On October 11, 2023, a Russian Telegram channel suggested using several large barrels filled with standard ordnance, placed in dug-out pits, to create a large kill-zone area for convoys and armored vehicles. Barrel IEDs in the Ukrainian arena have been...
On October 3, 2023, several police officers were injured, one seriously, after they were called to investigate a banner hung on a bush near Moo No. 6, Ban Pa Sak area, Panare District, in Pattani Province, in southern Thailand. The...
This month’s In Focus analyzes Al-Qaeda’s increased propaganda efforts on the occasion of the commemoration of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The propaganda focused on inciting more attacks against the West, and military strategy theory by the AQ leader.In the...
On September 24, 2023, Iran’s state media channels reported a large 28-man Islamic State militant network had been recently arrested in a coordinated operation in Tehran, Alborz and West Azerbaijan provinces.The majority of weapons seized during the raid were firearms,...
On August 28, 2023, a video was published on Russian Telegram channels that describes an FPV-based improvised loitering munition whose main payload is a PG-9 warhead modified in accordance with the mission to allow it to explode upon impact with...
On September 24, 2023, several dozen ethnic Serbian gunmen stormed the village of Banjska, in Zvečan municipality, in northern Kosovo, ambushing a police patrol and killing a police officer. Weapons recovered after the attack included various former Yugoslav and Serbian...
In recent months, there have been a number of incidents involving the use of sticky IEDs by the Al-Shabaab group, targeting high-ranking officials in Somalia. This assassination TTP is also intended to foment chaos among the local population. Al-Shabaab, a...
On September 11, 2023, in the framework of Bolivarian Shield Operation Catatumbo Lightning 2023, the Armed Forces of Venezuela raided six camps operated by Colombian militant groups in Venezuela.One of the camps, in Jose Maria Semprún municipality, in Zulia State,...
On September 13, 2023, a work accident occurred as an IED was being placed on the security fence on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. As a result of the explosion, six Palestinian militants were killed. In recent...