Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) have become infamous for their use by terrorists and other enemy combatants in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the United States continues the draw down of U.S ...

The U.S. Army has gained a tool in its efforts to combat improvised explosive devices (IEDs): software that uses algorithms based on geospatial abduction to predict where IED caches in Afghanistan are ...

It’s crazy to think, but according to Alec Barker, a National Security Analyst and former U.S. Army officer, we don’t have a very firm grasp on the nature of IED attacks in Afghanistan. Sure, there’s ...

For years in Iraq, what would normally be a boring task for U.S. troops was terrifying: driving. The endless hours of it that an occupying army has to do could get you killed. One moment things would ...

In 2019, an improvised explosive device ripped through a US Army patrol in Afghanistan, leaving combat cameraman Ian Ives with life-changing injuries. Now a civilian public affairs officer, Ives walks ...

Makeshift bomb attacks in Afghanistan killed three times as many coalition troops in the first two months of 2009 compared with the same period last year, USA Today reported Monday. Improvised ...

First of two parts. See part two here. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes editions, Nov. 24, 2009. It is republished unedited in its original form. Wardak province, Afghanistan — It ...

WASHINGTON — Almost afraid to say it out loud, lest they jinx their record, U.S. troops in Afghanistan achieved a small victory over the past year: They found and avoided more homemade bombs meant to ...

The IED blast killed three Americans and one local interpreter. June 26, 2008 — -- Three Americans and a local interpreter were killed this morning when a coalition force convoy was attacked in ...

IED SPIKE: Coalition forces in Afghanistan are seeing increased use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), more use of close-in explosives and even suicide car bombers, according to Marine Lt. Gen.

The U.S. tries to cut the flow of IEDs at the source. Jan. 10, 2012 — -- For four years, American forces in Afghanistan have been throwing technology at the deadliest military challenge of this ...