Tag: IED

In light of recent events in Niger where four US Special Forces soldiers were killed, many people are wondering: who are these terror groups operating in Africa? How many terrorist groups are in Africa? There is no short story to the history of terrorism in Africa, and there have long been Islamic terror groups operating […]

On October 23rd, 1983, an explosion ripped through an American barracks in Beirut, killing 220 U. S. Marines, 18 Navy sailors, and 3 Army soldiers.  58 French peacekeepers and 6 civilians were also killed in the blast. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon, and the country’s largest city.  Lebanon lies sandwiched between Syria to the […]

Stephen Powers, a 30-year-old man from Gloucester, Virginia, was arrested on Friday and charged after allegedly detonating an improvised explosive device (IED) near Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. No one was killed or injured in the blast, and Powers has already been charged with possessing and using an explosive device and committing an act of terrorism according […]

Last Saturday, a suspicious package was found in Middletown, Virginia.  It was during a Civil War reenactment, where actors played both soldiers in the Confederate and the Union armies battling it out at Cedar Creek.  The real battle took place at the same location on October 19th, 1864, where the Confederates unleashed a surprise attack […]

An American service member in Iraq was killed on Sunday by an improvised roadway bomb, the Pentagon said Monday. A second service member was injured, the Defense Department said. Pentagon officials declined to release the identities of the victims or the location of the bombing, pending notification of family members. Read the whole story from […]

Three United Nations troops were killed and five others were seriously injured on Sunday by an explosion in Mali, underscoring the dangers facing the four-year-old peacekeeping mission in the country. The forces were escorting a convoy around 7 a.m. along a road connecting the village of Anéfis to the city of Gao in northern Mali when […]

A tabloid in the UK posted an inflammatory article this morning, claiming that they had purchased a “jihadi bomb kit” like the one used in the Manchester Arena terrorist attack off of Amazon for only £95 ($128), with no “security check” or “warning to the authorities” that the purchase was made. People may recall that […]

British police on Tuesday arrested a third suspect over the bombing of a packed London Underground train that injured 30 people last week. The 25-year-old man was detained by anti-terror officers in Newport, Wales, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement, without divulging any identifying information on the suspect. “A search is taking place at […]

A Syrian man was on Monday identified as one of two people arrested over the bombing of a London tube train last week. Yahyah Farroukh, a 21-year-old originally from Damascus, was pictured being stopped by police outside a fried chicken shop in the Hounslow area of west London on Saturday night. He and another man, […]

This is how he repaid the infidels: A second suspect was arrested on Saturday in connection with the subway attack at London’s Parsons Green station that left 30 people injured, officials announced on Sunday as the city’s terror threat level is downgraded to “severe.” A 21-year-old man was arrested late Saturday night in Hounslow in […]

Terror returned to the UK capital as an IED went off in a subway train in London. The device injured several people and made the British police go in high gear with armed response teams swarming the Parsons Green station in Southwest London. At first it was unclear whether the incident was terror related but […]

Continuing from the previous Ukraine video, after completing the raid we continue with our standard observation and report mission. You’ll notice, if you hadn’t already, that the terrain is a mixture of suburban neighborhoods and overgrown fields. It almost gives an idea of what a war on American soil would look like in a sort […]