TGA0701 Unique Anti-Personnel IED Configurations Documented in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine
August 6, 2022On July 19, 2022, Russian mass media sources posted a video report, showing a workshop of Ukrainian forces, located in Lysychansk (Luhansk Oblast.) In the video, a soldier from the Ahmad Battalion (a special unit, part of the troops of...
TGA0700 ISCAP Booby-Trapped Corpse Neutralized, DRC
August 6, 2022In early February 2022, security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo neutralized a booby-trapped corpse placed by militants of the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province on the side of a road near the village of Mukoko, north of the...
TGA0699 ZALA Lancet-3 Loitering Munition in Ukraine
August 6, 2022In mid-July 2022, Russia’s ZALA Lancet-3 was documented in Zaporizhzhia and the Yavkovo area, in Ukraine. The Lancet is the second type of Russian loitering munition to be documented in Ukraine, along with the ZALA KUB. Before the Russian invasion...
TGA0698 – Assassination of Former Japanese Prime Minister, Nara, Japan
August 6, 2022On July 8, 2022, the former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated by a lone wolf assailant, Tetsuya Yamagami, with an improvised dual barrel gun (sometimes referred to as a Zip Gun.) The weapon appears to have been...
Mobius report 56/2022 – UAVs Weaponized with Heavy Payloads, Kayin State, Myanmar
August 6, 2022Since April 2022, and particularly during May, June and July, several armed militias operating in Kayin State, in southeastern Myanmar, have been documenting their use of drones modified to carry a heavy explosive payload consisting of one or more rounds...
Mobius report 55/2022 – ISKP Cell Arrested by the GDI, Afghanistan
August 6, 2022On July 24, 2022, the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan arrested a four-member terrorist cell of the Islamic State – Khurasan Province. The group confessed to involvement in past attacks and a large cache of...
Mobius report 54/2022 – PDF Instructional Video for the Preparation of Improvised Rocket Propellant, Myanmar
August 6, 2022On July 13, 2022, a unit that deals with the development of improvised weapons for the People’s Defense Force fighters, which operates mainly in Saw Township, in Magway Region, western Myanmar, published a video demonstrating a method for producing propellant...
Mobius report 53/2022 – Producing Weapons in Molten Metal Casts, Myanmar
August 6, 2022On July 20, 2022, independent Burmese media published a video showing a weapons workshop operated by the armed militia Anti-Fascist Underground Revolution Front active in Kayin State, in southeastern Myanmar. In the workshop, a number of items produced by the...
Mobius report 52/2022 – IED with Kurdish Characteristics Used in an Attack in Ras al-Ayn, Syria
August 6, 2022On July 19, 2022, an IED initiated in the central market in Ras al-Ayn, in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. Three people were injured and minor damage was caused to stores in the area. There was also evidence of fragmentation damage. On...
