Shifting Gears: HTS’s Evolving Use of SVBIEDs During the Idlib Offensive of 2019-2020 (Middle East Institute)
Ammonium nitrate / BMP-1 SVBIED / Car bombs / Covert VBIED / Drones / Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) / Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN) / Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS) / RC-VBIED / SVBIED / Syria / VBIED

Shifting Gears: HTS’s Evolving Use of SVBIEDs During the Idlib Offensive of 2019-2020 (Middle East Institute)

Two days ago I published my most extensive work of 2020 so far with the Middle East Institute, titled "Shifting Gears: HTS's Evolving Use of SVBIEDs During the Idlib Offensive of 2019-2020". This case study initially covers the group's use of SVBIEDs since the beginning of the Syrian civil war…

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October 30, 2020
The Unique SVBIEDs Used in the 2013 Capture of Menagh Airbase
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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 overrun, ending the…

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September 21, 2020
Factories of Destruction – How Up-Armored SVBIEDs are Manufactured
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)

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 the importance of this improvised weapon, some…

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March 31, 2020
The Disabled Suicide Bombers of The Islamic State
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 / VBIED / wheelchair

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. These different narratives are…

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November 25, 2019
From Hajin to Baghouz – Islamic State SVBIED Design & Use
Ammonium nitrate / Baghouz / bulldozer / Camouflaged SVBIED / Car bombs / Covert VBIED / Deir ez-Zor / Front-end loader / frontal exterior IEDs / Hajin / Iraq / Iraqi forces / IS (Islamic State) / Mosul / Raqqah / SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) / SUV / SVBIED / Syria / Tal Afar / tent city / VBIED

From Hajin to Baghouz – Islamic State SVBIED Design & Use

In April 2019 I wrote the most comprehensive report of the Islamic State's (hereafter IS) design and use of Suicide Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices, or SVBIEDs, since the proclamation of the caliphate in 2014. The report, titled "Car Bombs as Weapons of War" and published by the Middle East Institute,…

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August 3, 2019
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