Since violent armed clashes erupted in Sudan on April 15, 2023, the Sudanese Armed Forces have occasionally used Non-Standard Technical Vehicles mounted with unguided air-to-surface rocket launching pods, originally intended for use with aircraft. While technicals mounted with various weapons...
In mid-February 2023, Puntland security forces in Somalia neutralized RCIEDs at two different locations. The area where the IEDs were found, and their configuration and initiation systems, were dissimilar to IEDs typically used by Al-Shabaab in northern Somalia and other...
This month’s In Focus analyzes how Al-Qaeda affiliated chat rooms recently published a series of Islamic State documents and memoranda that provide a rare inside look at secret internal IS correspondence not revealed by IS due to its sensitivity. The...
On April 15, 2023, an instructional video was published on a Ukrainian YouTube channel, explaining in detail how to convert a standard PG-7L fuze into an improvised mechanical base-detonating fuse. The modified fuse enables the PG warhead to be used...
On July 9, 2023, Kenyan and Somali forces killed over 30 Al-Shabaab militants in Weel-Maarow village, in the Lower Jubba region, in Somalia, near the Kenya-Somalia border. They seized a minibus filled with a substantial quantity of explosive materials, IED...
In the last two years, there has been a gradual escalation in the West Bank, which began in March 2021, and increased toward March 2022. As a result, Operation Break the Wave was launched, which actually continued until the last...
On May 5, 2023, a pro-Russia Telegram channel published a Russian translation of a Ukrainian instructional manual for various booby trap methods for the UZRG fuze of the F-1 hand grenade. Aside from the grenades, the booby traps documented in...
In recent months, FPV racing drones employed as improvised loitering munitions have been documented in use by Russian forces fitted with an improvised payload comprising a PVC pipe fragmentation IED. The payload contains a gray plastic explosive with added metal...
On June 21, 2023, images and videos of a downed Ukrainian improvised loitering munition appeared on the Telegram channel of a Russian journalist. The improvised loitering munition, downed in Shebekinsky District, in Belgorod Oblast, comprised a cardboard frame, a flight...