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...
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...
Mobius report 96/2021 – IED Attack at a Russian School by a Former Student
January 27, 2022On December 13, 2021, an IED initiated at a Russian Orthodox school in the town of Serpukhov, in Moscow Oblast. A former student of the Vvedenskiy Vladychny Gymnasium and 10 other students were seriously injured in the blast. The IED...
TGA0672 IED Attacks by Criminals Targeting Courts
January 27, 2022During December 2021, there were two separate incidents involving attempted attacks on courts in India by criminals. The first case, on December 9, 2021, was a failed attempt to assassinate a lawyer, motivated by revenge, at Rohini Court in New...
Annual Hydra report 2021
January 26, 2022The year 2021 saw major growth in the significance of IS provinces in Africa to the group’s central command, manifested both by the attention given to the African provinces in IS propaganda and by developments on the ground. In terms of the latter,...
