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Counter-IED Report Newsletter

6 February 2026 | Issue 372 |  www.counteriedreport.com

LATEST NEWS

Pakistan: At least 24 killed and 101 injured after explosion rips through Islamabad imambargah

 

Cambodia: Japan Promises $665,000 for Cluster Bomb Clearance

 

Cambodia: NPA and CMAC Renew Partnership to Accelerate Mine Clearance

 

India: Kerala police seize large cache of illegal explosives

 

Israel: Police seize guns, explosive device in Negev

 

Thailand: Border standoff eases on K5, but mines and bombs still found daily

 

UNSC members say IS-K in Afghanistan remains serious threat to region, beyond

 

Thailand: More toilet timebombs defused in Pattani

 

India: Mock exercise to tackle chemical disaster conducted in Tarn Taran

 

Kansas: Goodland police make arrest after finding drugs, explosive device in search of home

 

Afghanistan: 87 killed by unexploded ordnance last year

Nigeria: Troops recover weapons, neutralise IEDs in Borno

 

Syria: Security teams clear mines in eastern Aleppo

 

Israel: Man killed in car blast near Haifa

 

Thailand: Bomb expert injured in blast at southern PTT station

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina: More than 47 Million Square Meters in the Tuzla Canton are still at Risk of Mines

 

US military says some forces have been dispatched to Nigeria

 

Israel: Police arrest individual suspected of preparing explosives, planning attack on IDF soldiers

 

Lebanon has decided to join the Mine Ban Treaty

 

Thailand: Blast kills suspected bomb-maker in Yala


Pakistan: The US wants these critical minerals, but militants with American weapons stand in the way

 

DR Congo: Drone attack targets strategic city

 

Bangladesh: Three arrested with 95 crude bombs in Shariatpur

Nigeria: Nine arraigned for deadly attack that killed over 150

 

UK: ‘Suspicious powder’ removed from house in Anfield

 

Pakistan: More than 120 people dead after multiple attacks in Balochistan

 

UN reviews mine clearance efforts in Libya

 

Nigeria: Federal government to disrupt terrorists’ bomb-making supply chains

 

Philippines: Troops recover 13 firearms, IEDs in Camarines Sur



Germany: Bavarian police detonate suspected explosives found in traffic stop

 

Washington: Tennis ball bomb found in donation bin at Mount Vernon church

 

Cambodia Warns of Lingering Cluster Munition Dangers After Blast Injures Workers

 

UK: Two arrested after officers carry out warrant in Farnborough

 

Virginia: Loudoun County Authorities make an arrest in the Leesburg explosion investigation

 

Nigeria: Terrorists use armed drones to attack military base in Borno

 

Mali: Fuel tanker convoy destroyed in attack blamed on extremists

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