Sanford soldier Josiah Blystone was on his first tour of duty near Baghdad when he was seriously injured during a routine patrol. He was “just walking along and all of a sudden the IED (improvised ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pentagon report reveals military leaders knew about IED dangers prior to war. Dec. 9, 2008— -- WASHINGTON — Military leaders knew the dangers posed by roadside bombs before the start of the Iraq ...

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 ...

And we'll complete this report by going to Baghdad, where NPR's Tom Bullock has been talking to US troops as they battle insurgents on the road. And, Tom, you've been listening to General Votel ...

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 ...

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 ...