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A reported explosion closed a vital railway supply route in Russian-occupied Crimea on Wednesday, as Moscow and its regional collaborator authorities struggle with a wave of sabotage attacks. Sergey Aksyonov, the Kremlin-installed head of occupied Crimea, announced via Telegram on Read More …
Police have arrested a Norwegian citizen in Hungary on suspicion that he was planning an extremist attack modeled after a 2011 massacre in Norway that killed 77 people, authorities said Tuesday. The National Investigation Office of the Hungarian police said Read More …
Three Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) soldiers were killed, and more than 10 others injured when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device Sunday in coastal Lamu County. The incident comes a few days after eight KDF soldiers were killed Read More …
Eight IDF soldiers were wounded in the terrorist hotbed of Jenin on Monday after an arrest operation turned into a shootout that lasted nearly eight hours. The forces were ambushed by gunfire as they began to leave, with an Israeli Read More …
A soldier has died in the explosion of an improvised explosive device planted by the Kuki-Chin National Front, an ethnic separatist group. Army personnel were on their way to Painum Para to distribute drinkable water and oral rehydration packets. The Read More …
Four police officers providing protection for teachers and one villager were hurt in a roadside bomb attack in Raman district of Yala province on Thursday morning. The blast occurred on a local road at Na Toey village Moo 3 in Read More …
At least eight police officers were killed Tuesday in Bodhei at the border of Lamu and Garissa counties when the vehicle they were travelling in ran over an Improvised Explosive Device. The officers drawn from the special forces unit were Read More …
A second U.N. peacekeeper has died from injuries sustained during an attack in Mali’s northern Timbuktu region, an area where extremists continue to operate, the United Nations announced Monday. The attack Friday on a security patrol that was hit first Read More …
In this feature, part of a series exploring the fight against trafficking in the Sahel, UN News focuses on the illegal arms trade that is fuelling conflict and terrorism. In the Sahel, home to 300 million people, it’s a buyer’s Read More …
An explosion near a mosque in northern Afghanistan killed at least 11 people at a memorial service for the Taliban’s provincial deputy governor, who died in an attack earlier this week, officials said. A former Taliban police official was among Read More …
At least seven police officers sustained injuries when the vehicle they were traveling in ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Mandera South on Wednesday. The victims were injured to varying degrees, with some suffering injuries to the head, Read More …
The acting governor of a northeastern Afghan province has been killed in a car bombing, officials said, months after the region’s police chief was killed in a similar attack claimed by an affiliate of the ISIL (ISIS) group. On Tuesday, Read More …
In a series of unfortunate events, two separate incidents of bombings have shaken the region. South Waziristan fell victim to a devastating bomb blast, resulting in two fatalities and leaving three individuals injured. Simultaneously, in Peshawar, an explosive device detonated Read More …
An explosion occurred last night within a house in the Shirkole neighborhood of the Hodan district in Mogadishu amid tight security measures. The explosion from an IED was aimed to assassinate the former commander of the Hodan District Police Station, Abdifitah Read More …
Two CRPF jawans were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur on Monday. The pressure IED was planted by Naxalites which caused the blast, police said. The incident took place at 10.30 am near Tekameta hill Read More …
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced the deaths of 54 Ugandan soldiers in an al-Shabab attack on a base housing African Union peacekeepers in Somalia. Museveni’s statement on Saturday comes a week after al-Shabab fighters stormed the base in Lower Read More …
Lieutenant Fabrice Mboutou, a dedicated officer of the Cameroonian army’s Rapid Intervention Battalion, died as a result of fatal injuries sustained in the detonation of a homemade bomb. This incident adds to the horrific death toll of military troops in Read More …
At least two soldiers were reportedly killed and many others injured when the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists attacked reinforced troops with a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) at firm base Arege in Malam Fatori in Read More …
Security forces foiled a major terror bid in Bannu and the officials defused an eight-kilogram bomb in the vicinity of the Mandan police station on Thursday, ARY News reported. Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) personnel were called to the scene who Read More …
At least five Pakistani army forces and a child were injured in a roadside bomb explosion that took place in the Khadi area of North Waziristan on Tuesday, police said. According to local sources, the Pakistani army and security forces Read More …