Welcome to the Counter-IED Report website, a one-stop source of information and news for Counter-IED professionals. The Counter-IED Report is the leading international subscription-based publication covering the latest developments in the fight against the IED threat. The purpose of the Counter-IED Report is to identify technological advances, as well as strategies and tactics to counter threat networks, reduce IED production and placement, assist in post-conflict humanitarian demining, and capacity-building efforts worldwide. We are committed to providing up-to-date, first-hand expertise and facilitating information sharing among stakeholders, academia and industry. The magazine is published in print, e-book and PDF formats and distributed worldwide. The distribution is tailored to the highly engaged audience of Counter-IED, EOD, CBRNe, Defence, Law Enforcement, Humanitarian Demining and Security professionals and senior decision makers in government, public and private sectors. Additional hard copies of the Report are also distributed at the defence and security events through our Media Partnership Program.
Latest News
- Bangladesh: Over 50 blasts, 8 buses torched in Dhaka
November 9, 2026
Panic gripped the Dhaka University campus on Sunday evening as a series of crude bomb explosions, which also struck several other locations across the capital, deepened public fear. The evening rush ...
- Pakistan: Bomb Disposal Squad official killed in IED explosion in South Waziristan
November 8, 2026
An assistant head of the police’s Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) was martyred after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in the Janta area of Sararogha tehsil in Upper South ...
- Poland: Krakow shooting left six people dead
November 8, 2026
Six people were killed and 16 were injured after a shooting in Krakow’s Main Market Square on Saturday afternoon, in what Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an act of ...
- UK: Seven arrested as police and firefighters targeted with fireworks across Scotland
November 6, 2026
Seven people were arrested as police officers, firefighters and ambulance crews came under attack during Bonfire Night disorder across Scotland. Police received 1,024 fireworks-related calls between 31 October and 5 ...
- Colombia: The UN denounces the car bomb attack in Cauca
November 5, 2026
The United Nations has condemned this Thursday the “indiscriminate” attack carried out the day before with a vehicle loaded with explosives on the Pan-American Highway, in the department of Cauca, ...
- Cambodia: CMAA urges mine-risk education alongside clearance efforts
November 5, 2026
Senior Minister Ly Thuch says unexploded ordnance continues to threaten border communities, underscoring the importance of public awareness and coordinated efforts to protect lives. Protecting communities from explosive ordnance requires both ...
- Israeli Defense Ministry blows up 3,300 mines in Golan Heights
November 5, 2026
The Israeli Defense Ministry’s National Mine Action Authority has blown up some 3,300 mines near Kibbutz Ein Zivan on the Golan Heights in 2026, the body announced on Thursday. “The National ...
- Seven planes across Europe searched or diverted after ‘malicious hoax’ bomb threats
November 5, 2026
Seven planes across Europe have been searched or diverted after a series of bomb threats were made to passenger flights, prompting questions as to whether there was any coordination behind ...
- Bangladesh: Constable injured as crude bomb hurled from ‘AL motorcycle rally’
November 5, 2026
A police constable was injured when a crude bomb was hurled at a police patrol vehicle during a motorcycle rally of Awami League in Dhaka’s Kurmitola this morning. Police have detained ...
- Syria: Landmine kills 12-year-old child, injures 19 in Hasaka
November 4, 2026
A landmine explosion inside a school courtyard in the province of Hasaka in northeastern Syria (Rojava) killed one child and injured 19 others on Wednesday, an official said, as the ...
- Northern Ireland: Police say explosive devices found in Belfast are linked to ‘rightwing terrorism’
November 4, 2026
An arsenal of explosive devices discovered in Northern Ireland is believed to be linked to far-right terrorism, police have said. The stash of 17 improvised explosive devices and other material was ...
- Mali: JNIM claims IED attack on Malian Army and Africa Corps vehicle in Mopti region
November 3, 2026
Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), al-Qaeda’s Sahel affiliate, says it targeted a vehicle carrying Malian army and Russian Africa Corps personnel with an improvised explosive device on the morning of ...
- UK: A controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance carried out near Tetbury
November 2, 2026
A cordon set up around a field near Tetbury after unexploded ordnance was uncovered has been removed after the devices were detonated. Emergency services rushed to the scene in Long ...
- Pakistan: Police van damaged in two IED blasts
November 2, 2026
Two separate explosions involving improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted on motorcycles rocked Bannu near Merian Gate Police Post and Degree One College, causing no casualties but partially damaging a police ...
- Yemen: IEDs disguised as rocks, bricks and thermos flasks pose new threat to civilians
November 2, 2026
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) reportedly concealed beneath soil, inside roadside bags and disguised as everyday objects including rocks, bricks and thermos flasks are among the emerging explosive threats facing civilians ...
- Ukraine: Flanders allocates 1 million euros to mine clearance efforts with dogs
November 2, 2026
The Flemish government is allocating 1 million euros to help Ukraine detect mines with dogs. The money will go to the non-profit organisation Apopo. Apopo is an NGO that has used ...
