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
The Mysterious Case of the “Eastern Ghouta” Car Bomb
al-Qaeda / Aleppo / Ammonium nitrate / Camouflaged SVBIED / Car bombs / Deir ez-Zor / Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) / IS (Islamic State) / Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN) / SUV / SVBIED / Syria / VBIED

The Mysterious Case of the “Eastern Ghouta” Car Bomb

On February 27, 2018, a small youtube channel posted a video titled "Terrorists' bomb-car in Damascus". The video showed an up-armoured SVBIED, but the description of the video went on to claim that the Syrian Arab Army had captured a Faylaq al-Rahman car bomb in Damascus, more specifically in the…

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June 23, 2019
Last Resort – When Main Battle Tanks are Used as SVBIEDs
al-Qaeda / Aleppo / Car bombs / Deir ez-Zor / Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) / HMMWV (Humvee) / Iraq / Iraqi forces / IS (Islamic State) / Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN) / Main Battle Tank (MBT) / Mosul / Ninawa / Raqqah / SVBIED / Syria / T-55 / T-62 / T-72 / Tanks / VBIED

Last Resort – When Main Battle Tanks are Used as SVBIEDs

The Islamic State's (IS) extensive acquisition of military armoured vehicles from government forces in both Syria and Iraq has been a well-documented phenomenon. Especially during their initial massive expansion in the 2013-14 period, but also sporadically over the years. These seized main battle tanks (MBTs) and armoured personnel carriers (APCs)…

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March 18, 2019
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