Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the Halo Trust is gathering ... he had planted further improvised explosive devices (IEDs). As well as this chance encounter in 2021, the Halo ...
Sixteen years before he fatally shot himself and detonated low-grade explosives in the back of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the ...
July 8, 2009: The U.S. Army is sending an infantry brigade, equipped with Land Warrior gear, to Afghanistan. This, in spite of the fact that, two years ago, after ten years of effort, and about $500 ...
IEDs accounted for 62% of hostile deaths in Iraq, much higher than in rural Afghanistan. The distribution of fatalities per fatal IED incident was the same, however. Specific causes of military ...
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Selected causes of death claimed a different toll in Iraq in 2006 and overall in Afghanistan. In particular, IEDs accounted for 53% of all fatalities in Iraq in 2006 to September 17, and for 62% ...
Former Taliban fighters are now helping the world’s largest landmine-clearing charity locate bombs which they planted during the long war against coalition forces in Afghanistan. One of the Halo ...