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: 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 ...
- Guinea-Bissau: Military appoints general as transition president after coup
November 27, 2025
The military in Guinea-Bissau military has appointed a general as the country’s new leader for one year, a day after staging a coup to seize power and arresting the president ...
- Somalia: U.S. special forces join Puntland in major strike on ISIS hideout in Balade Valley
November 27, 2025
US Special Forces and Puntland counter-terrorism units have carried out a coordinated operation targeting an ISIS hideout in Somalia’s Balade Valley. According to security sources on Wednesday, dozens of US troops ...
- UK: Ex-soldier tried to blow up police station and vans with petrol bombs
November 27, 2025
A former soldier endangered a police officer’s life during a bid to “blow up” a police station with petrol bombs, a court has heard. Jamie Taylor, 34, launched three molotov ...
- Pakistan: Three children die in landmine explosion inside home in Bolan
November 27, 2025
Three children were killed and three others injured when a landmine exploded in the Sanni Shoran area of Bolan on Wednesday. Police said the device had been planted inside the ...
- UK: Midlands teen charged with terror offence ‘had explosive substances’
November 27, 2025
A teenage boy has been charged with possession of explosive substances. The 17 year old, from Stafford, was detained following an investigation by Staffordshire Police. He was also charged with two ...
