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: North Waziristan school building damaged in suspected drone strike
February 26, 2026
A government high school building in North Waziristan was severely damaged in a suspected drone strike late on Wednesday night, just days before educational institutions were scheduled to reopen. Fortunately, ...
- Michigan: Ionia corrections officer stockpiled 196 guns, explosives and stolen prison munitions
February 25, 2026
Newly obtained court records paint a far more alarming picture of the weapons and explosives authorities say they found at the home of an Ionia County corrections officer whose backyard ...
- Nigeria: ISWAP commander ‘dies from IED planted by his own faction’ in Borno
February 25, 2026
A senior commander of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has reportedly been killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by members of his own faction in Borno. According ...
- UNODC facilitates regional exchange on strengthening cross-border coordination in countering use of IEDs and drones in the Sahel
February 25, 2026
Terrorist violence continues to pose a serious threat to stability and security across West Africa, with the Sahel region remaining the epicentre of global terrorism-related deaths. In recent years, terrorist groups, ...
- Syria begins mine clearance at UNESCO-listed Ruwayha site in Idlib
February 25, 2026
Engineering teams have begun removing mines and unexploded ordnance from the archaeological site of Ruwayha in southern Idlib, the Syrian Arab Republic’s state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday. The operation ...
- Nigeria: Vehicle damaged in IED explosion in Zamfara
February 25, 2026
An Improvised Explosive Device exploded early Wednesday along the Gusau–Funtua highway in Zamfara State, damaging a trailer conveying cement at Unguwar Mai Chida and disrupting traffic. The device is suspected to ...
- Northern Ireland: Fresh appeal for information over couple killed in car bomb in 1990
February 25, 2026
A fresh appeal for information has been made over the killing of a former police officer and his wife by a car bomb in 1990. James Sefton, 65, and his ...
- Thailand: Border patrol police arsenal explodes in Surin
February 24, 2026
Continuous explosions were heard as a huge wall of flames rose from the arsenal of the Border Patrol Police 21 command centre in this northeastern province bordering Cambodia on Tuesday ...
- Pakistan: Two policemen killed as suicide bomber targets checkpost in Bhakkar
February 24, 2026
Two policemen were martyred in a suicide blast at a checkpost in the jurisdiction of Punjab’s Bhakkar district on Tuesday evening, according to officials. Bhakkar District Police Officer (DPO) Shahzad Rafiq ...
- East Africa: Rising Al-Shabaab threats along Somali-Kenyan border
February 24, 2026
The Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism has warned of escalating terrorist threats along the Somali-Kenyan border during the holy month of Ramadan, citing a “bloody strategy” by the militant group ...
- Mexico, a country without drug lords
February 24, 2026
When the Mexican Navy killed Heriberto Lazcano, the leader of the fearsome Los Zetas cartel who pioneered narco-terrorism in Mexico, in 2012, El Mencho was just beginning to emerge. He ...
- Ukraine: Explosion during ammunition demonstration injures two students at Dnipro school
February 24, 2026
An explosion occurred at a school in the city of Dnipro on Feb. 23 during a classroom demonstration of ammunition, injuring two children, according to regional police. Authorities said the incident ...
- Syria, Ukraine discuss cooperation on landmine clearance
February 24, 2026
Syria’s Minister of Emergency Management and Disaster Response, Raed al-Saleh, met a Ukrainian delegation in Damascus to discuss expanding cooperation on clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), the ministry said. The ...
- Russia: Traffic policeman killed in Moscow blast
February 24, 2026
The Russian Investigative Committee’s department in Moscow confirmed that one traffic police officer was killed in a blast in front of the Savyolovsky railway station in the Russian capital, and ...
- Ukraine: Explosion at police station in Dnipro classified as terrorist act
February 24, 2026
An explosion at a police station in Dnipro has been classified as a terrorist act. According to Ukrinform, this was reported on Telegram by the Office of the Prosecutor General. At ...
- Mexico: State Attorney General’s Office attacked with drone in Buenavista
February 23, 2026
The attacks of organized crime against institutions do not cease. During the early hours of this Monday, the offices of the State Attorney General’s Office in Buenavista were attacked. According to ...
- Poland prepares to lay mines to defend eastern borders from Russian threat
February 23, 2026
Poland on Friday formally withdrew from the Ottawa Treaty, an international convention that bans anti-personnel landmines, paving the way for their deployment along its eastern borders. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk ...
- Thailand: Bomb blast targets local military unit in Narathiwat
February 23, 2026
Insurgents in this southern border province detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) along a rural road in tambon Dusongyo in Chanae district on Saturday, local officials said yesterday. Officials said the ...

