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 ...
The UK Foreign Office has announced that the country will allocate £7 million for clearing mines and explosives left behind ...
In June of 2012 SGT Hoyum's life was changed. His convoy was hit by a 400-pound IED in Afghanistan. This blast threw SGT Hoyum 40 feet, breaking his T3 vertebrae and fracturing many other ...
Mills says this is just one way they’re helping veterans overcome physical and emotional challenges after service and this concert is helping him accomplish that.
Prince Harry's first Winter Invictus Games is facing backlash over the biathlon event, which is swapping rifles for laser guns over accessibility and safety concerns.
In Afghanistan, the number of IED incidents last year rose to more than 1,000, a 33 percent increase from 2007, and claimed 161 lives. “IEDs are the biggest threat we face,” says Maj.
This feeling was agony. It was a long way from the Cascade foothills of his hometown of Monroe, Washington, to the top of a Humvee turret in Bakwa, Afghanistan, and on that day, August 6 ...
He awed us—most of us were on our first deployment to Afghanistan and Matt had served in combat multiple times and had fought ...
Former commando Gregg Stevenson, from Foulridge, lost both legs to an IED in Afghanistan. He went on to achieve gold in the Paris Paralympics, partnering with Lauren Rowles in the PR2 mixed double ...
Over 65 square kilometres of land across 26 provinces in Afghanistan remain contaminated with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), according to a report from HALO Trust, a demining organization.
‘Old practice of Pakistan to blame neighbours,’ says India condemning its airstrikes on innocent Afghanistan civilians India on Monday (January 6, 2025) “unequivocally” condemned Pakistani ...
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% ...