In the course of the 2026 war between Iran, the United States, and Israel, which began on February 28, 2026, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps employed the Hadid-110 loitering munition operationally for the first time during March 2026. Additionally, Iranian...
On February 13, 2026, a vehicle loaded with barrel IEDs was seized after crashing into a tree in the city of Kohat, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan, apparently near the outer wall of the Kohat Cantonment. According to reports, the...
The recent discovery of multiple underbelly IEDs along the Tame–Arauca road corridor in Arauca Department, eastern Colombia, revealed the use of a modified concealment technique by the National Liberation Army (ELN). In several incidents, IEDs were buried in cavities excavated...
In late 2025, GOT TV emerged on numerous mainstream and fringe media platforms, promoting content associated with the Islamic State’s Central African Province and opposing Uganda’s secular state and civic institutions. GOT relays ISCAP-related news and interprets IS media for...
The militant threat landscape in Francophone regions, particularly in Mauritius, is defined by a sophisticated digital propaganda infrastructure where core Arabic messages are translated into other languages to reach broader audiences. This online radicalization, fueled by French-language propaganda on social...
A confrontation with Syrian security forces in northern Idlib Governorate on October 21-22, 2025, highlighted the presence of Firqat al-Ghuraba, a faction of French-speaking jihadists active in Syria since 2013. While many foreign jihadist organizations in Syria eventually integrated into...
On February 14, Somali National Army and Jubbaland regional forces published images from an operation conducted between Raskamboni and Badhaadhe, near an area identified as Lagta Hoola Wajir, close to the Kenya–Somalia border, targeting Al-Shabaab militants. According to the forces...
On March 2 and March 3, 2026, the Al-Malahem media network, affiliated with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, published a three-part video glorifying the October 21, 2025, attack on the government compound in Al-Mahfad, Yemen, which houses the headquarters of...
The Russia–Ukraine War has led to extensive development in explosive charges and fuzes for loitering munitions. These developments initially consisted of combinations of standard or improvised ammunition fitted with improvised fuzes adapted for this mission, but gradually evolved into a...