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Attacks involving Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) continue to take their toll on civilians in Mali. In the first quarter of 2023, the country recorded 39 incidents resulting in over 30 deaths and 86 injuries. On April 9, six passengers, one Read More …
A January to March security report presented to authorities in Nigeria’s embattled Northwest Kaduna state indicates that at least 214 people were killed in terrorist attacks and communal clashes, according to Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs Read More …
The UN mission in Mali said on social networks that two peacekeepers were wounded by a mine explosion in central Mali. “Our office in Mopti confirms an explosion near the village of Amba, 75 km west of Douentza, injuring two Read More …
Further searches are under way after a bomb squad removed a “suspect item” from a flat in Glasgow on Monday. Police were called to the scene on Petershill Road in the Springburn area of the city just after 10am on Read More …
A homemade bomb ripped through a bus in southern Philippines on Monday and wounded at least eight people, a military spokesperson said. Army Major Andrew Linao of the Western Mindanao Command said the bomb went off as the bus with Read More …
A security expert in Maiduguri, Borno state has recently reported that the National Guard of Niger Republic has lost at least two men to an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack in Djalori. Allegedly on Friday, 14th April 2023, the men Read More …
Three children playing in an abandoned house were killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in the Rehman Kahol area of Balochistan’s Chaman district, officials said on Friday. Two children — identified as Abdul Mateen, 12, and Abdul Qudoos, Read More …
A suspected petrol bomb has been thrown at a police vehicle in Derry. The incident happened in the Shearwater Way area of Derry at around 10am on Saturday as officers attended a reported incident. The PSNI said the vehicle then came Read More …
At least three soldiers attached to the 25 task force brigade of Operation Hadin Kai have been reportedly injured after running into an improvised explosive device (IED) in Borno. Allegedly, the troop encountered the IED during a fighting patrol between Read More …
A Spanish magistrate on Friday ordered the conditional release of a man charged with terrorism for sending six letters containing explosives to high-profile diplomatic and government targets. The National Court magistrate said Pompeyo González Pascual, 74, must appear in court Read More …
Pakistan Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has claimed that the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) still uses Afghanistan soil against Pakistan, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Defense Minister said while interviewing with Voice of America, a US broadcaster: “Islamabad has good relations Read More …
Four suspected pipe bombs have been found by police in a cemetery in Northern Ireland. Officers sealed off the City Cemetery in Creggan, Londonderry, on Tuesday following the discovery of a suspicious device. Police said all four devices were located Read More …
Thousands of African Union peacekeepers have been killed and hundreds more injured in Somalia since the forces began their work in that country in early 2007, the head of their mission told VOA Somali. The peacekeepers were deployed to help Read More …
Police in Northern Ireland have condemned a petrol bomb attack on officers during an Easter parade as “senseless and reckless”. The incendiary devices were thrown at an armoured police Land Rover in Creggan, Londonderry, on Easter Monday, while officers attended Read More …
Four people were killed and eight injured in a bombing targeting a police vehicle in a marketplace in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday, a hospital official said. According to senior police official Shafqat Cheema the target was Read More …
For the first time in more than eight years of war, there are real and concrete signs of peace. But as a Sky News team has discovered on the ground, this is a country broken by thousands of bombs, mines Read More …
Two security personnel were martyred and four others injured after their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Bara area of district Khyber on Saturday. Security forces have launched a search operation in the area to arrest the Read More …
Police in Northern Ireland have said they have “strong” intelligence terror attacks are being planned against their officers on Easter Monday. Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Simon Byrne said that officers would be moved to frontline duties Read More …
An IED allegedly planted by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Erbil province damaged a vehicle carrying three villagers on Thursday morning, but did not result in any casualties, according to a local official speaking to Kurdistan 24. The Read More …
United Nations Mine Action Services (UNMAS) in collaboration with Centre for Social Cohesion Peace and Empowerment (CENSCOPE) has urged the federal government to expedite action to establish the Centre for Mine Action to enable the body to coordinate its activities Read More …