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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has established a new task force to move new techniques and technologies for combating improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan more quickly to the front lines, ...
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 ...
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.
KABUL: An improvised explosive device blast in Kabul on Saturday killed at least three civilians including a veteran journalist amid escalating fighting across the country, an official said. Blaming ...