Mobius report – NGV-Based VBIED, Mosul, Iraq
June 2, 2022On April 28, 2022, a natural gas vehicle parked near a cafe in an alley near Al-Majmu’ah al-Thaqafiyya Street, in Mosul, Iraq, exploded. One person was killed in the blast and two others were injured.Initially, the incident was reported as...
Mobius report – IED Workshop Raided, Istanbul, Turkey
June 2, 2022On the evening of April 27, 2022, Turkish security forces raided an apartment that served as both a hideout and an IED workshop in Sancaktepe, a suburb in eastern Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, located in the northwest of...
Mobius report – Female BLA Suicide Bomber Targets Chinese University Staff, Karachi, Pakistan
June 2, 2022On April 26, 2022, a female suicide bomber initiated her vest PBIED near the entrance gate of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Karachi University, in southern Pakistan. The blast occurred as a minibus transporting a number of Chinese university...
TGA0693 – Three Coordinated ISKP Attacks Targeting Shia Hazara, Mazar-i Sharif, Afghanistan
June 2, 2022On May 25, 2022, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province carried out three simultaneous IED attacks targeting three minivans transporting Shia Hazaras in Mazar-i Sharif. Two of the attacks occurred within a few minutes of each other in PD-10, while...
TGA0692 – Re-Appearance of IED Attacks on Buses in the Philippines
June 2, 2022Since January 2022, there have been three separate IED attacks targeting buses in the Philippines. All three attacks had a similar TTP – the IED was placed in the back of the bus under one of the seats and was...
TGA0691 – IS-Aligned Media Unit Publishes Manual for the Production of Anthrax Spores
June 2, 2022Promotion poster for Al-Saqri Foundation’s anthrax manual, the fourth section in the media unit’s “Easy toxin / biological warfare” series In early May 2022, the veteran Islamic State-aligned online media unit, the Al-Saqri Foundation for Military Sciences, published a new...
TGA0690 Russian Orlan-10 Reconnaissance Drone Modified to Carry Bomblets
May 25, 2022Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Orlan-10 drones have been documented on numerous occasions in all areas of conflict across the country. Most of the documentation shows the more familiar use of the Orlan-10 as a...
TGA0689 – The Use of MANPADS with Improvised Batteries, Gaza Strip
May 3, 2022As part of a multi-scene escalation between the Palestinians and Israel in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip that began in March 2022, a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel on the evening of April...
TGA0688 – Explosives Concealed in Food Products
May 3, 2022During the past month, two attempts to smuggle explosives from Ecuador to Colombia were thwarted. In both cases, the items were camouflaged inside or among food items, as well as other items. In the first incident, bars of gel explosive...
