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Counter-IED Report Newsletter

17 February 2026 | Issue 373 |  www.counteriedreport.com

LATEST NEWS

Pakistan: Militants kill 11 security personnel, one child near Afghan border

 

UK: Man arrested after ‘significant number of illegal weapons’ found in house in Abergwynfi

 

Kenya: Capacity consultations to strengthen Eastern Africa’s response to terrorist use of IEDs

 

Pakistan: At least 2 killed, 17 injured in explosion near police station in Bannu

 

India: NSG conducts counter-IED training for J&K Police

 

Afghanistan: The hidden explosive threat

 

Nigeria: 11 suspected bandits killed in Zamfara in IED blast

 

Ukraine: Car explosion in Odesa Injures one person

 

India: Deadly Bhubaneswar rooftop blast caught on camera

 

Thailand: Reports of 6 newly laid mines in Trat province

 

U.S. military completes transfer of 5,700 IS detainees from Syria to Iraq

 

Israel: Over 200 arrested, guns, and explosives confiscated in major Arab crime crackdown

Pakistan: Frontier Works Organisation worker killed, army officer injured in Diamer IED attack

 

Colorado: Pueblo police officers injured in explosion during evidence collection at bomb range

 

Texas: Paris police investigating explosion from apparent IED

 

Niger: Roadside bomb kills civilians near Baroua in Diffa region

 

Thailand: Thai soldier loses right ankle in landmine blast

 

Pennsylvania: Arrest warrant unsealed in alleged bomb making case

 

Ukraine: State Emergency Service destroyed Russian Kh-101 missile warhead

 

Thailand: Road-culvert bomb injures three in Narathiwat

 

US Military warns EOD techs against uploading ‘highly sensitive’ bomb disposal data into generative AI systems

 

UK: Man who booby-trapped Barnsley drug den jailed

 

British Columbia: Man sentenced after police seize ‘arsenal of ruinously destructive potential’

 

Germany: A 500-Pound World War Ii bomb defused in Hamburg

 

Kenya: Cow killed after stepping on IED in Kiunga

Italy: Masked armed robbers blow up cash transporter

 

Nigeria: Army discovers IEDs in Abia forest

 

Thailand: Anti-govt banners, explosives found in Narathiwat

 

Tennessee: Man arrested after IED recovered from dumpster

 

Cambodia: US provides US$4mil for demining

 

Nigeria: 4 soldiers killed in suspected ISWAP attack in Borno

 

Ukraine: Demining Program Clears 1340 Hectares of Agricultural Land in January 2026

 

Nigeria: Police, Military dismantle IED planted by bandits

 

Iraq: ISIS strikes, suicide bombings, and arrests

 

North Carolina: Man charged after using ‘IED’ multiple times

 

Afghanistan: Child killed, another child and their mother injured in explosion in Nangarhar

 

UK: Man charged after Coventry homes evacuated

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