Category: Mobius

 The Sahel region continues to represent a high-threat environment for terrorism, with Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimeen maintaining a high operational tempo, particularly in Mali and Burkina Faso. The group’s TTPs and IED initiation systems remain consistent with previously documented...

The Geran-2 loitering munition has become a central component of Russia’s long-range strike strategy against urban targets and critical infrastructure in Ukraine.Originally introduced as the Iranian Shahed-136, the UAS has since been adapted and is domestically produced in Russia, incorporating...

On March 8, 2025, approximately ten armed assailants launched a coordinated attack outside the Sungai Kolok District Office in Sungai Kolok Municipality, Narathiwat Province. The assailants arrived in a pickup truck and a car, opening fire with assault rifles and...

In recent months, the “PPTM” initiation system designed for use with Ukrainian copies of PTM-3 shaped charge anti-tank mines, has been frequently documented by Russian forces.The mechanism system is specifically tailored for integration with the rectangular casing of the PTM-3...

Since the autumn of 2024, Ukrainian forces have increasingly deployed Shrike FPV drone-based loitering munitions, equipped with IV 001 multifunctional initiation systems. The IV 001 system includes features such as time-delay, self-destruct mechanism, remote-controlled explosive payload initiation, an accelerometer-based impact...

Since mid-2024, documentation has emerged from the Ukrainian battlefield showing the modification of submunitions into ammunition for use with armed UAVs, with improvised fuzes and initiation mechanisms.These submunitions, originally designed for air delivery, are particularly suitable for use with drones...

On March 13, 2025, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation reported that booby-trapped IEDs camouflaged in perfume boxes, intended for delivery to Russian military officials, had been intercepted at Chelyabinsk Airport, in southern Russia, near the border with...

On March 11, 2025, an IED initiated near the railroad station in central Ivano-Frankivsk, in western Ukraine, killing a 17-year-old and seriously injuring a 15-year-old.In recent months, Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly documented a new TTP employed by Russian intelligence: recruiting...

Between February 21 and 23, 2025, three security incidents occurred in Thailand’s southern provinces ahead of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s visit to Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat on February 23. On the evening of February 21, a loud noise resembling...

For many years, the Islamic State has coordinated attacks in Russia via individuals and cells originating from Central Asia and militant-jihad adherents from the Caucasus region. In 2024, the Islamic State and adherents of the group carried out several successful...

On March 8, 2025, 12 football fans were arrested at a bus stop in the Ponte dos Carvalhos neighborhood, in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, in Recife, capital of Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco.IEDs fashioned from fireworks to which metal nails...

Since the end of 2024, increased documentation of small incendiary payloads attached to large rotary-wing UAVs have been found by Russian forces in the Ukrainian arena. These types of large rotary-wing UAVs are usually deployed by Ukrainian forces as armed...

On December 11, 2024, Sudanese Armed Forces soldiers documented a UAV operated by the Rapid Support Forces that was shot down or crashed intact in Sudan. The UAV, deployed as a loitering munition, had a unique configuration that included two...

Since approximately November 2024, documentation of different types of miniature improvised scatterable anti-personnel mines deployed by Ukrainian forces from UAVs in different locations have begun appearing in the Ukrainian combat arena.Several distinct subtypes of these miniature improvised AP mines can...