In the remote forests and fractured roads of Mozambique's Cabo Delgado, a small but adaptive militant faction has traded the blunt violence of machetes and arson for the patient, calculated language of buried explosives. Islamic State Mozambique, pressed back from territorial ambitions by regional military intervention, has responded not with surrender but with transformation — shifting toward improvised explosive devices that cost little to build yet exact enormous tolls on soldiers, infrastructure, and the state's capacity to fight back. This is the enduring logic of asymmetric conflict: whe
Islamic State Mozambique Shifts to IED-Centric Strategy After Territorial Losses
IED attacks have injured soldiers and killed or wounded civilians; the insurgency has displaced communities and destroyed hundreds of homes since 2017.