placed inside the mosque that killed Azizullah Mofleh, Read More …
A man was killed and 15 others were injured in an IED blast in Rawalpindi’s Saddar area, police said Friday. The Rawalpindi CCPO and other police officials along with the bomb disposal squad immediately reached the spot. The body and Read More …
A roadside bomb targeting a vehicle carrying troops has exploded in northwestern Pakistan, killing two soldiers and wounding two others, the military says. The Pakistani army said in a statement on June 10 that the attack occurred near the town of Miran Read More …
Depletion of locally available ingredients for making explosives could force the militant group Al-Shabaab to smuggle the components into the country, the UN has warned. The chair of the UN Security on Somalia, Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve, told the Council Read More …
African Members Emphasize Urgent Need to Boost Operational Capacity of G5 Sahel Joint Force, Humanitarian Relief for Displaced COVID-19 has added a layer of complexity to the highly volatile security situation in the Sahel, with terrorists capitalizing on the pandemic Read More …
A man accused of trying to murder a PSNI officer is to mount a legal bid to have the case thrown out, it emerged today. 39 year-old Peter Granaghan faces charges linked to a bomb found under the off-duty policeman’s Read More …
Ten Ukrainian servicemen were injured in a blast as a Spartan armored personnel carrier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit an unidentified explosive device in the town of Avdiyivka, Donetsk region, on Tuesday morning. Law enforcement agencies opened a Read More …
Two civilians were killed in a bomb attack in northeastern Syria, security sources said Friday. An explosives-laden car detonated in the town of Ras al-Ayn, wounding five other civilians, according to the sources who asked not to be named due Read More …
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continues to confront a dilemma: what to do with the fighters accused of fleeing to Syria to join the Islamic State. To the extent that this issue gets any airtime in English-language press, the focus tends to Read More …
A nine-year-old boy was on Monday killed and his teenage brother injured by an explosive device they had taken to an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Maiduguri, Borno State for their father. The kids had taken the device from Read More …