On January 3, 2022, the second anniversary of the assassination of Qasem Suleimani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force, there was a series of attacks incorporating loitering munitions and rocket fire by Iran-backed Shiite militias against US...
On January 7, 2022, an RCIED was initiated on a moving vehicle in Unaza E Re, in Tirana, capital of Albania. A known criminal and another passenger were injured in the blast. On December 8, 2021, Albanian police seized two...
During December 2021, improvised Claymore-type mines prepared from blue PVC pipes, with metal ball fragmentation began to appear in the Myanmar arena. The IEDs were documented both by security forces in Myanmar and by operatives of various armed groups affiliated...
The report reviews recipes for the synthesis of straight dynamite consisting of potassium nitrate (KNO3), nitroglycerin (NG), carbon (charcoal) and a sodium carbonate stabilizer.Straight dynamite, or nongelatinous dynamite with an active base, constitutes an improvement over dynamite with an inactive...
On December 13, 2021, an IED initiated at a Russian Orthodox school in the town of Serpukhov, in Moscow Oblast. A former student of the Vvedenskiy Vladychny Gymnasium and 10 other students were seriously injured in the blast. The IED...
During December 2021, there were two separate incidents involving attempted attacks on courts in India by criminals. The first case, on December 9, 2021, was a failed attempt to assassinate a lawyer, motivated by revenge, at Rohini Court in New...
The year 2021 saw major growth in the significance of IS provinces in Africa to the group’s central command, manifested both by the attention given to the African provinces in IS propaganda and by developments on the ground. In terms of the latter,...
Egyptian military forces continue to crack down on Islamic State operatives in Sinai, exposing various weapons and IEDs used in attacks in this arena.Our monitoring of the technical details of the weapons used by the group in the Sinai Peninsula...
In recent months, the Yemeni National Army and forces fighting alongside it have documented numerous incidents in which an armed UAV has been used in battlefields in various areas of the country by Houthi forces, particularly on the frontlines in...