Nevada: Carson City Man Arrested for Allegedly Building Explosives

A Carson City man was arrested and faces charges related to building explosive devices. Carson City deputies conducted a traffic stop on Saturday, May 18, around 1 a.m. on a car driven by 50-year-old Christopher Gorham. After searching the car, Read More …

Yemeni Houthi rebels have shot down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone

Houthi rebels shoot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone in Yemen and attacked vessel in Red Sea, continuing campaign over Israel-Hamas war. Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Friday claimed to have shot down an American drone, hours after footage circulated online Read More …

UK: Man caught with homemade explosive device sparking evacuation jailed

A man who built a homemade explosive forcing around 60 people to flee their homes has been jailed for 30 months. Christopher Scarr was caught with the device in a cupboard at the property in Glasgow’s Springburn on April 17, Read More …

Nigeria: Troops kill ISWAP top bomb producer

The troops of Operation Desert Sanity III and Operation Hadin Kai have successfully eliminated the Islamic State West African Province, ISWAP, top Commander in charge of Vehicle Bomb Improvised Explosive Device, VBEID, Mallam Muhammadu. This followed the continuation of the Read More …

UK: Mass poisoning leaves 25 prison guards ill when inmates ‘laced curry with zombie drug’

A ‘mass poisoning’ put prison guards in hospital after inmates allegedly added the wrong type of ‘spice’ to a ‘staff special curry’. Prisoners working in the staff canteen of the high-security HMP Swaleside, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, Read More …

UK: Controlled explosion carried out in Caddington as counter-terror police arrest man in Bedfordshire

A man has been arrested by counter-terrorism officers after “a number of suspicious substances” were found at a property in Bedfordshire. Police said an ordnance disposal team had carried out a “controlled explosion” at the site on Hyde Road, Caddington, Read More …

Northern Ireland: Man and woman charged with attempting to make explosives after house search

A man and woman have been charged with attempting to make explosives under suspicious circumstances and possessing firearms and ammunition in suspicious circumstances. The arrests and charges follow a proactive search of a house in the Holylands area of south Read More …

France accuses Azerbaijan of fomenting deadly riots in overseas territory New Caledonia

Days of clashes between demonstrators and police in French-controlled New Caledonia are fueled by foreign interference, Paris declared on Thursday, as local officials vowed to restore order in the South Pacific territory. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that the Read More …

Bangladesh: Two ARSA men held in Cox’s Bazar

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained two commanders of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and recovered a huge amount of local and foreign arms, including grenades and rocket cells during a raid on the hideout in the Ukhiya Hills Read More …

UK: Suspect materials found and injured man arrested as bomb squad investigate caravan explosion

A man who was seriously injured in a caravan explosion in Cornwall has been arrested and is now under police guard in hospital. The explosion rocked the quiet village of Drakewalls on Sunday (May 12) with the bomb squad called Read More …

Ireland: Area cordoned off as Bomb Squad remove viable device in Co. Offaly

The Army’s ‘Bomb Squad’ has removed a viable device that was recovered in Offaly over the weekend. Gardaí and the EOD Unit were called to the scene in Castleview Park in Edenderry on Friday afternoon at around midday. The Defence Read More …

UK: Man jailed after ammunition and explosive material found at East London address

Ricky Anderson, 45 (09.08.78) of Beechwood Drive, Woodford Green appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Thursday, 9 May where he was sentenced to a total of five years in prison for firearm offences. Anderson was also given a five year Read More …

Nigeria: Gunmen storm Edo community, kill one, burn cars, houses

A gang of armed bandits, who identified themselves as ‘Ijaw Freedom Fighters’, on Sunday night attacked Imariogha community, near Okomu Oil Palm Plantation in Edo State, setting ablaze over eight vehicles. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the bandits Read More …

India: Two children killed in IED explosion in Bijapur

Two children were killed when an explosive device they found in a forest area in their village in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist-affected Bijapur district on Monday went off after one of them hit it with a stone without knowing that it was Read More …

India: Woman killed after stepping on IED planted Naxalites in Chhattisgarh

A 25-year-old woman was killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites went off in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday, the police said. Shanti Punem was collecting tendu leaves near Mallur village within the limits of the Gangaloor Read More …

Washington: St. Joseph Medical Center staff find explosive device on admitted patient

Bellingham police officers responded to the St. Joseph Medical Center on Wednesday evening after hospital staff located a small improvised explosive device in the jacket pocket of an admitted patient, according to Megan Peters with the Bellingham Police Department. Hospital Read More …

Mozambique’s president says northern town of Macomia under Islamist attack

Mozambique’s army is fighting Islamist insurgents who launched a major attack on the northern town of Macomia on Friday morning, President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised address. The town is in Cabo Delgado, a gas-rich northern province where Islamic Read More …