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On February 17, 2023, at approximately 7:10 PM, armed gunmen attacked the five-story Karachi Police Office headquarters, located on Shahrah-e-Faisal Road, in the Saddar neighborhood, in the heart of Pakistan’s capital city, using firearms and various other weapons.Five people were...

On January 30, 2023, an explosion occurred at the Police Lines Mosque in Peshawar, located in a secure compound housing numerous government facilities. Over 100 people were killed and 200 more were injured, with most of the victims being police...

POM-3 scatterable bounding mines first appeared in the war in Ukraine in late March 2022. Since then, additional POM-3 mines have been documented in minefields, as well as internal parts from the remotely deployed cassette delivery system that launches the...

In the Russia-Ukraine war, we are witnessing the extensive use of UAVs deployed in attack roles by both Ukraine and Russia. The armed UAVs are mostly fitted with improvised bomblets or modified standard ammunition items. In order for munitions dropped...

On February 3, 2023, an IED hidden inside a loudspeaker system was discovered and neutralized in Aungmyethazan Township, in central Myanmar’s Mandalay Region. The next day, the PDF-aligned “Myanmar Islamic Commando – PDF” militia published documentation of the intact speaker...

Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, fixed-wing armed UAVs fitted with custom-made HE payloads produced by private companies have been employed by both sides in the conflict. Albeit less accurate than rotary-wing armed UAS, other attack functions make these...

On January 21, 2023, an Iran-backed Shiite militia operating in Iraq claimed responsibility for an attack in which three UAS deployed as loitering munitions attacked the Al-Tanf Garrison – a US base with a contingent of Syrian opposition forces –...

During December 2022, and January 2023, an armed militia operating in Magway Region, in western Myanmar, published documentation of dozens of Claymore-type mines manufactured by the group’s operatives, in addition to other improvised weapons, such as mortars and mortar rounds,...

On January 22, 2023, at 1:25 AM, a work accident occurred when a militant was attempting to plant an IED at a pumping station at the Suan Si Muang Dam in Yala Province, in southern Thailand. The militant was injured...

Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, new technologies have been developing at a rapid pace, and are being evidenced on the battlefield by both sides. Without a doubt, UAVs are playing a special role in this conflict, providing the...

Not long after the Russian military forces began operating Iranian Geran-2 / Shahed-136 unmanned aerial systems deployed as loitering munitions during September 2022, and in particular, in several main waves in October and December, attacks using these weapons increased, in...

In recent years, the use of UAVs in armed drone configurations has become a common and tactical TTP used by drug cartel groups in Mexico, especially the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, which has been engaged in a violent struggle against...

During December 2022, an investigation into the June 23, 2021, VBIED attack outside the home of Hafiz Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and leader of Jama’at-ud-Da’wah in Johar, Lahore, Pakistan, was published. As a result of the explosion, three people were...

On December 22, 2022, a video of an anti-tilt switch and a tutorial for assembling a similar item were published in an Iranian anti-regime Telegram channel, suggesting to use it with a TATP recipe published earlier. These instructional videos, along...

Since 2014, two Chechen battalions have been operating in Ukraine on the side of the Ukrainian forces, namely, the Johar Dudayev Battalion and the Sheikh Mansur Battalion. Since the Russian invasion in February 2022, the battalions have fought against Russian...