Welcome to the Counter-IED Report website, one-stop information and news source for Counter-IED professionals worldwide. The Counter-IED Report is a leading international subscription-based publication, which serves as an information source to communicate the latest developments in the fight against the IED threat. The aim of the Counter-IED Report is to identify technological advances as well as strategies and tactics for countering threat networks, reduce IED manufacture and placement, assist post-conflict humanitarian demining and capacity building efforts worldwide. We strive to deliver an up-to-date, first-hand expert knowledge, and facilitate information sharing between stakeholders, academia and the industry. The report is published in print, eBook and PDF formats, and distributed worldwide. The distribution is tailored to the highly engaged audience of EOD, CIED, CBRNe, Defence, Law Enforcement, CT and Security professionals and senior decision makers in government, public and private sectors. Additional print copies of the Report are also distributed at the relevant Defence and Security events through our Media Partnership Programme.
Latest News
- UK Border Force Deploys Agilent Resolve Handheld Raman Systems for Hazardous Material Detection
July 19, 2018
Press release – SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 19, 2018 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that UK Border Force is now using Resolve, the company’s handheld Raman system, to detect bulk chemicals—whether benign, hazardous, or illegal—through opaque packages and containers. This system is the latest addition to a suite of advanced technologies deployed to detect illegal ...
- Slovakia extradites wanted terrorist to Russia linked to ex-Chechen militant commander
July 18, 2018
Bratislava has extradited Aslan Yandiyev to Russia, a gang member linked to deceased Chechen militant commander, Shamil Basayev, the Public Relations Center of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) informed TASS. “The wanted individual was involved in organizing and committing a string of headline-making terrorist attacks using high-powered IEDs (improvised explosive devices) in a city park ...
- Veteran uses state-of-the-art prosthetic technology
July 17, 2018
A U.S. Army veteran and amputee explained how state-of-the-art prosthetics changed his life at the Amputee Coalition Conference in Tucson. Richard Cicero lost an arm and leg when an improvised explosive device went off in Afghanistan back in 2010. He is one of the few people in the country who has been through this prosthetic procedure. Cicero ...
- 20 killed as ISIS bomber reportedly targets Taliban officials in Afghanistan
July 17, 2018
An Afghan official says an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suicide bomber has killed 20 people in northern Afghanistan, including a Taliban commander. Abdul Qayuom Baqizoi, provincial chief police of northern Sar-i-Pul province, said the attack Tuesday took place as village elders met with Taliban officials in the area. In northern Afghanistan, Taliban and the ISIS ...
- Three teens appear in court after Bogside riots
July 17, 2018
Four people – including three teenagers – appeared in court yesterday on charges linked to last week’s disturbances in Londonderry. John Paul Moore of Carlton Court in the city faced three charges of possessing with intent, namely three improvised explosive devices, with making, possessing and throwing petrol bombs, riotous behaviour and with indecently exposing himself to ...
- Counter IED: Defeating The Unseen
July 17, 2018
The Improvised Explosive Device, or IED, is a well-known threat to service members operating in potentially hostile environments like Afghanistan and Iraq. This weapon has inflicted a destructive toll since Operation Enduring Freedom, but 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (LI) aims to combat this menace by teaching the Company Crew Specialist Course at ...
- Are medicines and perceptions banned from hand luggage? Everything you need to know
July 16, 2018
UK FLIGHT restrictions can be difficult to understand when travelling with only hand luggage at the airport. Here we reveal the rules around carrying medicine and prescription drugs. Travellers boarding flights in the UK might not be allowed to carry powdered materials in their hand luggage. Powders that are over 12 ounces could be prevented from being ...
- Investigation reveals elaborate technology terror web
July 16, 2018
In late December 2015 a uniformed Pentagon spokesman, Colonel Steve Warren, made a video announcement about “Operation Inherent Resolve”, the US military’s campaign against the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria. The spokesman gave details about 10 senior IS figures who had been targeted and killed, many in drone strikes, over the course ...
- UN: Civilian Deaths In Afghanistan Hit Record High
July 15, 2018
The United Nations says the number of civilians killed in Afghanistan has reached a record high in the first half of the year, despite last month’s cease-fire. Deaths rose 1 percent to 1,692, although injuries dropped 5 percent to 3,430, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in its latest civilian casualty report released on July ...
- South Africa: Explosive devices a sign of what’s to come?
July 15, 2018
The recent spate of explosive devices found around Durban could be the start of what’s to come. This was the view of two intelligence experts, who said the incidents were being viewed as “trials” to see how police and the public respond – the perpetrators were sending out a discreet message. Several suspicious incendiary devices were found ...
- Suicide bombers kill 132 including political candidate in Pakistan election violence
July 14, 2018
Two suicide bombers have killed 132 people including a political candidate, as violence continues before Pakistan heads to the polls. Friday’s attacks were the deadliest in Pakistan’s troubled election campaign and took place just before disgraced Nawar Sharif was arrested on his return to the country. A suicide bomber killed 128, including candidate Siraj Raisani, in the ...
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