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On August 9, 2023, two armed groups affiliated with the People’s Defense Force operating in the Mandalay Region, in central Myanmar, published a video showing its members preparing the bodies of improvised stick grenades. The grenades, of a uniform model,...

In mid-February 2023, Puntland security forces in Somalia neutralized RCIEDs at two different locations. The area where the IEDs were found, and their configuration and initiation systems, were dissimilar to IEDs typically used by Al-Shabaab in northern Somalia and other...

On April 15, 2023, an instructional video was published on a Ukrainian YouTube channel, explaining in detail how to convert a standard PG-7L fuze into an improvised mechanical base-detonating fuse. The modified fuse enables the PG warhead to be used...

On July 9, 2023, Kenyan and Somali forces killed over 30 Al-Shabaab militants in Weel-Maarow village, in the Lower Jubba region, in Somalia, near the Kenya-Somalia border. They seized a minibus filled with a substantial quantity of explosive materials, IED...

In the last two years, there has been a gradual escalation in the West Bank, which began in March 2021, and increased toward March 2022. As a result, Operation Break the Wave was launched, which actually continued until the last...

On May 5, 2023, a pro-Russia Telegram channel published a Russian translation of a Ukrainian instructional manual for various booby trap methods for the UZRG fuze of the F-1 hand grenade. Aside from the grenades, the booby traps documented in...

In recent months, FPV racing drones employed as improvised loitering munitions have been documented in use by Russian forces fitted with an improvised payload comprising a PVC pipe fragmentation IED. The payload contains a gray plastic explosive with added metal...

On June 21, 2023, images and videos of a downed Ukrainian improvised loitering munition appeared on the Telegram channel of a Russian journalist. The improvised loitering munition, downed in  Shebekinsky District, in Belgorod Oblast, comprised a cardboard frame, a flight...

On July 4, 2023, Ansar al-Sharia, aka Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, published a video featuring attacks by the group from the past year, targeting UAE-backed forces more commonly known as the Southern Transitional Council and Security Belt Forces. The...

On June 24, 2023, a truck carrying weapons concealed in a cargo of sand was intercepted in Morelia, in Caquetá Department, in southern Colombia. The recovered items included a mortar, mortar bombs, and additional ammunition. While all of the weapons...

On January 22, 2023, Al-Shabaab attacked Mogadishu City Hall, located in a protected government compound in Somalia’s capital city. The attack commenced with a PBIED initiated against a metal side entrance door in the wall of the compound, to enable...

In June 2023, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Force revealed in Iranian state media their testing of the large Arbaeen quadcopter, designated for combat and other missions. The Arbaeen is identical to armed UAVs documented in attacks in Syria...

On May 17, 2023, members of the Taliban’s 313 Central Army Corps seized a weapons cache in Siah Gard District, in northern Afghanistan’s Parwan Province.An assortment of anti-personnel mines, igniters, detonating cord and safety fuse was documented, all from different...

On April 10, 2023, a motorcycle VBIED was initiated next to the vehicle of a senior Quetta police officer near Qandhari Bazar, in Quetta, in Balochistan, Pakistan. As a result of the explosion, two police officers and two civilians were...

On June 5, 2023, a YouTube channel affiliated with the Balochistan Liberation Army that features tutorial videos for tactical training published a step-by-step instructional video of the preparation of an RCIED. The BLA was ranked the fifth most deadly terrorist...