Daraa: Russian Military Patrol Attacked For The First Time

A Russian military patrol was attacked with an improvised explosive device by unidentified persons in eastern rural Daraa, which is the first time the Russian forces get assaulted since their control of the governorate last year. On Saturday, July 13, Read More …

AFP, PNP: Filipino suicide bomber behind Sulu attack

This is the first officially confirmed case of a suicide bombing in the Philippines perpetrated by a Filipino, and marks an escalation in terror tactics by local extremists The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police Read More …

Bangalore: NIA recovers fabricated hand grenades and IED-making material

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has recovered five fabricated hand grenades and other incriminating materials on the disclosure of Habibur Rehman Sheikh, who has been arrested in the 2014 Burdwan blast case. The recovery was made on July 7 in Read More …

7 Pakistani militants killed, wounded in a premature IED explosion in East of Afghanistan

A premature Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion killed or wounded at least 7 Pakistani militants in Kunar province of Afghanistan. The 201st Silab Corps in a statement said an Improvised Explosive Device went off prematurely in Khas Kunar district of Read More …

Soldier killed, 3 injured in blast in NW Pakistan

A roadside bomb blast in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province killed one soldier and injured three others on Wednesday, local media reported. According to the reports, some unknown terrorists attacked a military vehicle with an Improvised Explosive Device which was Read More …

Somalia: At Least 4 Civilians Killed in IED Blast in Near Somalia-Kenyan Border

A witness says at least four civilians have died and two others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion struck a passenger vehicle near Somalia’s border with Kenya. The bomb ripped through a car ferrying milk from the rural area and Read More …

Terrorism ‘spreading and destabilizing’ entire regions, Guterres warns States, at key Kenya conference

Speaking in Nairobi at the opening of a conference on counter-terrorism, Mr. Guterres recalled how attackers had laid siege to a hotel complex in the capital in January, killing 21 people. Africans on ‘front line’ against terror The deteriorating situation in Read More …

12 killed, at least 96 wounded including dozens of school children in Ghazni car bombing

A car bomb explosion in south-eastern Ghazni province claimed the lives of at least 12 people and wounded at least 96 others. The local officials confirmed that a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb close to an intelligence compound in Read More …

Taliban attack in Kabul kills 16, wounds dozens of children

The Taliban detonated a powerful car bomb in an area of Afghanistan‘s capital housing military and government buildings, killing at least 16 people, the country’s interior ministry told Al Jazeera. The bomb went off during the morning rush hour in Kabul when the Read More …

Tunisia explosion: Capital rocked after two suicide attacks – 1 police officer dead

Tunisia has been rocked after two suicide bombers blew themselves up in separate attacks in the Tunisian capital, killing one police officer and wounding several others, the Tunisian Interior Ministry has confirmed. The first targeted a police patrol in Charles Read More …

10 injured as militants trigger IED blast again in Pulwama

Army personnel travelling in mine-proof vehicle targeted Eight Army personnel and two civilians were injured when militants triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) fitted in a vehicle near an Army patrol in the militancy-hit Pulwama district of south Kashmir on Read More …

Explosive Devices: The evolution of the threat

Improvised Explosives Devices (IED) have long been, and remain, the weapon of choice for terrorists and insurgents due to the ease of their manufacture, employment, and destructive potential, as shown by the attacks that have occurred around the world in Read More …

Four Cameroon police killed by suspected separatist bomb – government

Cameroon’s government said on Sunday that separatists in its restive English-speaking region had detonated an improvised explosive device that killed four police and wounded six. “The government condemns in the strongest terms this criminal act, perpetrated by armed bandits and Read More …

Islamists claim double attack in Somali capital Mogadishu

A pair of explosions rocked Somalia’s capital and left eight people dead, the director of an ambulance service said Saturday, as the al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility. Another 16 people were wounded, some of them seriously, Dr. Abdiqadir Aden Read More …