TGA0757 Increasing Attempts to Smuggle Standard Weapons into Israel
October 4, 2023In recent months, Israel has observed a notable upswing in the smuggling of standard weapons. These illicit incidents have manifested across diverse contexts, encompassing smuggling operations originating from the Jordanian border, as well as a linked incident involving Lebanese Hezbollah....
Mobius report 67/2023 – Warring Ethnic Groups Acquire Standard Munition Items, Manipur, India
October 4, 2023In recent months, since June 2023, standard and improvised weapons have been documented in use by the parties involved in the violent conflict in Manipur. Among the documented munition items were hand grenades and rifle grenades, mortar bombs and other...
Mobius report 66/2023 – RCIEDs Neutralized in Iligan, the Philippines
September 29, 2023On September 3, 2023, four IEDs were discovered in a backpack in a clothing store adjacent to a mall in the city of Iligan, in Northern Mindanao, in the Philippines. According to authorities, the IEDs, which were connected to RC...
TGA0756 Weaponized UAVs in the War in Sudan
September 29, 2023From the early days of the fighting in April 2023, the armed conflict in Sudan has seen a growing use of UAVs on the battlefield. At first, the warring parties deployed armed UAVs that released bomblets over targets. Among the...
TGA0755 Camouflage Textile with Metallized Polyester Countermeasure against Commercial UAV Thermal Imaging, Ukraine
September 29, 2023In recent months, camouflage pattern textile with a layer of metallized polyester or similar material sewn into it has been documented in the war in Ukraine, intended for use as a camouflage countermeasure against commercial UAV thermal imaging tools. The...
TGA0754 – Taliban Weapons Documented in Use by Jamaat Ansarullah, Tajikistan
September 22, 2023On September 5, 2023, Tajik security forces raided a hideout of the Jamaat Ansarullah group in Darvoz District, in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, in central-southern Tajikistan, where three of its militants who infiltrated from Afghanistan had taken refuge. Among the items...
Mobius report 65/2023 – IED Concealed in Sandals, Afghanistan
September 20, 2023On August 28, 2023, documentation of a sandal IED surfaced on Afghan social media, with reports claiming it was intended to be used by a Tajik Islamic State Khorasan Province suicide bomber in a PBIED assassination targeting the Taliban’s senior...
Hydra report – August 2023
September 14, 2023This month’s In Focus analyzes IS core’s recent announcement regarding the death of the group’s leader and the new spokesman’s unusual remarks on the circumstances of his death and the alleged involvement of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in it. The series...
TGA0753 – Intensified Ukrainian Loitering Munition Attacks Targeting Central Moscow
September 4, 2023In recent months, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have significantly increased the number of loitering munition attacks targeting central Moscow. In most cases, the UAS were downed en route, in districts located closer to Moscow Oblast. However, some reached the...
