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In early December 2022, reports began to surface from bomb disposal units operating in Ukraine regarding the use of new, improvised booby traps employed by Russian military forces specifically targeting bomb disposal personnel and mine clearers, mainly in areas from...

On December 15, 2022, an IED was planted near the entrance to the Nagaworld-2 hotel-casino complex in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. The area was cordoned off and two hours later, the IED initiated, without being neutralized. The next day,...

On November 22, 2022, at around 12:45 PM, a VBIED initiated outside a police residential complex on Suriya Pradit Street, in Narathiwat Province, in southern Thailand. The complex is located opposite the Narasikhalai High School. Thai media reported that in...

On December 7, 2022, a suicide bomber initiated a PBIED at the entrance to the Astana Anyar Police Station in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The attack occurred while the police officers were gathered for their morning briefing, killing one of...

Man-Portable Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (counter-UAS) were first introduced in the previous decade, mainly as countermeasures used by close security details, and for the protection of major events and strategic infrastructure. However, evidence has shown that with the growing threat of...

On October 29, 2022, two SVBIEDs were used to attack the Somali Ministry of Culture and Higher Education in Mogadishu, resulting in hundreds of casualties and injuries. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the staggered, double attack and celebrated the destruction of...

On August 13, 2022, an IED initiated on 10th and H Street, in Cristo del Consuelo, in the south of the Ecuadorian port city of Guayaquil. Five people were killed and 23 were injured, two seriously. In addition, eight homes,...

Since July 2022, Ukrainian partisan groups have been captured in cities occupied by Russia, in possession of firearms, ammunition, IEDs, and different initiation systems. On July 15, 2022, a group was apprehended in the city of Kherson, in possession of...

On November 19, 2022, an IED initiated inside a rickshaw traveling in Kankanady, on the outskirts of Mangaluru, in Karnataka State, at around 4:30 PM. After the explosion, the remains of a pressure cooker, metal nuts, batteries, wires and a...

On November 14, 2022, a VBIED, reportedly driven by a suicide bomber, initiated in an alley in Hamadeen District, in the Tariq al-Saad neighborhood of the Syrian city of Daraa. As a result of the explosion, damage was caused to...

On November 1, 2022, IID and IED attacks were recorded in over 20 locations in the provinces of Guayas, Esmeraldas and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, in Ecuador. Five police officers were also shot dead in violent episodes, prompted by...

Mortar bombs are the main ammunition used for large armed UAVs in the war in Ukraine, as well as in other conflict zones around the world. When using standard mortar bombs, there are several options for their initiation, including the...

On August 3, 2022, the Myaung Women Warriors – an armed group affiliated with the People’s Defense Force that operates in Myaung Township, in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Myanmar – released footage of their operatives preparing IEDs. The IEDs...

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, improvised multiple rocket launchers mounted on pickups and large trucks have appeared on the front lines, in the vicinity of Kharkiv, Kherson, Kryvyi Rih, Mykolaiv and Donetsk. The Ukrainians’ use of...

On October 8, 2022, at around 6 AM, a powerful explosion occurred on the Crimean road-and-rail Bridge, on the section leading from the Taman Peninsula, in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, to Kerch, in Russia-occupied Crimea. The explosion ignited seven fuel tanks...