European countries bordering Russia are taking steps to leave a key land mine treaty. Land mines have seen widespread and aggressive use in the Ukraine war. NGOs are concerned about the impact of ...

World-renowned for their experience with clearing land mines after the Balkan wars of the 1990s, a team of demining experts from Bosnia are in Ukraine helping to train sappers. Some 35,000 square ...

Sri Lanka's target to be free of land mines by 2028 is under threat as US reviews aid Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri ...

HELSINKI, April 4 (Reuters) - Finnish technology conglomerate Insta said on Friday it is interested in producing anti-personnel land mines in Finland once the Finnish government leaves the ...

A new analysis by the National Parks Conservation Association reveals more than 1,300 mine claims exist within the boundaries ...

There were people who were injured or killed trying to open mines and use the explosives for fishing. Vidya Abhayagunawardena, coordinator of the Sri Lanka Campaign to Ban Land Mines, said it’s ...

A three-decade global effort to end the use of land mines appears to be over. Finland and other European countries are leaving the Ottawa Convention, the treaty banning anti-personnel mines ...

Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decadeslong separatist war and later took to clearing the land mines ...