Take account of clustering: deaths per fatal improvised explosive device (IED) incident, and in making short-term projections for Afghanistan. Methods: Cause and date of coalition deaths in Iraq ...

have accounted for around 70 percent of America’s 4,223 combat deaths in Iraq and have wounded more than 38,000 U.S. soldiers there. In Afghanistan, the number of IED incidents last year rose to ...

“In Iraq and Afghanistan, I was presented right up front ... Like do not mess with an IED once it’s been identified.” Furness served as the commander of Regimental Combat Team-1 in ...

Two U.S. service members were killed and two U.S. service members were wounded in action in Afghanistan on Saturday ... military vehicle was struck by an IED in the country’s Kandahar Province.

Moments later, an IED exploded. Luckily ... Another soldier was killed during the same ambush. In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, army medics and doctors saved an unprecedented 90% of wounded ...

Having served in the U.S. Navy for 25 years, Shawn J. Cole has distinguished himself in the area of explosive ordnance ...

I remember seeing my combat boots tromping though "moon dust" in the scorching heat of Iraq in 2007 ... removed from my body by an IED on a battlefield in Afghanistan in 2010.

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 ...

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% ...