U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped a 22,000-pound bomb on Islamic State forces in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the Pentagon announced, using the largest non-nuclear bomb ever employed in combat.

A 15-ton “bunker buster” bomb was likely needed to destroy the last untouched nuclear facility in Iran, and only the US had one. Such a powerful weapon — the largest non-nuclear bomb in the ...

The GBU-43 is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. military's arsenal. It's so large, it has to be carried in the cargo hold of a C-130 military plane and then rolled out the back door.

The Texas fertilizer disaster turned a routine fire call into one of the deadliest industrial explosions in U.S. history ...

The massive 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs dropped on Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend were developed to attack these kinds of targets, the top US general said Wednesday, revealing that ...

Five years after the massive Beirut port explosion that killed more than 220 people and injured thousands, victims' families ...

The August 4, 2020 disaster was one of the world's largest non-nuclear explosions, and devastated swathes of the Lebanese capital, killing more than 220 people and injuring over 6,500.

Five years ago, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history ripped apart Beirut's waterfront with a terrifying power. The blast, which many still refer to as "the bomb," was not terrorism ...

Human Rights Watch condemned Lebanese authorities on Monday over their inaction in the devastating explosion in Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020, failing to deliver an explanation to victims and their ...