One of the most urgent technical challenges facing the U.S. is defeating Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Of the 421 military deaths in 2007 through the end of May, 298 were killed by IEDs, ...

The UN released two reports Tuesday, citing increases in deaths by improvised explosive devices (IED) and rising rates of drug trafficking in Afghanistan. These attacks on civilians and civilian ...

Many combat deaths in Iraq are the result of improvised explosive device, or IED, explosions. Through DNA technology the military can make a complete accounting of the remains of soldiers killed by ...

Investigators continue to uncover more details about the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans and the suspect's apparent plot to detonate explosives in addition to the deadly truck-ramming incident.

In Britain this week, a former Royal Marine spoke out after the inquest into the 2010 IED death of Sgt. Peter Rayner to tell the Sun newspaper that soldiers were prevented from opening fire at Taliban ...

State government officials blamed Mexican cartels for the death of a U.S. rancher from south Texas who was killed by an ...

Silent Night, Holy Night? Not in Maui. It feels and sounds like a war zone or terrorist attack in Central Maui. Maui residents and visitors are experiencing nightly (and occasionally during afternoon ...

Kenya: An improvised explosive device (IED) is a homemade bomb designed to kill, injure and incapacitate people. IEDs consist of conventional military ammunition or bombs but are normally designed ...

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 ...

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.