TASS — Ministry: Militants broke through into Palmyra using suicide car bombs

Primitive technology but it works. This is not new. It is SOP for them. Apparently there is no lack of volunteers for martyrdom.

Russia Beyond the Headlines
Ministry: Militants broke through into Palmyra using suicide car bombs

Joshua Holland — Here’s What a Man Who Studied Every Suicide Attack in the World Says About ISIS’ Motives

"What 95 percent of all suicide attacks have in common, since 1980, is not religion, but a specific strategic motivation to respond to a military intervention, often specifically a military occupation, of territory that the terrorists view as their homeland or prize greatly. From Lebanon and the West Bank in the 80s and 90s, to Iraq and Afghanistan, and up through the Paris suicide attacks we’ve just experienced in the last days, military intervention—and specifically when the military intervention is occupying territory—that’s what prompts suicide terrorism more than anything else."

AlterNet
Here’s What a Man Who Studied Every Suicide Attack in the World Says About ISIS’ Motives
Joshua Holland