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Police have arrested a second suspect in connection with a car bombing in Barrie’s west end last fall. Police say information “came to light during an unrelated investigation” on Tuesday, leading to the arrest of a 27-year-old Barrie man whose 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 …
San Jose police arrested a 56-year-old man they believe plated a viable improvised explosive device near businesses last week, forcing evacuations and the bomb squad to dispose of the device. It happened near Ridder Park Drive and Fox Lane last Read More …
A low intensity improvised explosive device caused extensive damage to a sliding glass door on Monday when it exploded outside the house in Mazotos. Police received the complaint at around 6.30pm. A 54-year-old man had been living in the house 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 …
Troops of Sector 2 Joint Task Force, North-East Operation Hadin Kai, have foiled an attempt by Boko Haram insurgents to vandalise power towers in Kasesa near Damaturu. “On receipt of credible intelligence of BHT activities, troops swiftly laid a successful 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 …
Bodycam footage shows the moment a chemical pipe bomb exploded on a Putnam County deputy during a traffic stop. In April, 60-year-old Charles Legault was pulled over by a Putnam County Sheriff’s Office deputy. In the video, the deputy first Read More …
Three people were killed while seven others were injured as a result of an explosion on Friday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mardan district when a remote-controlled explosive device planted on a bridge was set off, police officials said. Sadar Superintendent of Read More …
An explosion from an improvised explosive device (IED) caused damage to a patrol car early Thursday morning, according to the Beaverton Police Department. At about 2 a.m., a Beaverton patrol officer was responding to a disturbance in north Beaverton. While Read More …
Senior members of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian militant network blamed for the deadly Bali bombings, have announced they are disbanding the group, according to a report by a Jakarta-based think tank on Thursday. The report from the Institute for Read More …
Former senator Hidayatullah Khan was killed, along with four others, on Wednesday in a blast from an improvised explosive device (IED) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur, officials said. Malakand Regional Police Officer Muhammad Ali Khan Gandapur told Dawn that the former Read More …
Two man have been arrested in Enniskillen in Co Fermanagh in connection to an ongoing investigation into an improvised explosive device found in Co Louth last month. On 9 June gardaí launched an investigation after what it described as an Read More …
Police are investigating an attempted murder following the arrest of two additional suspects in connection with an explosion at a café in Strovolos two weeks ago. According to police reports, officers arrested a man and a woman, both aged 35, Read More …