Between April and May 2023, Russian and Ukrainian forces intercepted several fixed-wing UAVs of a similar configuration, in different areas in southern and northeastern Ukraine. These UAVs were not fitted with cameras or explosive payloads. The presence of components identified...
On January 22, 2023, Al-Shabaab attacked Mogadishu City Hall, located in a protected government compound in Somalia’s capital city. The attack commenced with a PBIED initiated against a metal side entrance door in the wall of the compound, to enable...
In June 2023, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Force revealed in Iranian state media their testing of the large Arbaeen quadcopter, designated for combat and other missions. The Arbaeen is identical to armed UAVs documented in attacks in Syria...
On November 30, 2022, a rickshaw SVBIED rammed into a police truck escorting a polio vaccination team in Quetta, Balochistan, killing four people and wounding more than 30. Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred just two days after the launch...
On May 17, 2023, members of the Taliban’s 313 Central Army Corps seized a weapons cache in Siah Gard District, in northern Afghanistan’s Parwan Province.An assortment of anti-personnel mines, igniters, detonating cord and safety fuse was documented, all from different...
On April 10, 2023, a motorcycle VBIED was initiated next to the vehicle of a senior Quetta police officer near Qandhari Bazar, in Quetta, in Balochistan, Pakistan. As a result of the explosion, two police officers and two civilians were...
On June 5, 2023, a YouTube channel affiliated with the Balochistan Liberation Army that features tutorial videos for tactical training published a step-by-step instructional video of the preparation of an RCIED. The BLA was ranked the fifth most deadly terrorist...
During the past year, following an increase in Naxalite activity in their main areas of operation, and subsequent raids by security forces, numerous documentation of IEDs and IED components used by the Naxalites, particularly in the states of Chhattisgarh and...
On May 25, 2023, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation announced their capture of a Ukrainian sabotage cell responsible for planning IED attacks against electrical infrastructure targets in several regions in Russia.According to the FSB, on the eve...