TGA0742 – Polio Vaccination Teams Targeted in TTP Attacks, Pakistan
June 26, 2023On November 30, 2022, a rickshaw SVBIED rammed into a police truck escorting a polio vaccination team in Quetta, Balochistan, killing four people and wounding more than 30. Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred just two days after the launch...
Mobius report 46/2023 – Special Weapons from Foreign Sources in Afghanistan
June 26, 2023On May 17, 2023, members of the Taliban’s 313 Central Army Corps seized a weapons cache in Siah Gard District, in northern Afghanistan’s Parwan Province. An assortment of anti-personnel mines, igniters, detonating cord and safety fuse was documented, all from...
Mobius report 45/2023 – Motorcycle VBIED Assassination TTP, Pakistan
June 25, 2023On April 10, 2023, a motorcycle VBIED was initiated next to the vehicle of a senior Quetta police officer near Qandhari Bazar, in Quetta, in Balochistan, Pakistan. As a result of the explosion, two police officers and two civilians were...
Mobius report 44/2023 – AlphaFire RC Initiation Systems, Pakistan
June 25, 2023On June 5, 2023, a YouTube channel affiliated with the Balochistan Liberation Army that features tutorial videos for tactical training published a step-by-step instructional video of the preparation of an RCIED. The BLA was ranked the fifth most deadly terrorist...
Mobius 43/2023 – Naxalite IEDs in India, 2023
June 22, 2023During the past year, following an increase in Naxalite activity in their main areas of operation, and subsequent raids by security forces, numerous documentation of IEDs and IED components used by the Naxalites, particularly in the states of Chhattisgarh and...
Mobius report 42/2023 – Thwarted Attacks against Electricity Infrastructure, Russia
June 19, 2023On May 25, 2023, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation announced their capture of a Ukrainian sabotage cell responsible for planning IED attacks against electrical infrastructure targets in several regions in Russia. According to the FSB, on the...
Mobius report 41/2023 – IEDs Used by IS-Affiliated Groups in the Philippines
June 19, 2023On May 31, 2023, at around 7:50 PM, Philippine military forces engaged in armed clashes with members of the Islamic State-affiliated Maute group in Piangologan, in Marogong Municipality, in Lanao del Sur Province. The exchange of fire reportedly resulted in...
Hydra report – May 2023
June 13, 2023This month’s In Focus examines the surge of Islamic State West Africa Province violence in the Lake Chad Basin in May, amid ongoing counterterrorist operations by the Nigerian Army. In recent weeks, ISWAP launched a widescale campaign to protect its...
Mobius report 40/2023 – RC Initiation Systems Used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
June 2, 2023Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we have witnessed the continuous use of RC initiation systems/blasting machines by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In April 2023, an RC initiation system was used with an IED that was...
