A video showing a Pakistan army officer becoming emotional is being shared with claims that it captures his reaction to a ...

One mission took us off the dirt road into a poppy field, trying to keep rolling on dry land to avoid getting stuck in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parker estimates his platoon had detonated at least 50 IEDs since arriving in Afghanistan on Oct. 1, where they began operations after about a week of further training. It was on the trip back from ...

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 ...

The U.S. military's counter-IED agency is focusing on intelligence and robotics in the continuing fight against a critical threat to soldiers' lives. Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, have been ...

“I am here in Kandahar on a short vacation,” says the young man, about 27, who we will call Mullah Kalam. His beard is trimmed neat; he is wearing a black leather jacket and a striped beige turban.

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 ...

Matias Ferreira had just moved to New York from Clayton County, Georgia, when he attended a Jets game in New Jersey about 15 ...