Browsing: landmines

POTOMKYNE —  A grassy lane rutted with tire tracks leads to Volodymyr Zaiets’ farm in southern Ukraine. He is careful,…

washington —  The U.S. is committed to removing landmines and other explosive remnants of the war in Vietnam throughout Southeast…

Farah al-Ghazali did not hesitate: Despite all the dangers, despite the fears of her family and possible criticism from her…

Krasnohorivka, Ukraine CNN  —  In the town of Krasnohorivka, grim Soviet-era apartment buildings stand nearly but not quite empty, with…

Washington —  Human rights researchers say they’ve documented “numerous cases” in which Ukrainian forces fired banned anti-personnel mines at Russian…

Russia and Myanmar are the only two states to have used anti-personnel mines this year, according to the latest annual…

Hopefully Yemen is past the worst of the violence. The ceasefire negotiated in the spring is repeatedly broken, but overall…

CHIFRA, ETHIOPIA —  The battles between Ethiopian government-aligned troops and Tigrayan forces may have stopped, but herders in western Afar…

The US military will “no longer develop, manufacture or purchase anti-personnel mines” or export them, the White House in Washington…

DAKAR, SENEGAL —  Raiders in Mali killed at least 20 civilians in attacks on villages near the northern town of…