They’re easy to drive and hard to stop, can be made on a farm and destroy a city block: the Islamic State group’s monstrous truck bombs are reshaping the battlefield.
The jihadists used about 30 explosives-rigged vehicles in the Iraqi city of Ramadi this month, blasting their way through positions government and allied fighters had managed to hold for more than a year.
IS fighters have used looted armored personnel carriers, pick-ups, tankers and dump trucks. They pack them with tons of explosives and weld steel cages around them. (READ MORE)
