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
- Russian tanker Midvolga 2 targeted in Black Sea
December 2, 2025
The tanker Midvolga 2, en route from Russia to Georgia carrying a cargo of sunflower oil, came under attack 80 miles off the coast of Turkey, the country’s Ministry of ...
- Bangladesh: Seven petrol bombs, four crude bombs recovered from park in Mohammadpur
December 2, 2025
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have recovered seven petrol bombs, four crude bombs, and various bomb-making materials from a bush inside a park in the capital’s Mohammadpur area. The ...
- Outstanding Airmen of the Year: Staff Sgt. Lucas Shappell, A Perfect Match in EOD
December 1, 2025
Some careers are mapped out long before they begin. For Staff Sgt. Lucas Shappell, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team Leader with the 934th CES, the path to becoming an Air Force ...
- Landmine casualties hit four-year high as treaty setbacks deepen
December 1, 2025
Civilian deaths and injuries from landmines and explosive remnants of war have risen to their highest level in four years, according to the Landmine Monitor 2025 report launched in Geneva ...
- South Africa: Woman arrested with explosives intercepted on route to Hartbeespoort Dam
December 1, 2025
Atteridgeville SAPS has made an arrest when officers apprehended a woman with explosives travelling to Hartebeespoort. The arrest came on November 29 at around 09:00, when police on crime-prevention patrols spotted ...
- Senegal: Damaged Turkish tanker off Dakar coast was hit by explosions
December 1, 2025
A Turkish-owned oil tanker that was damaged near Senegal’s coast last week was hit by four external explosions but there were no injuries or pollution, its manager said on Monday. The ...
- India: Five suspects detained after Bhubaneswar bomb attack
December 1, 2025
A bomb blast near Bhubaneswar’s KV-3 triggered a major probe as police and the NIA detained five suspects, recovered explosive materials, and heightened security amid rising concerns over local safety ...
- West Virginia: Barbour County man arrested after police find multiple explosives at his residence
December 1, 2025
A Barbour County man was arrested when police executed a previous warrant and found multiple explosive devices at his residence. On Sunday, around 4 p.m., the West Virginia State Police ...
- Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention to hold its Twenty-Second Meeting of States Parties from 1 to 5 December 2025
December 1, 2025
The Twenty-Second Meeting of States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is being held from 1 to 5 December 2025 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva. The Meeting opened ...
- US and Syrian forces conduct airstrikes on ISIS weapons storage facilities
November 30, 2025
The U.S. military said on Sunday that it recently destroyed 15 sites containing Islamic State weapons caches in southern Syria. U.S. Central Command said it and Syrian forces identified and ...
- Pakistan: Rail line blown up as wave of blasts rocks Balochistan
November 30, 2025
Seven blasts rocked Quetta and Dera Murad Jamali on Saturday, with one explosion blowing up a section of railway track near the provincial capital and suspending train traffic to other ...
- Kenya: Government unveils national action plan to boost hazardous threat response
November 29, 2025
Kenya has taken a major step in strengthening its ability to deal with dangerous substances by releasing its first national plan dedicated to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. The CBRN ...
- Cambodia-Thailand border: Chinese man wounded in land mine explosion
November 29, 2025
A Chinese man allegedly attempting to cross illegally into Thailand from Cambodia was injured on Saturday when he stepped on a land mine, the Thai army announced, reiterating its charges ...
- South Africa: Two arrested on N1 for possession of explosives
November 29, 2025
Police officers from Polokwane SAPS International Airport have arrested two foreign nationals, aged between 45 and 50-years-old, after they were found in possession of illegal explosives during routine crime-prevention operations ...
- Ukraine hits two Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tankers with drones in Black Sea
November 29, 2025
Ukrainian underwater drones have struck two tankers belonging to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea, according to an official in Ukraine’s security services (SBU). Ukraine claimed the attacks ...
- UK: Alleged mercenary arrested in London over Albanian gang boss kidnap plot
November 29, 2025
An alleged mercenary has been arrested in London over a plot to kidnap the boss of an Albanian crime gang in revenge for a multimillion-pound drug theft. Latvian national Ainis ...
- Russia: Caspian Pipeline Consortium reports halts in Black Sea oil loading after new attack
November 29, 2025
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which handles most of Kazakhstan’s crude exports through Russia to the Black Sea, halted loading after one of its three moorings was damaged amid overnight Ukrainian ...
- Victoria: Man pleads guilty after detonating improvised explosive at defence expo in Melbourne last year
November 27, 2025
An engineer who set off an improvised explosive device in an effort to disrupt an international weapons expo has described it as a “terrible error in judgment”. Shamera Fernando detonated ...

