CNN
| Apr 16, 2013
Three people were killed when two bombs exploded near the finishing line of the Boston marathon. More than 170 others, aged 2 to 71, are recovering from the physical wounds of these horrifying blasts.
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 15, 2013
Al Jazeera's Josh Rushing speaks to an orthopedic surgeon who was standing across the street from one of the Boston marathon explosions describes the aftermath: "It looked like an IED [improvised explosive device] from Afghanistan. There was one g...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 16, 2013
A bomb in southwestern Pakistan has killed at least 72 and left more than 200 others injured, activists in Balochistan have reported. The improvised explosive device, which was attached to a motorbike outside a vegetable market in Quetta, targeted...
Channel 4 News
| Sep 17, 2012
French photo-journalist Mani visits the "lost" town of Latamneh in Hama Governorate, where residents are turning to extreme measures to defend themselves. The town was the site of a horrific massacre that killed 65 people, many from the same famil...
New Zealand Defence Force
| Aug 27, 2012
Hundreds of soldiers from the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment bid farewell to three colleagues killed in Afghanistan by performing a traditional Maori funeral haka in Burnham Camp on Saturday, August 26. The moving ceremony was held for Corpor...
The New York Times
| Aug 22, 2012
The Times's C.J. Chivers travels with an antigovernment fighting group calling itself the Lions of Tawhid as it prepares to mount an attack on a regime checkpoint using a truck bomb. The Lions are fighting in and around Aleppo, where the war for S...
Vice
| Aug 3, 2012
WARNING: Graphic Content. Vice went to Pakistan to investigate why suicide bombings, IED use, and the Taliban are all growing at alarming rates. In a recent trip to Pakistan to report on the recent spike in the region's violence and bloodshed, Sur...
CNN
| Jul 26, 2012
WARNING: Graphic Content. The town of Al-Rastan in Homs Governorate was once home to 55,000 people. After relentless attacks by regime forces stationed on the outskirts, only a few thousand remain, suffering severe shortages and the constant threa...
ABC News (Australia)
| Jun 4, 2012
Afghanistan aims to run its own security by 2014 but how well prepared is the country and what will Australia's legacy there be?
— Jun 15, 2012 at 03:12 am
...Facility Dallas-One, of Texas, teamed up in the Black Hills for a mock Improvised Explosive Device and convoy role-play as part of Golden Coyote...
— Apr 5, 2012 at 09:52 am
— Jul 24, 2012 at 08:25 am
— last Friday at 05:45 pm
...Barbero, the director of the U.S. Department of Defense's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), testified before the U...
An improvised explosive device is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery round, attached to a detonating mechanism. Roadside bombs are a common use of IEDs.
IEDs may be used in terrorist actions or in unconventional warfare by guerrillas or commando forces in a theater of operations. In the second Iraq War, IEDs were used extensively against US-led Coalition forces and by the end of 2007 they had become responsible for approximately 63% of Coalition deaths in Iraq. They are also used in Afghanistan by insurgent groups, and have caused over 66% of the Coalition casualties in the 2001–present Afghanistan War.
IEDs were also used extensively by cadres of the rebel Tamil Tiger organization against military targets in Sri Lanka.
(via Freebase)
