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
- UK: Man to stand trial accused of having items to make explosive devices
December 9, 2024
A man will stand trial next year accused of having items to make explosive devices. Shazad Khan faced the allegation as he appeared in the dock at the High Court ...
- Leveraging new technology for a mine-free future
December 9, 2024
The devastating legacy of armed conflict – often marked by the indiscriminate use of landmines, improvised explosive devices and other explosive ordnance – poses a significant humanitarian challenge. Innovation in ...
- India: Three killed in Murshidabad crude bomb explosion
December 9, 2024
At least three were killed and several others sustained injuries in an explosion whilst allegedly producing illegal crude bombs in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, according to police reports on Monday. The ...
- Lockerbie wreckage moved to US for bombing trial
December 9, 2024
A section of the American airliner which exploded over Lockerbie 35 years ago is being transported to the US for the trial of the man accused of making the bomb. The ...
- Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID
December 9, 2024
After years of rumours that the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in China, the virologist at the centre of the claims has presented data on dozens of ...
- Russia: FSB warns of growing attempts by foreign intel services to drag Russians into terrorism
December 9, 2024
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported an increase in the number of attempts by foreign special services, including Ukrainian ones, to remotely involve Russians into terrorist activities through blackmail, deception ...
- Ukraine: Explosives technicians neutralize unexploded warhead of Kh-101 missile in Chernivtsi region
December 9, 2024
Explosives technicians from Ukraine’s National Police have neutralized an unexploded warhead from a Russian Kh-101 missile in the southwestern Chernivtsi region. Law enforcement officers discovered the unexploded warhead of the ...
- Syrian Rebel Leader Still Has $10 Million U.S. Bounty on His Head
December 8, 2024
Ahmad al-Sharaa, known as Muhammad al-Jawlani or Abu Muhammad al-Golani, the leader of the Syrian rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad and have taken over the country, still has a $10 ...
- Israel: IDF takes over Syrian Hermon, strikes Syrian chemical weapons factory
December 8, 2024
The IDF, on Sunday afternoon, took over the Syrian side of the Mount Hermon mountain range to expand a demilitarized buffer zone along the border with Syria and also at ...
- Netherlands: Suspicious car found set on fire shortly after fatal apartment explosion in The Hague
December 8, 2024
Authorities in The Hague said that a suspicious car was found set on fire close to the location where a series of explosions and a fire at an apartment building ...
- Russia: 12 detained over terror plot in Dagestan
December 8, 2024
Twelve individuals accused of planning a large-scale terrorist attack have been detained in Russia’s southern Dagestan Republic, local media reported Saturday. Law enforcement officers seized two improvised explosive devices, a ton ...
- Syria: Opposition fighters declare Damascus ‘liberated’, al-Assad ousted
December 8, 2024
Syria opposition forces have declared that the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad has come to an end, hours after fighters entered the capital, Damascus, following a lightning advance across ...

