An Explosive Renewal of the Islamic State in Libya? (Guest Post)
Baghdad / Barqah province / captured car bomb / captured SVBIED / Captured VBIED / Car bombs / Covert VBIED / Iraq / IS (Islamic State) / Islamic State in Libya / Islamic State West Africa Province / ISWAP / Libya / Libyan Dawn / Libyan National Army (LNA) / Mosul / parked VBIED / SVBIED / Tarabulus province / VBIED

An Explosive Renewal of the Islamic State in Libya? (Guest Post)

This is the first guest post on my website, written by the knowledgeable Calibre Obscura. As this topic revolves around IS' use of SVBIEDs in Libya, my previous in-depth article on the topic is a good primer. Late in the day on June 6th 2021, a local police facility on…

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September 17, 2021
Triumph & Symbolism – What Happens To Captured Car Bombs
Aleppo / Camouflaged SVBIED / captured car bomb / captured SVBIED / Captured VBIED / Car bombs / Covert VBIED / IS (Islamic State) / ISI (Islamic State of Iraq) / Mosul / SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) / SVBIED / Syria / up-armoured SVBIED / VBIED

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
Cinematic Depictions of Up-Armoured SVBIEDs: A Review
Car bombs / cinema / cinematic depictions / Damascus Time / film / IS (Islamic State) / Media / mock SVBIED / Mosul / movie / palmyra / SEAL Team / SVBIED / Syria / Tanks / up-armoured SVBIED / VBIED

Cinematic Depictions of Up-Armoured SVBIEDs: A Review

Following the rise of the Islamic State (IS), directors around the world have sought to capture this multi-faceted phenomenon on the big screen. Movies and TV shows have covered IS in different ways, with stories ranging from the qualms of IS foreign fighters to the grinding counter-IS fight undertaken by…

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February 17, 2021
Transplanted Armour: The Franken-SVBIEDs of the Islamic State
Anbar province / Car bombs / Fallujah / HMMWV (Humvee) / Iraq / IS (Islamic State) / Islamic State West Africa Province / ISWA / ISWAP / Jaish Khalid Bin al-Walid (JKBW) / Liwa Shuhada al-Yarmouk (LSY) / Mosul / Ninawa / SVBIED / Syria / Transplanted armour / VBIED / Wilayat Hawran

Transplanted Armour: The Franken-SVBIEDs of the Islamic State

In the process of capturing a piece of territory that at its height was larger than the UK, the Islamic State (IS) was able to capture large quantities of armoured vehicles from its opponents. While many of these vehicles (primarily those of Soviet origin) were reinserted into their stated combat…

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January 18, 2021
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
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