People often comment: "Mad Max" when seeing these vehicles. There are indeed some valid comparisons, but the closest pop culture analog I've seen is the Jawa sandcrawlers from the first Star Wars. Similarly, the Jawa were a desert-dwelling race of machinery scavengers:



BTW, if you want to keep an eye on ISIS developments, there is a good site called Jihadology.net that acts as a clearinghouse for primary source material from ISIS and other Jihadi groups. It's run by Aaron Zelin, a PhD candidate specializing in the history of Jihadi movements, and a fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Zelin reviews the material, adds academic commentary in context, and provides safe downloads from his own site, so you don't have to go poking around the dark web downloading questionable files. Jihadology.net is essentially a social media-based, in-the-trenches version of something like The Clarion Project.

Sometimes you will see brief clips of ISIS media on mainstream news, with them explaining that the footage came from "ISIS websites" or some such. While this is technically true, they may have just found it on Zelin's website.