On April 20th 2017, The Islamic State-affiliated 'Amaq News Agency' published a video report from the raging battle in western Mosul. The video, titled "An innovation enters the battlefield in Mosul", showed an Islamic State (hereafter IS) brown camouflaged SVBIED fitted with five rocket pods on the …
The Islamic State’s self-reported 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 …
Through the desert & down the Euphrates – Islamic State SVBIED use & innovation
This is the second part of a series of articles covering the IS development and innovation of SVBIEDs from the battle of Mosul to the current situation. The first part covered the similarities between the battles of Mosul and Raqqah, while this part will cover the Islamic State's use of SVBIEDs …