U.S. suffers first death in new armored truck
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The U.S. military has suffered a first fatality in one of a new fleet of heavily armored vehicles designed to protect soldiers from roadside bombs, the military said on Tuesday.
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A U.S. soldier was killed in a truck accident north of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, a military spokesman said.
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A soldier dies and three are hurt when their armoured vehicle overturns en route to the Black Watch's new base in Iraq.
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22 August 2004 -- The US-led coalition forces said that troops fired on a truck that attempted to run through a joint Afghan National Army and coalition checkpoint near Ghazni, killing three and wounding two others.
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Seven U.S. soldiers were killed on  Thursday when their Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an explosive  device on a road in northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. military  said in a statement.
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The army is seeking more production  of the most fully armor-protected "Humvee" military vehicles,  defense officials said on Friday, after a soldier's complaint  to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that troops had to use  scrap metal to protect vehicles in Iraq.
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Why the Pentagon ended up with a shortage of armored vehicles for U.S. soldiers in Iraq
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Inadequate armored protection for military vehicles in Iraq is a festering problem that has contributed to many US deaths and casualties.
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One killed and another injured in attack on army truck in southern Afghanistan.
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Coalition forces in Afghanistan say that three people were killed and two others critically wounded when their pickup truck tried to run a checkpoint in the province of Ghazni.
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The U.S. military apologized Saturday for the death of a young Afghan civilian near to where American-led troops were battling militants in a Taliban stronghold of southern Afghanistan.
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The military is ordering more lightweight armor developed in Ohio that protects troops in Humvees from automatic weapons fire and grenades without slowing the vehicles. Unarmored Humvees have become targets in the war in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 9 -- A U.S. airstrike in northern Iraq killed one of the men responsible for planning the coordinated truck bomb attack that killed at least 411 people last month, the military said Sunday.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a  helicopter crash in Iraq and six more were killed in insurgent  attacks on the deadliest day for American forces since they  invaded the country 22 months ago.
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A head-on collision between a pickup truck going the wrong way on an interstate and a minivan killed five people in the minivan, including an infant, a fire department spokesman said Monday.
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It has been confirmed by the US Military that seven soldiers from Fort Hood were killed this morning in a helicopter crash. The UH-60 Black Hawk crashed just south of Waco in heavy fog.
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Military officials said Thursday they were working hard to upgrade the armor on Army vehicles in Iraq, a day after a soldier had pressed