source: Jawhar
actor1: Unidentified Armed Group (Somalia)
actor2: Military Forces of Somalia (2017-)
location: Balcad
notes: 5 August 2018: 5 Somali national soldiers were injured in an IED blast targeting Somali National Army Second Division commander, Ali Arif. According to the source, the bomb was attached by unidentified militants to the car of the commander, and it detonated once the vehicle reached the inside the old textiles factory in Balcad district.