Category: Mobius

On New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2021, there was a series of explosions at five locations, in Muang District and Bannang Sata District, in southern Thailand’s Yala Province. Nine IEDs attached to electricity and telephone poles were initiated in the...

On January 15, 2022, the Al-Amaliqa Brigades, an elite militia aligned with the Yemeni National Army, neutralized an array of IEDs planted by the Houthis in Bayhan District, in Shabwah Governorate, in southwestern Yemen.Most of the neutralized IEDs were connected...

On January 3, 2022, the second anniversary of the assassination of Qasem Suleimani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force, there was a series of attacks incorporating loitering munitions and rocket fire by Iran-backed Shiite militias against US...

On January 7, 2022, an RCIED was initiated on a moving vehicle in Unaza E Re, in Tirana, capital of Albania. A known criminal and another passenger were injured in the blast. On December 8, 2021, Albanian police seized two...

During December 2021, improvised Claymore-type mines prepared from blue PVC pipes, with metal ball fragmentation began to appear in the Myanmar arena. The IEDs were documented both by security forces in Myanmar and by operatives of various armed groups affiliated...

On December 13, 2021, an IED initiated at a Russian Orthodox school in the town of Serpukhov, in Moscow Oblast. A former student of the Vvedenskiy Vladychny Gymnasium and 10 other students were seriously injured in the blast. The IED...

Egyptian military forces continue to crack down on Islamic State operatives in Sinai, exposing various weapons and IEDs used in attacks in this arena.Our monitoring of the technical details of the weapons used by the group in the Sinai Peninsula...

In recent months, the Yemeni National Army and forces fighting alongside it have documented numerous incidents in which an armed UAV has been used in battlefields in various areas of the country by Houthi forces, particularly on the frontlines in...

On December 13, 2021, security forces in Myanmar raided a house that served as a hiding place for the underground armed group known as Generation Z Power, in the Mandalay Region of central Myanmar, claiming the group was involved in...

Since October 2021, security forces in northwestern Myanmar have neutralized a large number of multiple IED scenes, planted mainly on roadsides and on roads by militants from various anti-regime groups, identified with the People’s Defense Force Coalition. The IED scenes,...

On October 26, 2021, Philippines Army forces uncovered an IED workshop in Barangay Dolos, Bulan, Sorsogon. In the workshop, components for IEDs of various sizes and configurations were recovered. In the past year, anti-personnel IEDs resembling large Claymore-type mines, produced...

In recent months, we have tracked a number of incidents involving the use of IEDs prepared by forces opposing military rule in Myanmar. Prominent among these was the emergence of high-quality omnidirectional fragmentation IEDs in two incidents documented in May...

On June 27, 2021, two IED attacks struck different areas in Beni city, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu Province. On the morning of June 27, an IED initiated inside a Catholic church, injuring two women. On the evening...