Fifty miles north of Baghdad sprawls the largest U.S. military supply center in Iraq. It's called Anaconda, and from here the things that keep an army going flow out to much of Iraq. But those ...
Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah, aka Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Ahmad, 41, of Syria was sentenced Nov. 7 to life plus 30 years in prison. Alahmedalabdaloklah was found guilty by a federal jury on March 16 of ...
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 ...
While U.S. forces parried the fledgling IED threat in Afghanistan, secret planning for the invasion of Iraq had accelerated. Little thought was given to roadside bombs as a serious obstacle to the ...
U.S. troops are now finding and defusing nearly half of the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq, and casualties from the devices are holding steady despite a sharp increase in the number being ...
Brian Castner commanded two Explosive Ordnance Disposal units in Iraq, where his team disabled roadside IEDs and investigated the aftermath of... 'The Life That Follows' Disarming IEDs In Iraq This ...
At an undisclosed location in Iraq, an AH-64 Apache helicopter provides close-air support for a resupply convoy in support of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve on Nov. 27, 2017.
Scott Sexton served his country as a combat engineer and a bomb dog handler in the U.S. Army. The demolition specialist had many close calls with improvised explosive devices (IED) in Iraq and ...
Still, the Pentagon says progress is being made: Up to 40 percent of IEDS are discovered and disabled by the military before they detonate, said Lt. Christine Devries, a spokeswoman for the ...
The extraordinary briefing in the Green Zone pointed a finger but it wavered. The sophisticated bomb technology behind some of the deadliest improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq came from ...