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
- British Army chef in court over having a gun and explosives, including a homemade ‘cannon’
October 4, 2025
A British Army chef has appeared in court charged with having a gun and explosives, including a homemade “cannon”. Mark Broadhurst, 27, was arrested in September 2024 and two homes ...
- Ohio: Columbus man found with explosives in vehicle during traffic stop
October 3, 2025
A Columbus man is accused of manufacturing explosives after police say they found improvised explosive devices in his vehicle during a traffic stop on the city’s South Side, according to ...
- Nigeria: Thousands flee to Cameroon as Boko Haram seizes border town
October 3, 2025
More than 5,000 people have fled Nigeria’s northeast into neighbouring Cameroon after Boko Haram militants seized the border town of Kirawa in Borno state, residents and community leaders said on ...
- Rescue Borealis exercise boosted Europe’s preparedness for security threats
October 3, 2025
The heightened security situation highlights the need for preparedness in both the Baltic Sea and Euro-Arctic regions. This was the key message from the international Rescue Borealis 2025 field exercise ...
- Vietnam: 220-kg wartime bomb safely neutralised in Da Nang
October 3, 2025
A wartime bomb weighing more than 220kg has been safely defused by the Military Command of Da Nang city after being discovered in Tra Tan commune on October 2. Local residents ...
- RNZN: Working in the ‘real world’ at NATO’s premier IEDD exercise
October 3, 2025
Northern Challenge is NATO’s top Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEDD) exercise, hosted by the Icelandic Coast Guard in Keflavik. It involves Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) forces from 17 countries coming ...
- European countries are now turning to landmines to create new deadly defensive barriers from Russia
October 3, 2025
Five Nato countries neighbouring Russia or its ally, Belarus, have announced that they are to opt out of the Ottawa treaty of 1997. This treaty bans the use by signatories ...
- Ukraine: 1,330 people injured by mines during full-scale war, including 135 children
October 3, 2025
Since the start of the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation, 1,330 people have been injured by mines and explosive remnants in Ukraine, including 135 children. “As of October 1, 2025, ...
- Cambodia: New agreement sees US$5mil earmarked for border mine clearance efforts
October 3, 2025
Cambodia aim to clear more than 41 million square metres of mine-contaminated land across six provinces bordering Thailand, thanks to US$5 million in funding from the “Cambodia Mine-Free 2025 Fund”. A ...
- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 318
October 3, 2025
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today that he is discussing detailed proposals with the Russian Federation and Ukraine on how to restore off-site power to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear ...
- Pakistan: Peshawar IED blast injures four policemen: official
October 2, 2025
At least four policemen were injured on Thursday when their vehicle was hit by the improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Peshawar’s Garhi Qamar Din area, said police. Senior Superintendent of ...
- UK: Two killed and suspect shot dead in Manchester synagogue car ramming and stabbing attack
October 2, 2025
Three people have died, including the suspected attacker, in a car ramming and stabbing attack at a synagogue in Manchester, with the suspect shot by police. The incident came on ...
- Ireland: Explosive device, cocaine and thousands of euro seized from Limerick halting site
October 1, 2025
An explosive device, cocaine, crack cocaine and €5,500 in cash was recovered as gardai swooped on a Traveller site in Limerick. As part of ongoing investigations into the activities of an ...
- Russia: Drone downed at Kursk-II Nuclear Power Plant construction site
October 1, 2025
Asuspected Ukrainian drone has been brought down over Russia’s Kursk NPP, regional governor Alexander Khinshtein reported. It fell on the construction site of the Kursk-II plant, which will replace the ...
- Cambodia records almost 13 pct drop in landmine, ERW casualties in first 9 months of 2025
October 1, 2025
Cambodia reported a total of 34 landmine and explosive remnant of war (ERW) casualties in the first nine months of 2025, down 12.8 percent from 39 over the same period ...
- Ukraine: Demining units of the Security and Defence Forces have neutralized over 1 million explosive devices
September 30, 2025
Since the onset of the full-scale war, demining specialists of the Security and Defence Forces have neutralized more than 1 million explosive devices. As reported by the Main Directorate for Mine ...
