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
- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 299
July 1, 2025
The IAEA team based at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been informed of a drone attack that damaged several vehicles near the site’s cooling pond last week, Director ...
- Iraq: UNAMI condemns ‘attack’ on Yazidi IDP Camp in Duhok
July 1, 2025
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) on Tuesday strongly condemned an explosion that struck the Darkar camp housing internally displaced Yazidis in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, calling ...
- Nigeria: ISWAP Terrorists Eliminated While Planting IEDs on Borno Highway
June 30, 2025
Troops of Sector 2, Operation Hadin Kai, have successfully neutralised two suspected fighters of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) who were attempting to plant Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) ...
- Northern Ireland: Man charged with possessing armour-plating explosive device granted bail
June 30, 2025
A Co Fermanagh man charged with possessing an armour-plating explosive device has been granted bail at the High Court. A judge ruled there were “exceptional circumstances’’ to permit Emmett Maguire to ...
- Iraq: Kirkuk Air Base and residential area hit by rocket attack
June 30, 2025
At least two rockets struck the Kirkuk Air Base and a nearby residential neighborhood in Kirkuk governorate on Monday night (June 30, 2025), according to security sources. One source reported that ...
- Colorado: ‘Large, homemade firecracker’ shuts down CSPD’s Falcon substation
June 30, 2025
Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) says that a “large, homemade firecracker” temporarily shut down parts of the Falcon substation on Sunday. According to CSPD, at approximately 11:30 a.m. on June 29, ...
- U.S. Navy and Marine Corps EOD Technicians Conduct Live Mine Countermeasure Operations During IWO-TO LIVE MINEX 2025
June 29, 2025
IWOTO, Japan – U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 participated in IWO-TO LIVE MINEX 2025, a bilateral mine countermeasures (MCM) ...
- Israel: IDF destroys IED site in northern Gaza
June 29, 2025
Troops from the Givati Brigade, under the command of the 162nd Division, are operating in the area of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip as part of Operation “Gideon’s Chariots”. In ...
- India: 500 detonators, 28 IEDs seized by security forces in Jharkhand
June 29, 2025
Security forces seized a huge quantity of explosives from a Maoist dump in a forest in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharswan district, a police officer said on Sunday. The explosives including 500 electronic detonators ...
- Syria: Emergency Minister, International Organizations discuss structure of National Mine Action Center
June 29, 2025
Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh discussed with representatives of international organizations and UN agencies the draft work plan for the National Mine Action Center in Syria and ...
- Israel: IDF sapper killed in IED explosion in Gaza Strip
June 29, 2025
The Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday that Sergeant Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld had been killed in action in the the Gaza Strip. According to reports, Rosenfeld was fatally wounded as an ...
- Ukraine on track to withdraw from Ottawa anti-personnel mines treaty
June 29, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had signed a decree to pull Ukraine out of the Ottawa Convention banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines as a necessary ...
