TGA0674 – IS Affiliates in Thailand Claim Roadside IED Attack for the First Time
February 1, 2022On January 7, 2022, a Thai Ranger vehicle was targeted by a roadside IED in southern Thailand’s Pattani Province. The blast left a large crater in the soil adjacent to the road, but did not inflict casualties or significant damage. Responsibility...
Mobius report 7/2022 – VBIED Attack Amid Renewed Lethal Clashes between the ELN and FARC Dissidents, Colombia
February 1, 2022On January 19, 2022, at 10:35 PM, a VBIED was initiated outside the Colombian Institute of Agriculture and a complex of social leaders and human rights headquarters in Saravena, Arauca, leaving one person dead and 20 injured. The blast affected...
Mobius report 6/2022 – Armed Drones in Myanmar
February 1, 2022On January 2, 2022, a coalition of three armed groups operating in Sagaing Region, in northwestern Myanmar, released a video showing attacks against positions and convoys of Myanmar Army vehicles, carried out using a drone modified to release an explosive...
Mobius report 5/2022 – Series of IED Attacks Targeting Electrical Infrastructure, New Year’s Eve 2021, Thailand
February 1, 2022On New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2021, there was a series of explosions at five locations, in Muang District and Bannang Sata District, in southern Thailand’s Yala Province. Nine IEDs attached to electricity and telephone poles were initiated in the...
Mobius report 4/2022 – Enlarged Houthi IEDs and Munitions, Shabwah Governorate, Yemen
January 31, 2022On January 15, 2022, the Al-Amaliqa Brigades, an elite militia aligned with the Yemeni National Army, neutralized an array of IEDs planted by the Houthis in Bayhan District, in Shabwah Governorate, in southwestern Yemen.Most of the neutralized IEDs were connected...
Mobius report 3/2022 – Loitering Munition Attacks Mark the Anniversary of the Assassination of Qasem Soleimani, Iraq
January 31, 2022On 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...
Mobius Report – IEDs Used in Assassinations, Albania
January 27, 2022On 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...
Mobius Report – Improvised Claymore-Type Mine and Instructional Video for its Preparation, Myanmar
January 27, 2022During 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...
Al-Khemia Report – Potassium Nitrate, Nitroglycerin and Charcoal Explosive Mixtures
January 27, 2022The 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...
