Category: Mobius

On June 17, 2022, a large Al-Shabaab force attacked the Sufi town of Baxdo, in the Galguduud region of Galmudug State, in central Somalia. Somali security forces stationed in the area, along with armed local forces, waged a battle with...

Between April 30 and June 19, 2022, the Khin-U People Defense Force, a militia operating in Khin-U Township, in Sagaing Region, in northwestern Myanmar, released documentation of its operatives preparing a singular IED model. All of the preparation and assembly...

On April 22, 2022, Turkish security forces thwarted an attempted smuggling of explosives from Syria to Turkey near ​​the border town of Ras al-Ayn, in Al-Hasakah Governorate, in northeastern Syria. Acting on intelligence information, security forces that arrived in the...

On April 18, 2022, Turkey launched a new phase of the extensive military operation it is conducting in the area close to its southern border, in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, aimed at eradicating the presence of militants of the Kurdistan...

During 2022, particularly between March and May, EOD personnel from the Yemeni Armed Forces and deminers from civilian mine-clearing organizations in Yemen neutralized a large number of bounding mines in the country. Bounding mines have been in service in Yemen...

On May 18, 2022, a video was posted on the WarGonzo Telegram channel, demonstrating the use of an RGD-5 grenade as ammunition for an armed UAV against enemy targets was posted by soldiers from the 61st Marine Brigade of the...

On May 18, 2022, a joint team of Turkish and Syrian security forces arrested two women wearing two identical PBIEDs in the city of Afrin, in Aleppo Governorate, in northwestern Syria. Each IED was cased in a lumbar support belt,...

On May 8, 2022, acting on information received by the police, two suspects were arrested in the village of Naushehra Pannuan, in Tarn Taran District, in the state of Punjab, in northern India. A blue bag with a rectangular IED...

On April 28, 2022, a natural gas vehicle parked near a cafe in an alley near Al-Majmu’ah al-Thaqafiyya Street, in Mosul, Iraq, exploded. One person was killed in the blast and two others were injured. Initially, the incident was reported...

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...