Category: Reports

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,...

On February 8, 2022, Colombian security forces neutralized a dump truck VBIED in Tibú, in Norte de Santander, in northern Colombia, bordering Venezuela. The truck concealed a mortar firing platform with numerous improvised mortars of different diameters, as well as...

On the night of January 28, 2022, on the eve of the Chinese New Year celebrations, at least 20 small IEDs were emplaced throughout the city of Yala in southern Thailand. Most of them initiated. The next day, between the...

The year 2022 was met in Mogadishu, Somalia, with five IED attacks against various targets in early January 2022. At the start of the month, an SVBIED  initiated as it approached a police checkpoint. About 10 days later, an SVBIED...