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An investigation is ongoing after emergency officials, including the FBI and bomb disposal units, were called to a home in Sandy Township Friday evening. While details are limited at this time, The Sandy Township Police Department said that they, along Read More …
A northwest Iowa man who built and fired two improvised explosive missiles will serve 10 years in federal prison. 60-year-old Daniel Graben of Sioux City has been sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty in July of this year to Read More …
CAMP ASAKUSA, Japan – American Soldiers and Army civilians from the U.S. military’s premier Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command participated in Exercise Yama Sakura from Japan and Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington. Highly specialized units from the 20th Read More …
On Dec. 19, U.S. Central Command Forces conducted a precision airstrike targeting ISIS leader Abu Yusif aka Mahmud in the Dayr az Zawr Province, Syria resulting in two ISIS operatives killed, including Abu Yusif. This airstrike is part of CENTCOM’s Read More …
Washington is scrapping a long-standing reward for the arrest of Syria’s new leader, a senior U.S. diplomat said Friday, following “positive messages” from a first meeting that included a promise to fight terrorism. Barbara Leaf, Washington’s top diplomat for the Read More …
A Virginia college student was arrested by the FBI this week for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on the Israeli Consulate in New York City. Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, an Egyptian national and 18-year-old student at George Mason University Read More …
California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the U.S. That raises new questions about the virus, which has Read More …
Luigi Mangione, the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors in New York announced on Tuesday. Mangione faces an 11-count indictment, including one count of murder in the first-degree Read More …
Founder of Iranian Company and his Co-Defendant, an Employee of a U.S. Microelectronics Manufacturer, Also Charged with Violating Export Control Laws in Conspiracy to Procure Sensitive U.S. Technology for Use in IRGC Military Drones Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi, 42, a dual Read More …
Yemeni media report that a joint American-British airstrike has hit the Al-Tuhayta district in southern Hodeida governorate, located along the Red Sea in western Yemen. The latest airstrike on Yemen’s Al-Tuhayta district follows a month of intensive US-UK raids targeting Read More …
A 39-year-old Upton man has been arrested and accused of planting a homemade propane bomb in the tool shed of a Wyoming oil field company near Upton in northeast Wyoming. David Riggle remains in the Weston County Detention Center on Read More …
During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped more than 8 million tons of bombs and sprayed 74 million liters of Agent Orange and other herbicides in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Nearly 50 years after the war’s end, the deadly Read More …
On November 20, 2024, the administration of United States President Joe Biden announced the transfer of antipersonnel landmines to Ukraine, reversing a longstanding US prohibition. An additional transfer of antipersonnel mines was announced on December 2. The announcements did not Read More …
A U.S. Army civilian safety manager was recently recognized for contributing to the blast overpressure standards for the U.S. military while improving the safety program at the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group that covers the western United States. Robert B. Reynolds, Read More …
A section of the American airliner which exploded over Lockerbie 35 years ago is being transported to the US for the trial of the man accused of making the bomb. The wreckage from the fuselage of Pan Am Flight 103 Read More …
After years of rumours that the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in China, the virologist at the centre of the claims has presented data on dozens of new coronaviruses collected from bats in southern China. At a Read More …
Ahmad al-Sharaa, known as Muhammad al-Jawlani or Abu Muhammad al-Golani, the leader of the Syrian rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad and have taken over the country, still has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head as a wanted terrorist. Read More …
The United States unveiled a $988 million aid package of new arms and equipment to Ukraine for its ongoing fight against Russia’s invasion on Saturday. The package nearly halves the available $2.21 billion remaining in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative as Read More …
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed a classified strategy that aims to create a unified and comprehensive approach across the Defense Department to countering drones, an acknowledgment of the systems’ growing impact on modern warfare. While the strategy’s details will Read More …
The man detained in White Settlement last week after police found explosives in his vehicle told authorities he was planning to attack a North Texas church, according to a report obtained by the Dallas Morning News. White Settlement police called Read More …