Mobius report – PKK IEDs and Initiation Systems Recovered in Northern Iraq
June 3, 2022On April 18, 2022, Turkey launched a new phase of the extensive military operation it is conducting in the area close to its southern border, in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, aimed at eradicating the presence of militants of the Kurdistan...
Mobius report – Houthi Bounding Mines, Yemen
June 2, 2022During 2022, particularly between March and May, EOD personnel from the Yemeni Armed Forces and deminers from civilian mine-clearing organizations in Yemen neutralized a large number of bounding mines in the country. Bounding mines have been in service in Yemen...
Mobius report – Hand Grenades Rigged to Serve as Ammunition for Armed Drones, Ukraine
June 2, 2022On May 18, 2022, a video was posted on the WarGonzo Telegram channel, demonstrating the use of an RGD-5 grenade as ammunition for an armed UAV against enemy targets was posted by soldiers from the 61st Marine Brigade of the...
Mobius report – PBIEDs with Transmitters Worn by Two Female Couriers, Afrin, Syria
June 2, 2022On May 18, 2022, a joint team of Turkish and Syrian security forces arrested two women wearing two identical PBIEDs in the city of Afrin, in Aleppo Governorate, in northwestern Syria. Each IED was cased in a lumbar support belt,...
Mobius report – Rectangular Sticky IEDs with Delay Timers, India
June 2, 2022On May 8, 2022, acting on information received by the police, two suspects were arrested in the village of Naushehra Pannuan, in Tarn Taran District, in the state of Punjab, in northern India. A blue bag with a rectangular IED...
Mobius report – NGV-Based VBIED, Mosul, Iraq
June 2, 2022On April 28, 2022, a natural gas vehicle parked near a cafe in an alley near Al-Majmu’ah al-Thaqafiyya Street, in Mosul, Iraq, exploded. One person was killed in the blast and two others were injured. Initially, the incident was reported...
Mobius report – IED Workshop Raided, Istanbul, Turkey
June 2, 2022On the evening of April 27, 2022, Turkish security forces raided an apartment that served as both a hideout and an IED workshop in Sancaktepe, a suburb in eastern Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, located in the northwest of...
Mobius report – Female BLA Suicide Bomber Targets Chinese University Staff, Karachi, Pakistan
June 2, 2022On April 26, 2022, a female suicide bomber initiated her vest PBIED near the entrance gate of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Karachi University, in southern Pakistan. The blast occurred as a minibus transporting a number of Chinese university...
TGA0693 – Three Coordinated ISKP Attacks Targeting Shia Hazara, Mazar-i Sharif, Afghanistan
June 2, 2022On May 25, 2022, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province carried out three simultaneous IED attacks targeting three minivans transporting Shia Hazaras in Mazar-i Sharif. Two of the attacks occurred within a few minutes of each other in PD-10, while...
