On December 27, 2022, municipal authorities of Coahuayana reported the discovery of a chemical dispersing IED array comprising jars of carbamate insecticides attached to sticks of dynamite, daisy-chained with electric wire planted at intervals of ten meters on a narrow...
On February 17, 2023, at approximately 7:10 PM, armed gunmen attacked the five-story Karachi Police Office headquarters, located on Shahrah-e-Faisal Road, in the Saddar neighborhood, in the heart of Pakistan’s capital city, using firearms and various other weapons.Five people were...
On January 30, 2023, an explosion occurred at the Police Lines Mosque in Peshawar, located in a secure compound housing numerous government facilities. Over 100 people were killed and 200 more were injured, with most of the victims being police...
POM-3 scatterable bounding mines first appeared in the war in Ukraine in late March 2022. Since then, additional POM-3 mines have been documented in minefields, as well as internal parts from the remotely deployed cassette delivery system that launches the...
In the Russia-Ukraine war, we are witnessing the extensive use of UAVs deployed in attack roles by both Ukraine and Russia. The armed UAVs are mostly fitted with improvised bomblets or modified standard ammunition items. In order for munitions dropped...
On February 3, 2023, an IED hidden inside a loudspeaker system was discovered and neutralized in Aungmyethazan Township, in central Myanmar’s Mandalay Region. The next day, the PDF-aligned “Myanmar Islamic Commando – PDF” militia published documentation of the intact speaker...
Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, fixed-wing armed UAVs fitted with custom-made HE payloads produced by private companies have been employed by both sides in the conflict. Albeit less accurate than rotary-wing armed UAS, other attack functions make these...
On January 21, 2023, an Iran-backed Shiite militia operating in Iraq claimed responsibility for an attack in which three UAS deployed as loitering munitions attacked the Al-Tanf Garrison – a US base with a contingent of Syrian opposition forces –...
During January 2023, leaders of far-right parties in Denmark and the Netherlands burned and tore up copies of the Quran, triggering a large-scale wave of responses, including statements of condemnation and numerous protests around the world. Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State were quick to condemn these acts, but...