Category: Reports

Indirect fire capabilities, or high trajectory weapons, entered production and use by armed militias across Myanmar in mid-2021, gaining momentum toward the end of the year. Significant development was made mainly in Sagaing Region, in the northwest of the country....

On May 30, 2022, an IED initiation badly damaged a vehicle owned by the family of a pro-Russia politician in the center of Melitopol city. The politician was not in the vehicle at the time. Several people were reportedly injured...

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the use of all kinds of ammunition with armed UAVs has been documented, most of which were fragmentation bomblets with different point-detonating nose fuzes.On July 7, 2022, a Ukrainian mechanical...

Armed drones have become common offensive weapons used by Ukrainian forces in recent months. Commercial payload dispensers were initially used to turn these platforms into armed drones, but more recently, there has been increased documentation of improvised and 3D printed...

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 as...

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...