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
- Nepal: Protesters defy curfew, set fire to leaders’ homes
September 9, 2025
Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned Tuesday, Reuters reported, after days of mass protests over a social media ban and official corruption in the Himalayan nation culminated in the ...
- Tunisia: Gaza aid flotilla says boat struck by drone at Sidi Bou Said port
September 9, 2025
An activist group seeking to break Israel’s siege on Gaza by sea said one of its main boats was struck by a drone at a port in Tunisia Monday night, ...
- Thailand: Police discover abandoned van with Superpower 90 explosives inside
September 8, 2025
On Sunday, Police at Mae Sai station in Chiang Rai received a report about a suspicious sack inside a van parked near a shopping mall in Mae Sai Municipality, only ...
- Ireland: Gardaí investigate bomb threat to Simon Harris’s Wicklow home in major security operation
September 8, 2025
Gardaí are investigating claims that a bomb has been left at the home of Tánaiste Simon Harris in Greystones, Co Wicklow. Multiple calls were made to An Garda Síochána claiming there ...
- Ukraine: Without structural reform of mine action system, clearing farmland will take decades
September 8, 2025
About a quarter of Ukraine’s territory – over 13.9 million hectares – has been affected by hostilities, of which 9.85 million hectares of farmland in 10 regions remain inaccessible for ...
- Northern Ireland: Man arrested in Belfast following security alert
September 8, 2025
A man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing and making explosives after a security alert in Belfast. Police were searching a property at Bentham Drive, off Sandy Row in the ...
- Israel: Six dead in shooting attack at Ramot Junction in Jerusalem
September 8, 2025
Six people were murdered and 12 others injured in a Monday morning shooting attack at the Ramot Junction in Jerusalem. Twelve of the victims were evacuated to hospitals, among them ...
- Nigeria: UN condemns killings of 63 villagers in Borno
September 8, 2025
The United Nations (UN) has condemned the killing of 63 people, including soldiers in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists. More than 50 people were killed ...
- TSA plans two major IT services contracts worth over $150M
September 8, 2025
The Transportation Security Administration has outlined two upcoming contract opportunities with a combined value of more than $150 million. Both efforts, published Friday in the Department of Homeland Security’s Acquisition Planning ...
- Netherlands: Police secure explosive device in Baarn, suspect arrested
September 7, 2025
Police arrested a suspect on Sunday morning after an explosive device was discovered near a home on Professor Fockema Andreaelaan in Baarn. According to RTV Utrecht, no detonation occurred. The explosive ...
- Pennsylvania: FBI Honors Bucks County K9 Team For Role In Domestic Bombing Case
September 7, 2025
Bucks County Deputy Sheriff Christina Brewerton and her K9 partner, Zeke, have received a special commendation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – Newark Division – for their assistance ...
- Syria: 10,672 people killed in Syria since fall of Al-Assad regime, including 3,020 people extrajudicially executed
September 7, 2025
Nine months passed after the fall of Al-Assad regime and dissociation of military and security institutions, which caused critical security vacuum throughout Syria and left military forces which later took ...
- New Zealand: Huntly man built pipe bomb to scare off ‘undesirable’ neighbours
September 6, 2025
After having his belongings stolen, and the windows of his car and Kāinga Ora home smashed, Warren John Frederick Lee had had enough. The 76-year-old former quarry worker decided to make ...
- Pakistan: At least one killed in Bajaur explosion during cricket match
September 6, 2025
At least one person was killed in a bomb blast while a cricket match was being played in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on Saturday, according to the police. Bajaur District Police ...
- Cameroon: Separatists claim deadly roadside attack that killed 7 soldiers
September 6, 2025
A separatist group has claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb attack that detonated in southwestern Cameroon, killing seven soldiers. The attack happened Friday morning near the town of Malende, according to ...
- Pakistan: Two injured in explosives-laden motorbike attack in Khuzdar
September 6, 2025
Two people sustained injuries on Saturday when explosives planted in a motorbike went off in the Naal area of Khuzdar, Balochistan. Police confirmed that unidentified attackers had rigged the motorbike with ...
- Deadly threat of unexploded bombs in the Pacific persists 80 years on
September 6, 2025
This year is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, but in some countries, the trail of death and destruction continues. Bombs, nearly a century old, are ...
- U.S. Northern Command Wraps Up Arctic Edge 25
September 5, 2025
U.S. Northern Command successfully concluded Arctic Edge 25, a joint and combined, multidomain field training exercise conducted across Alaska from Aug. 1-31. The exercise demonstrated readiness, enhanced interoperability and advanced ...
