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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- Service and Sacrifice: Guinean peacekeepers make their mark in Mali
March 18, 2019
As the sun rises over Mali’s vast desert, a group of 20 peacekeepers prepare their equipment and line up to receive instructions before heading out for their first patrol of the day on one of the most dangerous roads in the region. They are Guinean Blue Helmets from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) ...
- Four Killed in Balochistan in Second Train Attack in Two Weeks
March 18, 2019
Four people were killed and 10 injured in Pakistan on Sunday when a bomb went off on a train track in the resource-rich province of Balochistan, where separatist rebels have been fighting the security forces for years. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but ethnic Baluch separatists, fighting what they call the unfair exploitation of their province’s ...
- 11 Taliban militants killed, 2 suicide vests, house-borne IED destroyed in Kunduz
March 17, 2019
At least 11 Taliban militants were killed, 2 suicide bombing vests and a house-borne Improvised Explosive Device were destroyed during the operations of Afghan Special Forces and airstrike in northern Kunduz province. According to informed military sources, the Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Charah Darah district killing 11 Taliban fighters and wounding 2 others. The ...
- Christchurch shootings: 49 dead in New Zealand mosque attacks
March 15, 2019
Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The first report of an attack came from the Al Noor mosque, located in central Christchurch. Witnesses told local media they ran for their lives, and saw people bleeding on the ground outside the building. A second mosque ...
- Thailand: Three wounded in Tak Bai outpost attacks
March 14, 2019
Two soldiers and a villager were wounded in bomb and shooting attacks on a military outpost in Tak Bai district. The explosion caused the outpost and a nearby boatshed to catch fire. Narathiwat police chief Pol Maj Gen Dusadee Chusangkit led police, explosive ordnance disposal officers and forensic officials to inspect the military outpost along Sungai ...
- NSWC Indian Head EOD Technology Division Scientist Receives Prestigious Navy Medal
March 14, 2019
The Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award was presented to Dr. Richard Lee, a recently retired scientist, at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division during an award presentation held on base Wednesday. This is the third highest award granted to career civilian employees by the Navy and is ...
- Pulwama mastermind Mudasir Khan’s killing a major blow to JeM: IG Kashmir
March 12, 2019
The elimination of Mudasir Ahmed Khan – the key mastermind of Pulwama suicide attack – during an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Tral locality on Monday is a significant dent to the Pakistan-backed terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), a senior J&K police official has said. Mudasir Ahmed Khan alias ‘Mohammad bhai’ was recruited as an overground worker ...
- ‘IRA’ says it is responsible for parcel bombs – Police
March 12, 2019
A group calling itself the IRA says it was behind the parcel bombs sent to three London transport hubs and the University of Glasgow last week, according to police. Officers say the group claimed five devices were sent but only four have been found so far. Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police have said the claim was ...
- Austria’s Kneissl Thanks Lavrov For Supporting Vienna’s Mine Clearance Initiative In Syria
March 12, 2019
Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl expressed gratitude on Tuesday to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for supporting Vienna‘s initiative on humanitarian mine clearance in Syria, which is aimed at helping create conditions for the return of refugees and displaced people. Last November, Kneissl announced that Austria and Slovenia launched a joint mine clearance initiative in the Arab country. In December 2018, the foreign minister said that the Austrian government would provide 2 millionEuros (around $2.2 million) ...
- Jihadis turn a donkey into suicide bomber by strapping IED to it in Yemen
March 12, 2019
Shocking photos purport to show cruel jihadis strapping a bomb to a donkey – then using it to blow up a checkpoint. The photos were published in recent extremist propaganda for Ansar al-Sharia, an al-Qaeda linked terror group operating in Yemen. The unwitting suicide bomber was reportedly used to strike at a checkpoint manned by Houthi militants, ...
- Bomb exploded “that shook windows” on West Sussex beach
March 12, 2019
Coastguards in Selsey have been called to deal with another unexploded wartime bomb. Crews got the shout to Medmerry Beach on Monday lunchtime after reports of ordnance being found. Bomb disposal experts also attended the scene, however the ordnance was being covered by the tide on arrival and with approximately 55 minutes until high tide the team ...
- Japan contributes to Explosive Hazard Management in Somalia
March 11, 2019
UNMAS, The Embassy of Japan to Kenya Explosive hazards continue to have a detrimental impact on peacebuilding and state building in Somalia. Over the past years, extremist groups have used improvised explosive devices (IED) as their preferred weapon against the Federal Government of Somalia and the African Union Mission to Somalia. In addition to the IED ...
- Las Vegas airport to test machines to detect explosives
March 11, 2019
As Las Vegas’ airport continues to see record-breaking passenger traffic, keeping those travelers safe is a top priority. McCarran International Airport is set to test four explosive detection machines at the Terminal 3 security checkpoint, county Director of Aviation Rosemary Vassiliadis said last month during her presentation to the Assembly Committee on Infrastructure and Growth. The project, ...
- Four top technical vendors & OEM’s to present at Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness 2019 in three weeks’ time
March 11, 2019
SMi reports: Microflown Avisa, Collins Aerospace, BAE Systems and Patria Land Systems to present exclusive briefings at Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness conference this April in London. SMi Group will host the 4th annual Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness conference in London on the 3rd and 4th April 2019. Future land forces must prepare for high intensity ...
- Thailand: Series of Bomb Attacks Strike Southern Region
March 10, 2019
Several small bombs exploded in the Deep South and in two nearby provinces beginning late Saturday, officials said Sunday, the day insurgents marked the 110th anniversary of a treaty where Thailand returned parts of its far south to Britain. Attackers successfully detonated bombs at public places in Pakpayoon district and Maung district of Pattalung province, followed ...
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