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The police in Germany arrested six Syrian migrants on Tuesday, suspected of plotting an attack and having links to the Islamic State, fanning fears that extremists posing as refugees were targeting Europe. Millions of refugees, buffeted by conflict and civil Read More …
At least eight police officers, including a commander, and three civilians were killed when a suicide bomber tried to enter a wedding hall in central Kabul on Thursday, Afghan officials said. Police officers spotted the bomber at the gate of Read More …
Two suicide bombers detonated a car packed with explosives in Yemen’s southern city of Aden on Tuesday, killing at least six people, witnesses said. Dozens of other people, including civilians, were wounded in the attack, which occurred outside a camp used by a local Read More …
At least one person was confirmed dead, and several wounded after a car bomb blast struck a military convoy transporting African Union forces near Mogadishu, the Somali capital. A witness said a Toyota Noah packed with explosives was detonated at Read More …
A viable pipe bomb was found close to a war memorial in Omagh, police in Northern Ireland have confirmed. The discovery of the “small but potentially dangerous device” was made before a Remembrance Day parade took place. The march was diverted Read More …
Afghan officials say a suicide car bombing in the southern Helmand province has targeted a police compound, killing one policeman and wounding two. Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor, says the attack targeted a border police compound in Lashkar Read More …
The Iraqi army killed four suicide bombers before crossing into Iraq from Syria on Thursday, a commander was quoted saying. Maj. Gen. Nawman al-Zawbai, commander of the army’s 7th division, told Alsumaria News that a force from the division killed Read More …
The Nigerian Army, Monday, lost one of its soldiers just as three others sustained various degrees of injuries from an improvised explosive device, IED, launched by Boko Haram terrorists in Gulak, Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State. This came as Read More …
An explosion of militants’ Improvised Explosive Device (IED) killed at least three militants and injured seven others in Alishing district of eastern Afghan province of Laghman, a statement said Thursday. “The IED went off accidently late on Wednesday when the Read More …
A teenager has been convicted of trying to import explosives from the dark web with intent to endanger life. Gurtej Singh Randhawa, from Wolverhampton, attempted to buy a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, which would be sent to him. The 19-year old was Read More …
Six people were killed and wounded on Tuesday when an explosive device went off in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to security sources. The sources told Baghdad Today that an explosive device planted near commercial stores in Haswa, Abu Gharib, exploded, Read More …
Landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are posing a serious threat to the lives of innocent tribesmen who after experiencing the worst kind of sizzling heat and chilly cold weather in adjacent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa districts, are returning to their homes Read More …
Right-wing extremists communicating in confidential online chats in recent months have shared scores of documents detailing the manufacture and use of bombs, grenades, mines and other incendiary devices. The documents, which range from instructions on detonating dynamite to U.S. military Read More …
About four soldiers fighting Boko Haram insurgency in North-east were feared dead as military troops under Operation Lafiya Dole engaged Boko Haram terrorists in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. Though the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Read More …
A would-be bomber bought the wrong type of nail varnish remover to make an explosive, a court has heard. Munir Mohammed enlisted chemist Rowaida El-Hassan, who he met on a dating website, to help him make a bomb or a Read More …
At least 8 AlShabaab militants on Monday night died in an IED explosion in north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, Radio Dalsan reports. The eight were part of a Mogadishu based AlShabaab cell that were planning to execute an attack Read More …
At least three people have been killed and 13 injured in a powerful explosion in central Kabul, Afghan officials say. Ambulances have been ferrying victims of the blast in the capital’s diplomatic zone to hospital. The number of dead and Read More …
Two explosions have rocked the Somali capital Mogadishu, just two weeks after huge bomb killed more than 350 people. The first blast was caused by a car bomb being driven into a hotel. Militants then stormed the building. The second Read More …
A combative nationalist MP has been wounded and two others killed in an explosion in Kiev, the sixth assassination attempt by a vehicle bomb in Ukraine in 15 months. Ihor Mosiychuk, a member of the opposition Radical Party who has Read More …
The Police Command in Borno on Monday said 16 persons were killed and 18 others sustained injuries in multiple suicide bomb attacks at Muna area of Maiduguri. The Police Commissioner, Damian Chukwu, confirmed the incident in a text message sent Read More …