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2S1 Gvozdika, Abu Jandal al-Masri, Airbase, al-Qaeda, Aleppo, Ammonium nitrate, Azaz, BMP-1 SVBIED, Car bombs, Egypt, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Iraq, IS (Islamic State), ISI (Islamic State of Iraq), Islamic State in Libya, Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (JMA), Liwa al-Fatah, Liwa Asifat al-Shamal, Menagh, Menagh Airbase, Northern Storm Brigade, SVBIED, Syria, Tell Rifaat, VBIED · September 21, 2020

The Unique SVBIEDs Used in The 2013 Capture Of Menagh Airbase

Background On August 5, 2013, two suicide bombers belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) detonated their vehicles inside Menagh Airbase in the Northern Aleppo countryside. By the next day, the remaining loyalist holdout located in and around the base command centre had been …

al-Qaeda, Aleppo, Ammonium nitrate, Baghouz, Camouflaged SVBIED, Car bombs, Covert VBIED, Daraa, Deir ez-Zor, Fallujah, frontal exterior IEDs, Hajin, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Iraqi forces, IS (Islamic State), ISI (Islamic State of Iraq), Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), Libya, SUV, SVBIED, Syria, Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), Uncategorized · March 31, 2020

Factories Of Destruction – How Up-Armored SVBIEDs Are Manufactured

INTRODUCTION Suicide car bombs, or Suicide Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (SVBIEDs), are used by a variety of different non-state actors across the world. At times against civilian targets in order to terrorise, and other times as a force-multiplying weapon on the battlefield. Given …

al-Qaeda, Aleppo, Car bombs, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), IS (Islamic State), Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), SVBIED, Syria, Uncategorized, VBIED · March 12, 2020

The Green Car Bombs Of Eastern Aleppo

BACKGROUND Since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, a range of disparate opposition groups (including Jabhat al-Nusra – now Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/HTS) have wrestled with loyalist forces over control of the immensely strategic city of Aleppo. Situated in the country's North as its most populous …

al-Qaeda, Aleppo, Ammonium nitrate, Anbar province, Car bombs, Caucasus, Deir ez-Zor, Drones, Hajin, Handicapped fighters, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Iraq, Iraqi forces, IS (Islamic State), Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), Media, Mosul, Ninawa, paraplegic, Raqqah, SUV, SVBIED, Syria, Uncategorized, VBIED, wheelchair · November 25, 2019

The Disabled Suicide Bombers of The Islamic State

The Islamic State's propaganda is multifaceted and made up of different narratives. A lot has been written about how the Islamic State (hereafter IS) employs these narratives in their propaganda output, and how the group's media is carefully crafted in order to promote their overall narratives. …

al-Qaeda, Car bombs, Covert VBIED, Iraq, IS (Islamic State), Islamic State in Libya, Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), Libya, Mosul, Ninawa, RC-VBIED, Remote controlled, SVBIED, Syria, VBIED · October 1, 2019

The Myth of the Remote-Controlled Car Bomb

Two weeks ago, I published an in-depth report with European Eye on Radicalization, in which I examined the who's and what's of Remote-Controlled Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (RC-VBIED) use. In the report, I compare and contrast the use of such devices by a variety of non-state actors in …

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