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According to reports, China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) could use large underwater drones to lay mines to blockade the “First Island Chain” should tensions over Taiwan escalate. Suggested in a Chinese military magazine, Shipborne Weapons, the strategy would likely Read More …
Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday that its specialized units have dismantled an “active terrorist cell” and arrested five of its members. Preliminary data indicated that members of the cell were involved in assembling explosive devices, preparing improvised explosive devices Read More …
A United Nations peacekeeper was killed and three others wounded after a UNIFIL patrol came under small-arms fire while clearing explosive ordnance along a road in the southern Lebanese village of Ghandouriyeh, the peacekeeping mission said on Saturday. Two of Read More …
The Defence Secretary has ordered an investigation after The Telegraph revealed that the British Army was using Chinese 3D printers to build weapons. Last year, it was revealed that British troops were taking the technology with them into the field Read More …
Counter-terrorism investigators are examining three separate arson attacks in London against an Iranian dissident and Jewish targets amid fears the Iranian state may be behind them. The latest attack happened at about 8.30pm on Wednesday, outside the offices of Iran Read More …
The anti-Maoist operation in the Saranda forest region of Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district has intensified even as one more security personnel, the sixth, has been injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast — the second such explosion within the Read More …
Members of the Zamfara State Community Protection Guards have arrested a commercial driver conveying 98 explosive devices, N13 million and three motorcycles en route to a bandits’ camp in Bindin village, Maru local government area of the state. The suspect Read More …
The source of an explosion sound in downtown Tehran on Tuesday night was a homemade explosive package, with reports suggesting the damage caused by the blast was minor and there were no casualties. On Tuesday night, April 14, two liquid Read More …
Troops of the Nigerian Army under Operation Eastern Sanity have conducted a raid across the South-East, overrunning IPOB/ESN strongholds. According to the Army, “On 14 April 2026, joint troops of Sector 1, supported by the Air Component of Operation Udoka, Read More …
Somali National Army and security units from Jubaland carried out a large-scale operation in parts of southern Somalia targeting the extremist group al-Shabab, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Defense of Somalia said the joint operation took place in Read More …
In the south of Afghanistan, Helmand Province was once at the centre of heavy fighting between the Taliban and NATO and the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces. Until 2021, NATO and the ANA tried to expel the Taliban from their Read More …
Police have detained two young men suspected of carrying out a terrorist attack in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, on the orders of Russian secret services. At 22:08 on 13 April, a report was received via the 102 emergency line about an Read More …
Hezbollah deployed a new “hard‑to‑detect” attack drone alongside a wave of retaliatory strikes Monday, carrying out scores of operations against Israeli military positions and settlements across the northern part of the occupied territories. The group sent at least 40 drones Read More …
On 11 April 2026 at 2:15 PM, five residents of Yar Phu (Thit) Village in Yebyu Township in Tanintharyi Region, were working in a rubber plantation near the village, they stepped on an improvised explosive device planted by so-called PDF Read More …
The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro coordinated a specialized operation on Monday, April 13, 2026, to remove an explosive device found on the Copacabana beach boardwalk. The intervention occurred at the site where crews are currently building the stage Read More …
Troops of Sector 3 under the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation HADIN KAI, have repelled an attempted infiltration by insurgents at a military position in Monguno, but suffered fatal losses from an Improvised Explosive Device shortly after the engagement. Read More …
A team of Royal Navy divers safely detonated more than 3½ tonnes of explosives during a visit by HMS Tamar to the remote Pitcairn Islands. Pitcairn is a tiny British Overseas Territory in the southwest Pacific with only 38 residents Read More …
Controlled explosions were carried out by the Army last week, after 32 smoke mortars were discovered in Powys. The items were believed to have been found by someone digging in the Three Cocks area, near Brecon. They were safely removed Read More …
Hezbollah has increasingly been using first-person-view (FPV) explosive suicide drones against Israeli forces in Lebanon, and while these technologies and tactics have been emerging in the Levant, they have long been established in the war between Ukraine and Russia. Drone Read More …
The Finnish Defence Forces and police detonated an unexploded warhead found in a remote area of Iitti on Saturday. The device had detached from a suspected Ukrainian drone discovered nearby. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP) told Yle on Sunday that Read More …