President Barack Obama ordered up a review of the U.S. policy and eventually prohibited the military from using any land ...

Poland and the Baltic states have said they are planning to leave the Ottawa Convention, dealing a blow to the international ...

The move is one of several planned for an executive order Trump could sign as soon as Wednesday after he told Congress last ...

Poland and the three Baltic nations say they want to withdraw from an international convention that bans antipersonnel land mines due to the growing threat from Russia to front-line NATO states ...

The mines — which the group said "indiscriminately kill and maim" — are not used by the Ukrainian military and have reportedly been rigged to self-destruct if not activated over a period of time.

From 1998 to mid-2002, over 9.7 million square meters of land were cleared under ... and three in the U.S.). To date, mines have killed one and wounded six U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan.

British Forces Network reports how a specialist de-mining team is clearing and exploding a hoard of land mines from the Falkland Islands landscape – out of more than 30,000 laid the Argentine ...

Last May, two Ecuadorian soldiers were wounded during an armed attack on a military installation located near the border area. More than 750 handmade antipersonnel mines were found in the ...

including a possible exit from a landmark anti-mines treaty and large-scale military trainings for men. Poland, a staunch Ukraine ally, has been arming itself heavily as it eyes warily ...

with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. In many cases, their owners simply walked away ...

Poland and the three Baltic nations say they want to withdraw from an international convention that bans antipersonnel land mines due to the growing threat from Russia to front-line NATO states.

Poland and the Baltic states have said they are planning to leave the Ottawa Convention, dealing a blow to the international treaty banning antipersonnel land mines ...