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Throughout 2025 and into 2026, as well as in preceding years, extensive visual documentation emerged from an anti-junta militia known as Karenni Generation Z Army, showcasing their preparation of improvised mortar rounds in field workshops and their deployment in rural...

Between February 11 and March 14, 2026, soldiers of the Joint Task Force South East of the Nigerian Army, operating under Operation UDO KA, conducted a phased offensive into the “Mother Valley” – a forested enclave spanning Orsu and Ihiala...

Throughout the war, Russian and Ukrainian forces have primarily utilized Soviet-era stockpiles of standard shaped charges for the demolition of infrastructure. The Ukrainian theater has seen the introduction of various Western-produced demolition charges designed for a range of applications. These...

In mid-March 2026, Azerbaijan’s State Security Service reported it had thwarted planned IED attacks and intelligence-gathering operations allegedly organized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. According to Azerbaijani authorities, the plot involved smuggling IEDs and C-4 explosives into the country...

On February 25, 2026, Colombian authorities raided an IED workshop in Usme, Bogotá, reportedly operated by the National Liberation Army (ELN). A wide range of materials and equipment consistent with semi-industrial IED fabrication, including grenade bodies, cylindrical, spherical and oval...

On February 13, 2026, a vehicle loaded with barrel IEDs was seized after crashing into a tree in the city of Kohat, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan, apparently near the outer wall of the Kohat Cantonment. According to reports, the...

The recent discovery of multiple underbelly IEDs along the Tame–Arauca road corridor in Arauca Department, eastern Colombia, revealed the use of a modified concealment technique by the National Liberation Army (ELN). In several incidents, IEDs were buried in cavities excavated...

On February 14, Somali National Army and Jubbaland regional forces published images from an operation conducted between Raskamboni and Badhaadhe, near an area identified as Lagta Hoola Wajir, close to the Kenya–Somalia border, targeting Al-Shabaab militants. According to the forces...

On March 2 and March 3, 2026, the Al-Malahem media network, affiliated with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, published a three-part video glorifying the October 21, 2025, attack on the government compound in Al-Mahfad, Yemen, which houses the headquarters of...

The Russia–Ukraine War has led to extensive development in explosive charges and fuzes for loitering munitions. These developments initially consisted of combinations of standard or improvised ammunition fitted with improvised fuzes adapted for this mission, but gradually evolved into a...

Russian military doctrine identifies “anti-transport” and “anti-facility” charges and mines as specialized munitions distinct from standard anti-vehicle or anti-tank systems. These devices are designed for use by combat engineering and special-purpose units during sabotage and demolition missions, including dedicated charges...

On February 4, 2026, during an attempt by an EOD technician to neutralize an IED, an explosion occurred inside a restroom at a gas station on Highway 410 (Pattani–Yala), Talubo Subdistrict, Mueang District, Pattani Province. As a result of the...

In January 2026, multiple incidents were documented in which Ukrainian forces employed new electronic initiation systems not previously observed in operational use. These systems were accompanied by written documentation detailing their mode of operation and integrated safety mechanisms. Additionally, since...

On January 6, 2026, the armed forces of Syria’s new regime, led by Ahmad al-Sharaa, launched a military operation to seize control of the northern Kurdish neighborhoods of Aleppo, in northern Syria, specifically Al-Ashrafiyah and Al-Sheikh Maqsoud, from militants from...

In late January 2026, Iran announced the deployment of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy drone carrier to the Persian Gulf, south of Bandar Abbas. The vessel features a takeoff and landing runway and carries JAS-313, Mohajer-6, and Ababil-3N UAS....