They were the weapons that were meant to change the IRA war — a deadly present from Libya that allowed the republican quartermasters to fill their bunkers not just with Semtex explosive but a wide ...

Earlier this week, a quantity of Semtex explosive was discovered in Maeve House, one of the seven tower blocks in the New Lodge area of north Belfast. The explosive material weighed 1.5kg — just over ...

French anti-terrorist officers are searching for 28kg (61lb) of Semtex explosive missing from a depot in the suburbs of the city of Lyon. France's interior ministry confirmed an investigation was ...

Dissident republican terrorists are boasting they have more than a tonne of Semtex plastic explosive that escaped the decommissioning process and could now be used against mainland targets.

Police are investigating whether the bomb that killed a police officer in Northern Ireland was made using explosives supplied to the IRA by Col Gaddafi's regime in Libya. Forensic PSNI officers work ...

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