Afghan War Blog

Life in Kabul Amid the Violence. Taliban attacks and bombings within the city of Kabul have increased significantly and the population is c...

A "SEAL Breacher Study" will explore the way that Navy SEAL brains are affected by repeated blasts. Two researchers will conduct t...

A news account details the life of an Afghan specialist in defusing improvised explosive devices (IEDs). He works for the Afghan police i...

A suicide car bomber killed eleven members of the Afghan security forces and wounded over 20 civilians near a police checkpoint in Azra dist...

The land of Afghanistan is scattered with mines from past conflicts - although many have been policed up there are still thousands lying ben...

One of the more successful tactics of the Taliban in Afghanistan is the emplacing of IEDs in culverts along the roads that ISAF and ANSF for...

Three coalition Soldiers died after a Taliban suicide vehicle rammed into a military convoy in Kabul on Tuesday morning. Read the ISAF news ...

The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has published a document entitled " Gulf War and Health: Volume 9 - Long-Term Effec...

The number of IEDs cleared or detonated in Afghanistan during 2011 increased to a new high.  The IED instances hit a record high of 16,554 -...

United Kingdom forces are changing their tactics when it comes to disposal of IEDs in Afghanistan.  Instead of disarming the IEDs and retrie...

A recent news article from an Australian newspaper describes the IED threat to troops conducting operations in Afghanistan.  Read more in ...

Disposing of IEDs in Afghanistan is a dangerous job and it takes special men to do it.  The British have specialized teams that receive exte...

IEDs in Afghanistan continue to be a growing problem resulting in numerous injuries and deaths.  This, despite an enormous effort to defeat ...

IEDs are a constant source of death and injury for coalition troops fighting in Afghanistan.  What frustrates these troops are the Afghan vi...

A Congressman with war experience in both Iraq and Afghanistan is critical of counter-IED efforts in Afghanistan.  He states that ODIN was a...

For U.S. troops in Afghanistan IEDs are a constant threat.  They have to avoid roads, trails, paths, and gateways to limit the opportunities...

Social network analysis is being used to help in defeating the IED network.  Read more in "U.S. Connects the Dots to catch Roadside Bom...

Ammonium nitrate is a key ingredient of IEDs in Afghanistan.  The coalition forces are attempting to limit the availability to insurgents in...

"WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan – For Afghan civilians, Afghan National Security Forces and International Security Assistance Force perso...

IEDs have become the primary threat to coalition forces conducting operations in Kandahar.  The US has spent billions of dollars trying to d...