On November 18, 2024, Internal Security Forces affiliated with the Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria neutralized an IED in Deir al-Zour Governorate, in eastern Syria. The IED was cased in a transparent square box, covered in transparent tape spray-painted brown, and black insulating tape, connected to an RC initiation system cased in a black box, with a foldable rubber antenna. A different IED – a linear shaped charge – with an identical initiation system, was neutralized in the same area not long before. These initiation systems, albeit improvised, appear to be produced in a serial production line, with a relatively high level of finish. Identical characteristics of these systems documented over the years in Syria indicate with high probability the Syrian Arab Army is responsible for their production, and uses them as part of its covert asymmetric warfare waged against opposition groups in areas where their security control is unstable.
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