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 …
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The Islamic State’s own SVBIED statistics
Beginning in October 2015 and ending in September 2017, Amaq News Agency (the unofficial IS 'state media') regularly summarised all IS-claimed "martyrdom operations" (suicide bombings) in Syria, Iraq and Libya in infographics released on a monthly basis. Though these infographics looked different …