Mobius report 33/2023 – ISKP Weapons and IEDs, Afghanistan
May 22, 2023During March 2023, Taliban forces (currently governing Afghanistan) raided weapons depots and IED workshops of the Islamic State, where they found old standard weapons, explosives, IEDs and equipment for assembling them. In addition to these seizures, a new supply of...
TGA0738 – Bank Robbery TTPs, Brazil
May 22, 2023On the evening of April 27, 2023, a bank manager was kidnapped and held hostage in his home in Sobrália by a gang of bank robbers. The next morning, two of the gang of five armed robbers strapped a purported...
Terrogence Hydra report – April 2023
May 9, 2023In this month’s In Focus, we examine the reaction of global jihad groups to the unrest in Sudan that started on April 15, 2023, caused by an armed conflict between rival factions of the military. For now, the Islamic State...
Mobius report 32/2023 – Assassination of Vladlen Tatarsky, St. Petersburg, Russia
May 3, 2023On April 2, 2023, an explosion occurred at Street Food Bar № 1, located on the corner of 6-Ya Liniya V.o. and Leytenanta Shmidta embankment, in St. Petersburg, Russia. A well-known military blogger named Maxim Fomin, also known under the...
TGA0737 – Multiple Mugin-5 Pro UAVs Deployed as Loitering Munitions in Various Configurations by Ukraine
May 2, 2023On April 27, 2023, Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Russian targets in the occupied city of Rovenky, in Luhansk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine, with seven Mugin-5 Pro UAVs, five of which were reportedly shot down, while two initiated on the grounds...
Mobius report 31/2023 – JNIM SVBIED Attacks in Mali
April 30, 2023On April 22, 2023, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin’ carried out a complex attack incorporating SVBIEDs combined with raids targeting a Malian Air Force base in the town of Sévaré, which also hosts Russian Wagner Group forces, who have increased...
Mobius report 30/2023 – Booby-Trapped UAVs
April 30, 2023On April 3, 2023, two images were posted on a Russian Telegram channel, showing the inside of a downed Ukrainian UAV. The aircraft appears to be a booby-trapped reconnaissance UAV. A comment on the image warned Ukrainian forces are increasingly...
Mobius report 29/2023 – Directional Fragmentation IEDs, Southern Thailand
April 30, 2023On April 18, 2023, an IED was found and later neutralized near Moo No. 6 in the Ban Chue Nga area of Mueang Narathiwat District, in southern Thailand’s Narathiwat Province. The IED was connected to an initiation system cased in...
Mobius report 28/2023 – IED Attack in Istanbul and Terrorist Groups Operating in the City
April 27, 2023On November 13, 2022, an IED initiated on İstiklal Avenue, in Beyoğlu District, in the center of the Turkish city of Istanbul. The IED, which was concealed in a backpack, was placed on a bench in front of a Mango...
