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SUKKUR: Fifty-eight people were killed and over 49 injured when a bomb tore through a Shia mosque packed with worshippers here on Friday, around 470 kilometers north of Karachi.The incident took place at Markazi Jamia Masjid Syedu Shuhada, located in Read More …
Three soldiers and 123 Boko Haram militants were killed when the Islamist group attacked a Chadian army contingent in northern Cameroon, the Chadian military said Friday.Twelve soldiers were wounded in the attacks staged by the Islamists on Thursday and Friday Read More …
EL-ARISH, Egypt — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for playing a role in a sophisticated insurgent attack that killed 31 people in Egypt’s volatile northern Sinai Peninsula. El-Sissi, a former army chief, cut short a trip Read More …
Ordnance left by parting international troops kills or injures about 40 people a month – the vast majority children. International troops pulling out of Afghanistan have left behind a lethal legacy of unexploded bombs and shells that are killing and Read More …
Minister for Defence Kevin Andrews today announced that Australia has commenced delivering counter improvised explosive device equipment to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) as part of Australia’s contribution to the Afghan National Army (ANA) Trust Fund. This project involves Read More …
The structure and functions of the brain are highly complex, and in turn, the way it reacts to injury and insults can be perplexing. In fact, it is arguably the most complex and least understood structure in nature. Researchers at Read More …
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Canada delivered six demining robots to the Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces, where 70 percent of casualties are caused by planted bombs. The remotely-operated devices, delivered at a ceremony outside Erbil on Tuesday,will be used to detect Read More …
NAIROBI, Kenya: — The first UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Defence & Security Trade Mission to Kenya takes place in Nairobi 28 – 29 January 2015. The Mission, the first of its kind to Kenya, brings a trade delegation of Read More …
Srinagar – Army and police recovered 26 pull switches and war like stores from a militant hideout in North Kashmir Bandipora district. Sources said that Army’s 14 Rashtriya Rifles and Bandipore police conducted a joint operation in Shok Baba forests of Read More …
NEW DELHI: – To effectively counter the menace of improvised explosive devices (IED), India may soon establish a joint programme to integrate counter-IED efforts of defence ministry, home ministry and agencies involved in dealing with terror incidents. The idea is Read More …
A suicide car bomb exploded at the gate of a Mogadishu hotel where Turkish delegates were meeting on Thursday, a day before a visit by President Tayyip Erdogan to the Somali capital. At least two police officers were killed but Read More …
Five Russians have been arrested in southern France on suspicion of planning an attack, local prosecutors have said. Four of the suspects, all from the Caucasus region, were detained in Montpellier and a fifth was arrested around 40 miles away Read More …
The Royal Thai Army has said it cannot afford to supply armoured vests to all soldiers stationed in the deep South. Army chief of staff Gen Chatchalerm Chalermsukh said the vests have to be shared between soldiers nationwide, and the Read More …
Britain is sending bomb detection equipment used by troops in Afghanistan to soldiers fighting ISIS in Iraq, it has emerged. The move is said to be ‘softening the blow’ as the Government delays plans to send hundreds of troops to Read More …
The United Nations-supported Mine Action Programme in Afghanistan (MAPA) has said today that while 2014 could prove to have been a major turning point in the country’s long and tortured history, it was also a year that had inflicted “immense Read More …
The Department of Homeland Security is increasing security checks at American airports because of concerns over new bomb-making instructions released by al Qaeda in Yemen (AQAP), the terrorist group which U.S. intelligence agencies believe may have been behind the Charlie Read More …
Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action has detected and neutralized 76 unexploded ordnance (UXO), as well as mines including 17 anti-personnel devices and one anti-tank mine during last December, ANAMA said. Some 484 deminers and 118 support staff, six mechanical Read More …
Saudi Arabia is on alert for jihadi attacks after a general and two other soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in the first deadly assault along the country’s border with Iraq since it joined the US-led coalition fighting Islamic Read More …
A 36-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of importing offensive weapons after unknown liquids found in Cramlington home. Police are currently searching a Cramlington home after potentially dangerous chemicals and liquids were discovered inside. A 36-year-old man was arrested when officers Read More …
A suspicious package that caused a security alert at the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s headquarters was a “viable device”. It is understood it was contained in an envelope delivered to the building on Knock Road, Belfast, earlier on Thursday. Read More …
