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
- India: Police officer killed, three others injured in IED blast during anti-Naxal operation in Bijapur
August 18, 2025
A jawan from the Chhattisgarh Police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) lost his life and three others got injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites exploded in Bijapur ...
- UNODC: Organized crime dynamics in the context of war in Ukraine
August 18, 2025
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022, the political economy of Ukraine has been profoundly transformed. The aggression affected both licit and illicit trade ...
- New Jersey: 177th Civil Engineer Squadron trains with NJ state agencies for World Cup security
August 17, 2025
ATLANTIC CITY AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.J. – Airmen from the 177th Civil Engineer Squadron of the New Jersey Air National Guard participated in a training exercise with the 21st ...
- India: Three arrested after 10 tons of explosives seized from cattle shed in Ganjam
August 17, 2025
In a major breakthrough, Kandhamal police on Sunday unearthed a sensational case involving the seizure of a huge cache of explosives from a model cattle shed in Jagannathpur village under ...
- Nigeria confirms capture of Ansaru leaders
August 16, 2025
he Nigerian Government has confirmed the capture of two top leaders of Ansaru, the Al-Qaeda affiliate operating in the country, following a months-long intelligence-led operation. According to him, the duo have ...
- Syria: Explosive device planted inside car goes off in Mezzeh area of Damascus
August 16, 2025
An explosive device planted inside an old car exploded this evening in the Mezzeh area of Damascus, causing no injuries. Commander of the Internal Security Forces in Damascus Governorate, Brigadier General ...
- Ethiopia Requests UN to Extend Landmine Clearance Deadline for Third Time
August 16, 2025
Ethiopia has requested the UN to again extend a deadline to clear landmines left strewn by wars old and new, placing people at risk on more than 125 million hectares ...
- Peru: Explosion in Trujillo injures 10 people and damages 25 homes
August 15, 2025
An explosion on a street in a northern Peruvian region plagued by organized crime injured at least 10 people and damaged 25 homes, authorities said Friday. Interior Minister Carlos Malaver said ...
- New York: Guard Explosive Ordnance Disposal Soldiers from Four States Unite for Training
August 15, 2025
CAMP DAWSON AIR FORCE RESERVE STATION, W.Va. – Members of the New York Army National Guard’s 501st Ordnance Battalion, an explosive ordnance disposal, or EOD, headquarters, recently ran a training ...
- Pakistan: Six police officers killed, 8 injured in multiple attacks on police checkpoints in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
August 15, 2025
At least six police officials were martyred and another eight were left injured as militants attacked police checkpoints and patrols across seven districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, ...
- UK continues support for mine clearance in Syria
August 15, 2025
The UK has stressed its continued support for efforts to clear Syrian territory of mines. The British envoy for Syria, Ann Snow, warned in a post on X platform that ...
- UN Syria Commission finds March coastal violence was widespread and systematic
August 14, 2025
GENEVA – The UN Syria Commission of Inquiry today published a report on the wave of violence that engulfed coastal and western central Syria from January, finding that acts that ...
- Burkina Faso: WFP suspends flights to Solle after explosion
August 13, 2025
The U.N. World Food Programme said on Wednesday it had suspended flights to the northwestern Burkina Faso town of Solle after an explosion near a helicopter it chartered injured a ...
- Fort Leonard Wood EOD Soldiers train with local law enforcement agencies
August 13, 2025
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Fort Leonard Wood Soldiers with the 763rd Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) trained with local law enforcement professionals Aug. 5 to hone their skills and share ...
- Explosive Detection Canines in the Field: A Multi-Site Black Box Validation Study
August 13, 2025
In 2009, the National Research Council called upon the forensic science community to standardize the best practices and guidelines in the collection and analysis of evidence with the goal of ...
- British Columbia: RCMP and Nelson police safely dispose of improvised explosive device
August 13, 2025
A live improvised explosive device (IED) was disposed of in Nelson earlier today after a city youth unwittingly brought it back from a recent visit to Trail. On Wednesday afternoon the ...
- Colombia: Three soldiers killed in attack with explosive-laden drones near Buenaventura city
August 13, 2025
Three soldiers have been killed in a drone attack in south-west Colombia, which authorities have blamed on a dissident rebel group. The devices dropped explosives on members of Colombia’s navy and ...
- Thailand and Cambodia to hold border talks amid troop movements and minefield concerns
August 13, 2025
Thailand’s Special Task Force (STF) has announced that it will hold a series of Regional Border Committee (RBC) meetings with Cambodia this month to discuss ongoing border issues, including mine ...
