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The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday said that its officers had detained a suicide bomber, a member of the Islamic State terrorist group, who was plotting a terrorist attack against one of India’s leadership elite, Russia news agency Read More …
Two more persons were arrested in connection with an improvised explosive device (IED) planted under the vehicle of Punjab Police sub-inspector Dilbag Singh in Ranjit Avenue locality of Amritsar. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested a man from Shirdi on Read More …
Terrorism remains an imminent threat to Ghana and other neighbouring countries, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, has said. He said the recent attacks in Burkina Faso, Togo, and Ivory Coast highlighted the determination of the terrorists to expand beyond landlocked Sahelian Read More …
Targeted attacks at police continue in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) as two more police constables were killed in an IED blast in Dama Dola, Bajaur tribal district on Friday. Police told The Express Tribune that miscreants had planted an IED device near Read More …
Car bomb and gun attack targeted a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday night, weeks after the government of new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud threatened to launch an all-out offensive against insurgents. Armed men entered Hayat Hotel near Read More …
Umar Patek, the bomb maker who helped assemble the devices used in the 2002 bombing in Bali, could walk free early from prison this year. The Indonesian ministry of law and human rights regional office in East Java has proposed Read More …
Mali accused France of arming Islamist fighters and carrying out acts of espionage against it, as relations between the West African country and the former colonial power reached a new low. In a letter addressed to the United Nations Security Read More …
At least 21 people have been killed and 33 others were wounded after a bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, during evening prayers on Wednesday, according to the police. “Yesterday an explosion occurred in a mosque … Read More …
The quick thinking by a car cleaner prevented a major mishap as he alerted its owner, a sub-inspector, of a suspicious object under his sports utility vehicle (SUV), which later turned out to be Improvised Explosive Device (IED), the police Read More …
Nigerian police said on Tuesday that two oil pipelines that feed the Brass Terminal Port which is operated by Italian energy company Eni, were recently blown up by explosives. Brass Terminal Port is one of the major onshore crude grades, Read More …
Unidentified people in Russia’s Kursk region have reportedly blown up part of the railway, as reported on Tuesday, August 16. The damage to the railway track in Russia’s Kursk region, specifically near the 14th kilometre of the Lgov-Lokinskaya line was Read More …
A 42-year-old woman has been arrested under the Terrorism Act as part of an investigation linked to Oglaigh na hEireann criminality. Detectives from the Terrorism Investigation Unit arrested the woman following a search of a property in west Belfast on Read More …
As the world remembered the chaos and tragedy that surrounded the U.S. and allied withdrawal from Afghanistan a year ago, a quieter exit took place Monday. The last French troops left Mali for neighboring Niger, drawing to a formal close Read More …
Multiple drones strapped with explosive devices attacked an American-run compound in Syria on Monday. The U.S. military says American and allied forces at the compound suffered no injuries or damage. No group has claimed responsibility yet for the attack which Read More …
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday a terror attack on an oil pipeline that was plotted by Ukrainian special services was prevented in Russia’s southern Volgograd region. “The FSB prevented an attempted sabotage and terror attack on an Read More …
Two soldiers of the Pakistan Army were martyred in an IED explosion in Dir area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), an explosive device exploded in Baraal area of Dir. Two soldiers of the Pakistan Army were Read More …
At least four people including two members of the Islamic Emirate’s forces were wounded in a blast that took place near an electronic identity center in PD 13 of capital Kabul, a security official said. Abdul Rahman Nafay, commander of Read More …
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Sindh Police officials have claimed that they have seized an improvised explosive device (IED) made from a mortar shell. “The type of explosive device recovered from Shiraz has never been used in terrorism before,” the Read More …
A prominent Taliban cleric, Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, was killed in an attack in a seminary in Kabul when the attacker detonated explosives hidden in a plastic artificial leg, according to officials and Taliban sources. “Very sadly informed that respected cleric Read More …
Security forces on Wednesday killed two terrorists during a shootout in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district, the military said in a statement. “On 10 August, an IED exploded on a police vehicle in general area Kulachi, Dera Ismail Khan district. Read More …