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
- British Columbia: Police dispose of explosive device found inside Prince George home
November 20, 2025
RCMP have allowed residents to return home after successfully disposing of an explosive device found in a residence in downtown Prince George, B.C., Wednesday morning. Officers found the device while conducting ...
- Thailand: First Army reports progress in mine-clearance operations at Ban Nong Chan – Ban Nong Ya Kaew
November 20, 2025
The operation continues to secure hazardous border zones, with teams removing explosives and conducting joint aerial surveys to support upcoming boundary-marker work. On November 19, 2025, the First Army Area, Burapha ...
- Child casualties from explosive weapons at record high
November 20, 2025
More children are being killed and injured by explosive weapons than at any point in modern history, a landmark report has found. It finds that explosive weapons – mainly state ...
- Pakistan: Two police officers killed, four injured as police van targeted in DI Khan
November 20, 2025
Two cops were martyred and four were injured when a police van was targeted with a bomb in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan, an official said. DI Khan District Police ...
- U.S. DEVCOM CBC Supports CBRN Technology Capstone Event
November 20, 2025
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD — The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) assisted the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense ...
- Pakistan: IED explodes prematurely in Bannu, kills terrorist planting bomb
November 19, 2025
One terrorist was killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) he was installing near Doh Ghoda Bridge in Bannu detonated prematurely on Tuesday, while his injured accomplice fled towards a ...
- Kenya: Two police officers killed, three critically injured in Garissa IED attack
November 19, 2025
Two police officers were killed on Wednesday after a Border Patrol Unit (BPU) vehicle ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) along the Liboi–Kulan road in Garissa County, in an ...
- Norway to increase support for Norwegian People’s Aid’s mine clearance activities in Ukraine
November 19, 2025
Mines and other explosive objects are scattered across large areas of Ukraine and are disrupting vital agricultural activities. This is affecting not only Ukraine but also other countries that rely ...
- UK launches next phase of new munitions and energetics factories
November 19, 2025
Multiple sites across the UK for new factories to make munitions and military explosives to boost the UK’s warfighting readiness have been identified as the government moves to the next ...
- Cambodia: VNMAC delegation studies CMAC’s mine clearance expertise
November 18, 2025
A delegation from the Vietnam Mine Action Centre (VNMAC), led by Colonel Pham The Anh, visited the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) headquarters in Phnom Penh yesterday to learn from ...
- Missouri: 18-year-old charged after explosives detonate outside assistant principal’s home
November 18, 2025
An 18-year-old from Ballwin was charged after prosecutors said he and three other teens placed explosives that detonated outside an assistant principal’s home Saturday night. Brian D. Pilarski, 18, was ...
- Azerbaijan: 412 people have fallen victim to landmine explosions since 2020
November 17, 2025
Since the end of the 44-day War of 2020, 412 people have fallen victim to landmine explosions in Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said regarding the recent mine incident ...
- Clearing the Mines 2025 – Report Reveals Worst-Ever Violations of the Mine Ban Convention and Urges Action by States Parties
November 17, 2025
Mine Action Review today published Clearing the Mines 2025, its annual global assessment of anti-personnel (AP) mine contamination, survey, and clearance, ahead of the TwentySecond Meeting of States Parties to ...
- Pakistan: Jaffar Express narrowly escapes another bomb and rocket attack
November 17, 2025
The Jaffar Express—one of Pakistan’s most frequently targeted passenger trains—narrowly escaped yet another bomb and rocket attack in Balochistan’s Nasirabad district on Sunday, marking the latest strike in a months-long ...
- Cambodia: CMAC destroys 44,000 mines, UXO in first 10 months
November 17, 2025
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) cleared more than 14,000 hectares of land and destroyed nearly 44,000 landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the first 10 months of this year, ...
- Poland: Explosion damaged Warsaw-Lublin rail line in suspected sabotage
November 17, 2025
An explosive device damaged railway tracks on the Warsaw-Lublin line in what Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an act of sabotage, with further track damage reported on another route, authorities ...
- UK: Two men arrested on suspicion of explosives offence after bomb squad called to Sunderland recycling centre
November 17, 2025
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of an offence under Section 4 of the Explosive Substances Act after the discovery of a suspicious item caused Sunderland Household Waste and ...
- Michigan, New Jersey and Washington terror plot arrests reveal a dangerous path to ISIS self-radicalization
November 16, 2025
They live in New Jersey, Michigan and Washington state — six young men arrested in recent weeks and charged in an alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot. The suspects, among others, are accused ...
