Mobius report 17/2022 – IS Plot Incorporating Three Simultaneous PBIED Attacks Thwarted, Beirut, Lebanon
March 10, 2022On February 23, 2022, the Lebanese Interior Ministry announced it had thwarted a complex suicide bombing attack by a Palestinian Islamic State cell from the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah religious centers in Beirut. According to...
Mobius report 16/2022 – Improvised Shoulder-Fired Launchers, Myanmar
March 10, 2022Beginning in December 2021, and especially during January and February 2022, as part of the improvised weapons production efforts of the many armed groups affiliated with the People’s Defense Force throughout Myanmar, particularly in Sagaing Region, in the northwest of...
Mobius report 14/2022 – TANCOL Weapons and Infrastructure Destroyed in FANB Operation in Venezuela
March 10, 2022On January 16, 2022, the Venezuelan Army launched Operation Bolivarian Shield 22, aimed at rooting out Colombian militant groups operating in Apure, Venezuela, bordering Colombia, following an incursion by the ELN into the town of La Gabarra, in Guasdualito, Apure...
Mobius report 13/2022 – Second IED Targeting Bomb Technicians in Colombia and Thailand
March 10, 2022On December 14, 2021, two Colombian bomb technicians were killed while handling an IED at Camilo Daza International Airport in Cucuta, in Norte de Santander department, Colombia. The IED, which was concealed in a suitcase, was discovered during a search...
Mobius report 12/2022 – Truck with Rocket Fire Platform and Self-Destruct Mechanism, Iraq
March 9, 2022On February 3, 2022, a number of 122 mm rockets were fired from the Al-Saha neighborhood in Mosul at a Turkish base known as Zilkan Camp, located near Bashiqa, in northern Iraq. According to reports, all the rockets fell outside...
Mobius report 11/2022 – Complex IED Array, Myanmar
March 8, 2022On January 30, 2022, security forces neutralized an array of roadside IEDs planted by Popular Defense Force operatives on a road in Letpadaung, in Salingya Township, in Sagaing Region, in northwestern Myanmar.Ten of the IEDs were cased in cast, sealed...
Mobius report 10/2022 – New ELN Dump Truck VBIED Mortar Firing Platform, Tibu, Colombia
February 23, 2022On February 8, 2022, Colombian security forces neutralized a dump truck VBIED in Tibú, in Norte de Santander, in northern Colombia, bordering Venezuela. The truck concealed a mortar firing platform with numerous improvised mortars of different diameters, as well as...
Hydra Report – Recent IS Developments in Al-Sham
February 22, 2022The passing month has been hectic for the Islamic State Al-Sham (Syria) Province, highlighted by its most profound attack in recent years and the elimination of IS leader Abdullah Qardash. On January 20, 2022, the group carried out a complex...
Mobius report 9/2022 – IED Attacks Mar Chinese New Year Celebrations, Yala, Thailand
February 16, 2022On the night of January 28, 2022, on the eve of the Chinese New Year celebrations, at least 20 small IEDs were emplaced throughout the city of Yala in southern Thailand. Most of them initiated.The next day, between the afternoon...
