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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...

On March 4, 2022, Donetsk People’s Republic forces, in the framework of Operation Mariupol Caldron, recovered improvised drone bomblets, as well as various standard weapons, including mortar shells, at a “Bears” militia base specializing in UAV operations in the village...

On March 1, 2022, Philippines security forces raided an Islamic State compound in Maguing, in Lanao del Sur Province, in the Philippines. Large quantities of weapons were seized, including standard weapons and ammunition, as well as modified weapons based on...

On February 23, 2022, the Lebanese Interior Ministry announced it had thwarted a complex suicide bombing attack by a Palestinian Islamic State cell from the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah religious centers in Beirut. According to...

On February 17, 2022, the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces’ Manbij Military Council released documentation of two IEDs seized from a Syrian citizen, allegedly operated by agents of Turkey’s National Intelligence, and intended to undermine military forces and targets identified with...

On February 23, 2022, the Lebanese Interior Ministry announced it had thwarted a complex suicide bombing attack by a Palestinian Islamic State cell from the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah religious centers in Beirut. According to...