Category: Reports

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...

Beginning in December 2021, and especially during January and February 2022, as part of the improvised weapons production efforts of the many armed groups affiliated with the People’s Defense Force throughout Myanmar, particularly in Sagaing Region, in the northwest of...

On January 16, 2022, the Venezuelan Army launched Operation Bolivarian Shield 22, aimed at rooting out Colombian militant groups operating in Apure, Venezuela, bordering Colombia, following an incursion by the ELN into the town of La Gabarra, in Guasdualito, Apure...

On December 14, 2021, two Colombian bomb technicians were killed while handling an IED at Camilo Daza International Airport in Cucuta,  in Norte de Santander department, Colombia. The IED, which was concealed in a suitcase, was discovered during a search...

On February 3, 2022, a number of 122 mm rockets were fired from the Al-Saha neighborhood in Mosul at a Turkish base known as Zilkan Camp, located near Bashiqa, in northern Iraq. According to reports, all the rockets fell outside...

On January 30, 2022, security forces neutralized an array of roadside IEDs planted by Popular Defense Force operatives on a road in Letpadaung, in Salingya Township, in Sagaing Region, in northwestern Myanmar.Ten of the IEDs were cased in cast, sealed...