Tag: IED

The Manbij Military Council (MMC) announced that they have captured several “sleeper cells” composed of pro-Turkish militants this week. The captured men were supposedly part of the Turkish military’s Operation Euphrates Shield and were attempting to “destabilize” the region. The MMC’s commander, Mohammed Abu Adel told local media that, “The Euphrates Shield forces wanted to […]

A study was recently conducted by various veteran, psychiatry and other health organizations out of San Francisco, regarding the correlation between TBIs (particularly mild ones), and the likelihood they have on the onset of dementia. Their conclusion reads as such: In this cohort study of more than 350 000 veterans, even mild TBI without LOC was […]

A bomb exploded in Erbil, Kurdistan yesterday around 4:00 pm local time in what appears to be a targeted attack. The bomb was placed under the chassis of a car belonging to two Peshmerga from PDKI (Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan) and was detonated remotely. The Peshmerga injured were a father and son and remain […]

Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are often used in the same sentence. Most people understand that they are not the same thing, but with the overlapping signs and symptoms, the fact that the prior can lead to the latter, and simply the geography of both injuries (the head), makes them […]

On a summer morning in a desolate corner of Iraq’s western desert, Jim Mattis learned he’d narrowly evaded an assassination attempt. A Sunni Arab man had been caught planting a bomb on a road shortly before Mattis and his small team of Marines passed by. Told the captured insurgent spoke English, Mattis decided to talk […]

Sgt. Zachary Mayne, former team leader of 3rd Ranger Battalion, has suffered two separate combat traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) during his deployments to Afghanistan. In an interview with SOFREP, he said that, …my second blast TBI definitely shifted my views on the whole issue. I only had headaches for a few days from the first, […]

Several roadside IEDs were discovered and disarmed Saturday, along an established road leading to the, Kurdish–Iranian, Komala Party headquarters in Sulaymaniyah. Komala’s security chief, Dara Mustafa, disclosed to local news sources that the tactical objective of the IEDs was to, “target us, especially the convoys of the leadership of Komala,” and, “We later were able to discover the place where the […]

A 27-year-old New York resident of Bangladeshi descent attempted a suicide bombing in one of Manhattan’s busiest subway corridors on Monday morning.  The explosive, reported as a “low tech device” and believed to be a pipe bomb strapped to the man’s chest, is said to have detonated prematurely, injuring the attacker as well as four […]

Sky News reported that the police in London thwarted a plot to assassinate UK Prime Minister Theresa May. Sky News said the police believed there was a plan to launch an improvised explosive device at Downing Street and, in the chaos that ensued, attack and kill May. May’s spokesman said Britain had thwarted nine plots […]

London, England—A former SBS military working dog will receive the PSDA Dickin Medal, the Victoria Cross equivalent for animals. Mali, a Belgian Malinois, aged eight and now attached to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps (RACV), will be the 69th recipient of the medal. He’s been awarded the medal for his actions on 15 April 2012, […]

What happened here???: WASHINGTON — Navy criminal authorities are investigating whether two members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 strangled to death an Army Green Beret on assignment in Mali in June, military officials say. Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar, a 34-year-old veteran of two deployments to Afghanistan, was found dead on June 4 […]

Mali: Terrorism Report  Background: The Northern Mali Conflict  On 16 January 2012, several insurgent groups began fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence and greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organization fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had […]