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Several IEDs, illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia were discovered during a traffic stop in North Carolina on Friday, 17 April. According to WACB, deputies with the Alexander County Sheriff's Office conducted a traffic stop on a black Ford Mustang on highway 64 after observing erratic driving. The driver,
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Two liquid gas-based remote-controlled IEDs detonated in downtown Tehran, Iran on Tuesday night, 14 April. Iran's Tasnim News Agency reported that the explosion shattered the windows of three houses and damaged two vehicles. Both IEDs did not fully explode and no fatalities were reported, however three
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Mine Action Agency of Azerbaijan (ANAMA) has reported that an employee was killed in a landmine incident in the village of Ashaghi Abdurrahmanli on Tuesday 14 April. Mughan Matili, born in 1995, was hit an anti-tank mine while performing his duties, according to news published by the agency. Matili
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A Nigerian armed forces commanding officer and six soldiers were killed in an IED attack in the country's northeastern Borno state on Sunday 12 April. Posting on X, the media information officer of the Joint Task Force (North East), Lieutenant Colonel Sani Uba, said the troops came under
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Security forces in the east Indian state of Manipur recovered another 13 IEDs in the tri-junction area of Maojang, Libung, Gomnom and T Khonunjang in Tengnoupal district, near the Myanmar border, on Saturday 11 April. Posting on their Facebook page, Manipur police also revealed that that recovered two 9mm
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An IED designed to kill a large number of people was found during a routine traffic stop in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday afternoon 7 April. According to the Canadian outlet Global News, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) pulled over a car whose registration plate not only did
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The Chinar Corps of the Indian army and the Jammu-Kashmir police have recovered and neutralised an IED weighing 14.5kg near Chitragam in the Shopian district of Indian-administered Kashmir. In a post on X on Wednesday 8 April, the Chinar Corps wrote that the operation had "averted
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Units of Ukraine's State Emergency Service have cleared nearly 2,000km² of territory and neutralised some 600,000 explosive devices since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, it has been announced. Speaking at a briefing on Thursday 2 April, Serhii Reva, the director of the
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The UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has led a major trial on behalf of the British Army that demonstrated how artificial intelligence models can be rapidly retrained to recognise new threat types and adapt to different environments. Conducted with 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal and
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Police in the Indian state of Manipur recovered 15 IEDs in an operation in the village of Yangoubung, Tengnoupal district, near the border with Myanmar on Saturday, 28 March. The recovered IEDs were destroyed in situ, according to an announcement released on Manipur police's Facebook page the day
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Two siblings, who are understood to be US citizens, have been charged over allegedly placing an IED outside the visitor's centre at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, on 10 March. One suspect has been arrested while the other is understood to have fled to China. The
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), in cooperation with the police, has detained two 16-year-olds suspected of planning an IED attack on a vehicle used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In a statement released on their website on Monday 23 March, the SSU allege that the two residents