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: Peshawar IED blast injures four policemen: official
October 2, 2025
At least four policemen were injured on Thursday when their vehicle was hit by the improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Peshawar’s Garhi Qamar Din area, said police. Senior Superintendent of ...
- UK: Two killed and suspect shot dead in Manchester synagogue car ramming and stabbing attack
October 2, 2025
Three people have died, including the suspected attacker, in a car ramming and stabbing attack at a synagogue in Manchester, with the suspect shot by police. The incident came on ...
- Ireland: Explosive device, cocaine and thousands of euro seized from Limerick halting site
October 1, 2025
An explosive device, cocaine, crack cocaine and €5,500 in cash was recovered as gardai swooped on a Traveller site in Limerick. As part of ongoing investigations into the activities of an ...
- Russia: Drone downed at Kursk-II Nuclear Power Plant construction site
October 1, 2025
Asuspected Ukrainian drone has been brought down over Russia’s Kursk NPP, regional governor Alexander Khinshtein reported. It fell on the construction site of the Kursk-II plant, which will replace the ...
- Cambodia records almost 13 pct drop in landmine, ERW casualties in first 9 months of 2025
October 1, 2025
Cambodia reported a total of 34 landmine and explosive remnant of war (ERW) casualties in the first nine months of 2025, down 12.8 percent from 39 over the same period ...
- Ukraine: Demining units of the Security and Defence Forces have neutralized over 1 million explosive devices
September 30, 2025
Since the onset of the full-scale war, demining specialists of the Security and Defence Forces have neutralized more than 1 million explosive devices. As reported by the Main Directorate for Mine ...
- Turkey: Unmanned sea vehicle of unknown origin found off the coast of Trabzon
September 30, 2025
An unmanned sea vehicle of unknown origin was found by fishermen at night off the coast of Trabzon’s Çarşıbaşı district. On suspicion that it may be loaded with a bomb, ...
- Pakistan: At least 10 dead, 32 injured in bomb blast near Quetta’s FC headquarters
September 30, 2025
At least 10 people were killed and 32 were injured on Tuesday after a bomb blast ripped through a busy street near Quetta’s Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters, officials said. According to ...
- ADF: Taking mine clearance to the next level
September 29, 2025
A pair of rockets launch from an M1150 assault breacher vehicle over an anti-tank minefield trailing 110m lines, each covered with 750 kilograms of explosives. A thunderous explosion erupts as ...
- Nigeria: Teenager killed in suspected IED blast in Borno
September 29, 2025
The Police Command in Borno has confirmed the death of a 13-year-old boy following an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in Monguno Local Government Area. The explosive is suspected to ...
- Gulf of Aden: Dutch cargo ship adrift and ablaze after attack
September 29, 2025
The Dutch-flagged general cargo ship Minervagracht is on fire and drifting in the Gulf of Aden after an attack with an explosive device required the helicopter rescue of its 19 ...
- Cambodia: US pledges $600,000 in demining support
September 29, 2025
The United States signed a Grant Cooperation Agreement worth $600,000 on Saturday to support Cambodia’s demining efforts over a five-month period from November to April next year. The funds will be ...
- Michigan: 4 dead and 8 injured in church shooting and fire
September 29, 2025
The person accused in a fatal shooting and fire Sunday at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township is a 40-year-old area man with a ...
- Ukrainian forces destroyed airborne Russian Mi-8 helicopter with FPV drone
September 29, 2025
Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, Commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, has reported that Ukrainian forces have destroyed a Russian Mi-8 attack helicopter. Magyar on social media; 59th Separate Assault Brigade of Unmanned ...
- Tracking the Invisible Threat: Persistent Explosive Residues in Raw and Drinking Water Bodies
September 27, 2025
This study provides a comprehensive nationwide assessment of explosive residues and their degradation products in French water resources and drinking water, including mainland and overseas territories. A total of 54 target ...
- Syria: Two people injured in IED explosion inside car in Jdaydit Artouz
September 27, 2025
An IED planted early in a car, exploded while a person was attempting to dismantle it in front of Al-Fardous building in Jdadit Artouz town in Rif Dimashq. The explosion left ...
- Hawaii: EOD technicians train for maritime operations
September 26, 2025
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii — Service members and interagency partners from across the Department of Defense and federal, state, and local organizations gathered September 22, 2025, on Oahu to take part ...
- UK: Live hand grenade and WW2 shell removed by Navy divers
September 26, 2025
A team of Royal Navy divers from HMNB Devonport disposed of a live grenade and a World War Two shell in two separate call-outs. The team first responded to a grenade ...
