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...
TGA0677 – Remote-Controlled Rifle used in Targeted Assassination, Dnipro, Ukraine
February 6, 2022On December 8, 2021, at 9:10 AM, firefighters were called to the scene of a fire in a parked car near building 25, on Dmitra Yavornytskoho Avenue – the main street of the city of Dnipro, Ukraine. Before the fire...
Al-Shabaab Attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia
February 2, 2022The year 2022 was met in Mogadishu, Somalia, with five IED attacks against various targets in early January 2022. At the start of the month, an SVBIED initiated as it approached a police checkpoint. About 10 days later, an SVBIED...
TGA0676 – TACN HME Production Tutorial Shared on Radical Telegram Channel
February 2, 2022In late 2021, a Russian-language Telegram channel posted a video tutorial and instructions for the synthesis of tetraamminecopper nitrate from copper wire, ammonia solution and ammonium nitrate – readily available precursors, which through a relatively simple procedure, lead to the...
TGA0675 – Booby-Trapped Smartphone Box Incorporating a Micro Switch, Ras al-Ayn, Syria
February 2, 2022On December 1, 2021, a smartphone box placed on a sidewalk on the Al-Hasakah road, in Ras al-Ayn, was found by security forces. Although it appeared innocent at first, it actually concealed an IED. The item was a victim-operated IED...
