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.
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- Philippines: Westmincom on guard against suicide bombings
August 12, 2019
The Islamic State-inspired Abu Sayyaf group and foreign militants that are with them are planning more suicide bombings after their June 28 attack in Sulu, the chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command said Monday. “So we have monitored that they will continue to do it,” Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana told a local TV station here. Sobejana assured ...
- Army bomb disposal unit carried out controlled explosion of grenade at building site in Deepcut
August 12, 2019
A bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion of a “legacy grenade” at a building site in Deepcut. The Army’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team were called to a building site close to Aisne Road in Deepcut at around 2pm on Friday (August 9) at the request of Surrey Police. The bomb disposal unit found a grenade at the site that ...
- Leicestershire: ‘Unexploded devices’ found in river near King Power Stadium, police cordon off towpath
August 11, 2019
People fishing with powerful magnets have once again found what are thought to be unexploded devices in the River Soar in Leicester. A group searching a section of the water near Leicester’s King Power Stadium retrieved what they believed to be two grenades at 3pm. Police sealed off a stretch of the path and contacted the Army’s Explosive Ordinance ...
- 5 years after IS atrocities, young Yazidis team up to clear explosive hazards in northern Iraq
August 10, 2019
After five years of massive atrocities committed against the Yazidi minority by Islamic State (IS) militants in Sinjar region, explosive remnants from the anti-IS war still pose a threat to civilians’ lives in the region. Through a project by the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), young men and women from the ravaged Yazidi community have teamed ...
- Bomb damages Colombia’s Cano Limon crude pipeline
August 10, 2019
A bomb has damaged a section of Colombia’s Cano Limon pipeline, state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Saturday, the twenty-sixth attack on the pipeline this year. The attack, which took in Las Bancas in eastern Arauquita municipality, did not contaminate any water sources, the company said in a statement. It did cause a small spill which ...
- Special Forces foil suicide attacks planned for Eid days in Kabul and Nangarhar
August 10, 2019
The Special Forces of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) foiled suicide attacks planned for Eid days in Kabul and Nangarhar. The Nangarhar governor Shah Mahmood Mia Khel told reporters that the NDS Special Forces confiscated six suicide bombing vests and some other military kits during an operation. Mia Khel further added that the militant groups wanted ...
- Philippines: Training on recognizing explosive ordnance ends with 36 graduates
August 10, 2019
Safety and security is everyone’s concern. With several news reports of bomb threats and bombing incidents nationwide, including the confiscation of improvised explosive devices (IED) from several alleged communist members nabbed in Central Visayas, there is a serious need for a joint anti-terror effort. And so the five-day Explosive Ordnance Recognizance (EOR) Training was held in Cebu ...
- Explosion outside police station in Copenhagen – days after similar blast
August 10, 2019
An explosion has taken place outside a police station in Copenhagen – days after a blast at another public building in the Danish capital. The explosion, at about 3.20am, caused damage to the ground floor of the police station in Norrebro, which is just outside the city centre, but did not injure anyone. On Tuesday, police said ...
- Big booms, fire part of explosives training in Texas
August 9, 2019
Law enforcement officers always run toward danger. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports on Wednesday they recorded video and stared in awe as several types of explosives were ignited at the McCampbell-Porter Airport in Aransas Pass. Agents and officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, along with the Corpus Christi Police Department Bomb Squad and ...
- Ukraine: First stage of mine clearance completed in Luhansk region
August 9, 2019
Chairman of Luhansk Regional Military and Civil Administration Vitaliy Komarnytskiy has said the first stage of a mine clearance operation in the region has been completed. Demining teams of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have cleared about 44 hectares (ha) of farmland and 16 ha of roads and the forest belt from explosive objects, he ...
- Deployment lull set to end for Nevada Guard Soldiers
August 9, 2019
This year, the end of summer will mark the end of a long break for both Nevada students and Soldiers alike. It’s been two relatively quiet, homebound years since a Nevada Army Guard has been deployed abroad. But contrary to late-summer days, the deployment schedule is heating up for the five departing Army Guard units that ...
- Demining works underway in Armenia’s Syunik Province
August 9, 2019
The Center for Humanitarian Demining and Expertise SNCO is performing demining works in the Davit Bek settlement of Kapan community and in the Kornidzor settlement of Tegh community of the Syunik Province. Based on the Center’s press release, the demining works in the Davit Bek settlement are being performed jointly with the Foundation for Demining and ...
- A Vegas Man Was Arrested For Plotting A White Supremacist Attack On An LGBTQ Bar And Synagogue
August 9, 2019
A Las Vegas man who once claimed he was protecting his neighborhood while patrolling on foot with an assault rifle has been arrested and charged with plotting to carry out an attack on a synagogue and LGBTQ bar in the city. Conor Climo, 23, allegedly sent encrypted messages to white supremacists this year discussing a possible ...
- French, British experts train Liberian troops for deployment in Mali
August 8, 2019
French and British military experts have completed weeks of training Liberian military personnel to prepare them for the Sixth deployment of Liberian troops to Mali in September for UN peacekeeping operation.Mali has been battling terrorist attacks for years, and Liberia has been one of many countries that have been helping to restore peace there under ...
- Afghan forces foil 90 terrorist attacks in Kabul city by storming 3 ISIS hideouts
August 8, 2019
The Afghan security forces foiled at least 90 terrorist attacks in Kabul city by storming 3 ISIS hideouts in the city. Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the security forces stormed the ISIS hideouts based on the information recovered from a detained militant. Rahimi further added that the security forces arrested the ...
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