At least 32 people were killed and more than 100 injured by a double suicide bombing in the Iraqi capital on Thursday morning (January 21). The Islamic State Group (IS) released a statement saying...
By Verity Hubbard Historically, the focus of blast injury research has been on how an explosive weapon effects the body of a fit male adult combatant. Today, there seems little justification for this...
By Verity Hubbard Between 2014 and 2017, the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor found itself a place under siege. For three long years, Deir ez-Zor was shelled, starved and systematically destroyed. Food was...
By Verity Hubbard Explosive violence challenges, and sometimes shatters, the three fundamental assumptions that provide children with a sense of well-being: that the world is benevolent, it is...
In November 2020, Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) recorded 1,785 deaths and injuries from 229 incidents of explosive violence around the world, as reported in English-language media. Civilians...
By Luke Unger and Verity Hubbard on 15 Dec 2020 In medical slang, the ‘Golden Hour’ refers to the sixty minutes following traumatic injury which can determine a person’s chances of life or death – a...
By Verity Hubbard On 24 November at least 14 people were killed and 45 wounded by two explosions in the city of Bamiyan, central Afghanistan. The two magnetic bombs, one hidden near a marketplace and...
By Verity Hubbard on 11 Nov 2020 A truck laden with explosives was detonated outside a police station in Maiwand district, Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on 8 November. At least 14 people...
By Naomi Graves and Verity Hubbard Somalia is one of the most politically fragile countries in the world. Prolonged tensions between Somalia's federal government, regional authorities and clans,...
By Verity Hubbard On 27 October 2020 (Monday), an explosion at a religious seminary in Pakistan's northern city of Peshawar killed at least 8 people and injured 136 others. The blast struck Jamia...