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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A roadside bomb killed three U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. You can always count on death, as Ben Franklin ruefully noted. And in Afghanistan, it seems, you can always count on taxes.