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On the evening of April 27, 2022, Turkish security forces raided an apartment that served as both a hideout and an IED workshop in Sancaktepe, a suburb in eastern Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, located in the northwest of...

On April 26, 2022, a female suicide bomber initiated her vest PBIED near the entrance gate of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Karachi University, in southern Pakistan. The blast occurred as a minibus transporting a number of Chinese university...

Over the past several weeks, and particularly during the month of April 2022, Ukrainian security forces have documented numerous incidents of booby traps placed by retreating Russian forces, primarily in the Kyiv region, in the north of the country, and...

On April 21, 2022, Colombian Police found a cache of improvised anti-personnel mines, reportedly belonging to the FARC dissident Dagoberto Ramos Front, in the Guásimo rural area in Caloto, in Cauca department. The improvised mines in PVC casings are initiated...

During December 2021, a Burmese YouTube channel posted a series of videos showing how to prepare improvised plastic fragmentation hand grenades from scratch. The grenade bodies are replicas of a standard hand grenade body widely used in Myanmar, both by...

On April 11, 2022, Egyptian security forces operating in northern Sinai found and neutralized an underbelly IED buried underground. The IED consisted of a number of old anti-tank shells converted into an IED to which a pressure plate cased in...

Since armed UAVs first appeared in the battlefield in Myanmar in late 2021, the phenomenon has intensified considerably, especially in April 2022. The use of armed UAVs is unquestionably increasing, and while the technology was initially limited to just a...

On April 5, 2022, an instructional video was posted on the Belarussian pro-Ukraine Sal autem in diaboli Telegram channel, illustrating the neutralization of the safety arming element from a VOG-17 fuze, to enable immediate initiation upon impacting the target when...

Beginning in November 2021, armed militants affiliated with the People’s Defense Force in Myanmar began conducting test firing of improvised rockets from production areas across the country, particularly in Sagaing Region in the northwest. A variety of models of improvised...

On March 20, 2022, bomb disposal officers from the Afrin Security Directorate, which is subordinate to the Syrian National Police and General Security Forces, neutralized an IED found in a residential area in the city of Afrin, in Aleppo Governorate,...

On March 4, 2022, three IEDs and an anti-tank mine were found by the Russian Federal Security Service in the Simferopol and Leninsky districts of Crimea, hidden under construction debris. Two of the IEDs were cased in metal jerrycans and...

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, there has been widespread use by Russian military forces of a variety of different types of rockets and missiles carrying cluster bombs containing submunitions of various types, which have been...

On October 14, 2021, a Bengali-language Telegram channel affiliated with the Islamic State shared an instructional video showing how to prepare two similar models of IEDs with RC initiation systems. The main method of initiation proposed in the video included...