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
- Ireland: Explosive device In Wexford made safe
April 12, 2025
A man has been arrested after a suspicious device was found at a home in Wexford town. The Army bomb disposal unit was called to the scene following the discovery at ...
- Lithuania pledges additional EUR 30 mln for military support to Ukraine at Ramstein
April 12, 2025
Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Dovilė Šakalienė announced new contributions for military aid to Ukrainians at the 27th meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine’s Defence in the Ramstein format ...
- Israel: IDF reservist seriously hurt after unit mistakenly enters minefield on Lebanon border
April 12, 2025
An Israel Defense Forces reservist was seriously wounded after being struck by a landmine when his unit mistakenly entered an Israeli minefield during operations on the Lebanon border, the military ...
- Wisconsin teen allegedly killed parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump
April 12, 2025
A Wisconsin teen allegedly killed his parents to “obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary” to kill President Donald Trump and overthrow the U.S. government, federal authorities said in court ...
- Greece: Explosion outside the Hellenic Train offices in Athens
April 12, 2025
Video of the moment of the explosion outside the offices of Hellenic Train on Syngrou Avenue is brought to light by protothema.gr. In the visual material the big flash was ...
- Trump authorizes military to take control of public land along southern border
April 12, 2025
President Trump on Friday night authorized the military to take control of a strip of public land along the southern border. The president justified the use of the military by ...
- Australian opposition leader’s home targeted in alleged bomb plot
April 11, 2025
Australia’s opposition leader Peter Dutton has confirmed that his family home was the target of an alleged bomb plot, but insisted the incident would not hinder his campaign to replace ...
- Lake Chad: Under the radar, women traffic IED parts to Boko Haram
April 11, 2025
In February last year, two women were arrested in Kolofata, Cameroon, near the Nigerian border, for carrying tiny amounts of ammonium nitrate fertiliser. Kolofata’s gendarmerie brigade commander Ntsie Virgile, who told ...
- Europol: AK rifles and grenades seized as firearms trafficking route into France dismantled
April 11, 2025
Seven suspects have been arrested in connection with the gang, which is believed to have sourced high-powered weapons from illegal markets in the Western Balkans and trafficked them into France ...
- Sri Lanka: US Government identifies mastermind of 2019 Easter Sunday attack
April 11, 2025
In an extraordinary affidavit submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the United States government, through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has definitively identified ...
- Vietnam: Quảng Trị an exemplary model in handling explosive remnants of war
April 11, 2025
After nearly 30 years of international cooperation for unexploded ordnance (UXO) removal, the central province of Quảng Trị has become a model for addressing the consequences of war. Quảng Trị is ...
- Ukraine allies pledge €21bn in fresh military aid
April 11, 2025
Ukraine’s European allies have pledged €21bn ($24bn; £18bn) in a new tranche of military support for Kyiv in what they described as “a critical year” for the war. More than half ...
- Niger army says 15 terrorists killed in security operations
April 10, 2025
The army of Niger has confirmed that it had killed 15 terrorists in operations last Sunday in the western part of the country. According to its weekly bulletin released on Wednesday, ...
- Japan: Okinawa construction unearths more US shells 80 years after WWII battle
April 10, 2025
Japanese troops recently removed and neutralized three World War II-era U.S. artillery shells uncovered at construction sites across southern Okinawa and detonated another offshore, according to local officials. The discoveries, made ...
- Pakistan: Police defuse 15kg bomb in Lakki Marwat
April 10, 2025
The police foiled a terror bid by defusing an indigenously made bomb in Wanda Maidali area of Lakki Marwat district on Wednesday. A police official said that unknown miscreants had planted ...
- Cambodia: Nearly half of mine accidents occur outside identified minefields
April 10, 2025
Nearly half of all mine accidents in Cambodia over the past decade have occurred outside of officially identified minefields—an alarming indicator that vast areas remain unsurveyed. The government has tasked the ...
- U.S. Marine Corps to Deploy Counter-Drone Systems Across Units in 2025
April 9, 2025
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The proliferation of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems presents a significant tactical challenge for modern military forces. As adversaries across the globe increasingly mature and ...
- ADF Sappers ensure Nauru is safe
April 9, 2025
A team of ADF explosives experts worked with Government of Nauru authorities to dispose of two World War 2-era unexploded ordnance (UXO) discovered in a residential area on March 18. Led ...
