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
- Pakistan: Soldier killed in accidental explosion in Azad Jammu and Kashmir
April 3, 2025
A Pakistan army soldier was martyred, and two others were injured on Tuesday when an “old explosive device” accidentally detonated along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Tetrinote Madarpur ...
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal techs train with interagency partners in Colorado Springs
April 2, 2025
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians trained with law enforcement and airport security personnel to combat Improvised Explosive Devices during a four-day interagency exercise in Colorado ...
- Angola needs $240 million to clear hundreds of civil war minefields
April 2, 2025
Angola requires $240 million from government or donor funding to clear nearly 1,000 minefields from the civil war that ended more than two decades ago, the National Mine Action Agency ...
- Northern Ireland: Objects found in Dromore declared ‘viable pipe bomb type devices’
April 2, 2025
Two objects found near a nursery school in Co Down on Wednesday have been declared “viable devices”. Church Street in Dromore town centre was closed in the afternoon of April 2 ...
- Belgium: Explosion in a law firm in Antwerp
April 2, 2025
A fire broke out in a building housing a law firm after what appears to be an explosive or incendiary bomb was thrown at the building on Wednesday, local police ...
- North Carolina: Agents recover suspect device during search for an armed man in Hoke County
April 2, 2025
A multiagency search was underway Monday evening for an armed man who eluded authorities after a traffic stop that started in Robeson County. It all began about 1 p.m. after agents ...
- Luke AFB EOD Team Trains with Zambia
April 2, 2025
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal Airmen assigned to the 56th Civil Engineering Squadron showcase their mission and train with Zambia Air Force and ...
- Finland: Move to leave convention banning anti-personnel mines could put civilian lives at risk
April 1, 2025
Reacting to news that the Finnish government has initiated the process of withdrawing from the Ottawa convention, a landmark treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel mines, Esther Major, Amnesty International’s ...
- Vietnam: Silently, officers and soldiers of the Engineer Corps in mine clearance
April 1, 2025
In today’s peacetime, there are still silent wars within silence, dangers within dangers and hardships of the Engineer soldiers. That is the war in searching for bombs, mines, and explosives ...
- Luxembourg provides 2.16 mln USD to support mine clearance in Cambodia
April 1, 2025
Luxembourg on Tuesday signed up to provide 2 million euros (about 2.16 million U.S. dollars) to support a mine clearance project in Cambodia. The deal was inked in Phnom Penh in ...
- UK: Former soldier caught with explosive device in Cambuslang jailed
April 1, 2025
A former soldier caught with an explosive device has been jailed for four and a half years. John Carstairs, 44, was held after an army bomb disposal unit was called ...
- Myanmar: Malaysian rescuers in the quake epicentre hampered by aftershocks, landmines
April 1, 2025
A Malaysian search and rescue crew – the first international team to reach Sagaing at the epicentre of Myanmar’s recent earthquake – said aftershocks and the risk of landmines had ...
- Israel: IDF, Shin Bet raid bomb-making lab in Tulkarm, West Bank
April 1, 2025
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) discovered a bomb-making lab in Tulkarm that contained landmines, explosives, explosive-making materials, and a welding machine last week, the military announced on ...
