Triumph & Symbolism – What Happens To Captured Car Bombs
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Triumph & Symbolism – What Happens To Captured Car Bombs

Ever since the conflicts in Syria and Iraq progressed toward semi-conventional fighting in 2013-2014, up-armoured suicide car bombs, or Suicide Vehicle-Borne IEDs (SVBIEDs) have been a recurring feature of the battlefields. Lacking air superiority, non-state actors in both countries have resorted to using these weapons as a form of "poor…

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April 26, 2021
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
Car Bombs as Weapons of War (Case study/Middle East Institute)
Aleppo / Ammonium nitrate / Anbar province / AQI (al-Qaeda in Iraq) / Camouflaged SVBIED / Car bombs / Covert VBIED / Front-end loader / Handicapped fighters / HMMWV (Humvee) / Homs / Iraq / Iraqi forces / IS (Islamic State) / ISI (Islamic State of Iraq) / Main Battle Tank (MBT) / Mosul / Ninawa / Raqqah / RC-VBIED / Remote controlled / Salahuddin / SVBIED / Syria / VBIED

Car Bombs as Weapons of War (Case study/Middle East Institute)

I just published an in-depth case study with the Middle East Institute, where I examine how IS design/tactics and use of SVBIEDs has evolved and adapted since 2014. The full case study can be read here:

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April 11, 2019
Bouquet of Death: Why ISIS Fighters Bring Flowers to Suicide Bombings
al-Qaeda / Anbar province / AQI (al-Qaeda in Iraq) / Car bombs / Covert VBIED / Deir ez-Zor / Iraq / Iraqi forces / IS (Islamic State) / ISI (Islamic State of Iraq) / Ninawa / Salahuddin / SUV / SVBIED / Syria / Tal Afar / VBIED

Bouquet of Death: Why ISIS Fighters Bring Flowers to Suicide Bombings

Recently I wrote a short article for Popular Front that was just released, about why IS fighters sometimes mount flowers to their SVBIEDs. The article can be read here on the new Popular Front website.

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March 14, 2019
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