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Two State Department bureaus could not prove compliance with internal policies for vetting aid groups in Afghanistan that received $293 million in funds, Washington’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said Wednesday. “It is critical that State knows who Read More …
Two Special Task Force (STF) jawans were killed and four others injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast by Naxalites in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh, police said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Wednesday night in the Tarrem area Read More …
At least six people have been killed and 28 others wounded in a shooting at a mosque in Oman in a rare act of violence in the Gulf nation. The attack late on Monday took place in Wadi al-Kabir, a Read More …
Yemen’s Houthi group announced Monday that it attacked three ships in the Red and Mediterranean Seas for breaching its embargo on vessels entering Israeli ports. In a statement, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group’s fighters targeted the “BENTLEY Read More …
Two soldiers and five civilians were martyred in a terrorist attack on a rural health centre in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district, the military’s media wing said on Tuesday. In a separate terrorist attack targeting Bannu Cantonment on Monday Read More …
A Syrian regime military vehicle was hit on Sunday when an Islamic State (ISIS) improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in the northern city of Raqqa, killing three Syrian soldiers, a conflict monitor reported. According to SOHR, three Syrian soldiers, including Read More …
A car bomb has exploded outside a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, killing at least nine and injuring several others as patrons were watching the final of the Euro 2024 football tournament on TV, the government said. The al-Qaeda-linked armed Read More …
A soldier was martyred and another injured when an improvised explosive device went off near a vehicle carrying a contingent of the Frontier Corps (FC) in the city’s Akhtarabad area on Saturday. The FC personnel were patrolling in the Western Read More …
A Turkish soldier was killed in an anti-terrorist operation in northern Iraq, near the Turkish border, said the Turkish National Defense Ministry on Friday. Sgt. Bahadir Ridvan Talay was killed by an improvised explosive device planted by members of a Read More …
Yemen’s Houthi group said Thursday that it has targeted 166 ships associated with Israel, the US and the UK since last November. In a televised speech, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said his group carried out 10 drone and missile attacks Read More …
Four police officers under the Special Operations Group (SOG) have been killed in a suspected Al-Shabaab attack at the border of Banisa and Mandera West sub-counties in Mandera County. According to a police report seen by The Standard, six other Read More …
An ambulance affiliated with Russian forces was hit on Thursday when an improvised-explosive device (IED) exploded in the Kurdish city of Hasaka in northeast Syria (Rojava) injuring three people, a conflict monitor reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) Read More …
An IDF operation with the Border Police thwarted dozens of IEDs buried in main roads of the Tulkarm neighborhood of Nur a-Shams, according to the army spokesperson’s unit on Tuesday. Using Shin Bet security agency and army intelligence, the operation Read More …
Suspected rebels fighting against Indian rule in the disputed region of Kashmir ambushed an army vehicle on Monday in the region’s south, killing five Indian soldiers and wounding other five, officials said. The attack took place in the Kathua district Read More …
A joint ATMIS – UPDF and SNAF logistics convoy was hit by a Command Wire Improvised Explosive Device (CWIED) yesterday along the Mogadishu-Buffow-Barawe route. The attack claimed two lives and injured personnel from both ATMIS and SNAF. All casualties have Read More …
New fighting has broken out in northeastern Myanmar, bringing an end to a Chinese-brokered cease-fire and putting pressure on the military regime as it faces attacks from resistance forces on multiple fronts in the country’s civil war. The Ta’ang National Read More …
A soldier of Frontier Corps was seriously wounded in an explosion in the Margat coal mines area of Bolan district, on Saturday. Officials said that unidentified militants planted an improvised explosive device (IED) in Margat area and detonated it when Read More …
Security forces in Jharkhand have claimed to have averted a major tragedy by defusing the recovered IEDs in forest areas of Gumla district in Jharkhand. The security forces had recovered as many as 35 IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) planted by Read More …
Guerrilla group EMC killed six soldiers in an attack with improved explosive devices in northern Colombia, the commander of the army’s 7th Division said Friday. The attack, which injured another three soldiers, took place in Valdivia, a rural town in Read More …
In barely a week, the Israel Defense Forces has lost two fighters to powerful roadside bombs in the West Bank. Cpt. Alon Sacgiu, 22, a sniper team commander in the Kfir Brigade’s Haruv reconnaissance unit, was killed in an explosion Read More …