“It will take ages to clear them all.” Land mines are seen in a field during a ministry of defence operation to clear and detonate explosives left by the Syrian army during the war, in agricultural ...

This took a sharp spike in 2021, after Afghanistan ... in field conditions and has now been published in BMJ Injury Prevention (leads to third party site). Paul Heslop, Senior Mine Action Adviser ...

Former Taliban fighters are tracking down their own bombs and helping to remove them from Afghanistan ... square meters of Afghan land is still contaminated by mines and improvised explosive ...

The Protection Cluster in Afghanistan is composed of the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Area of Responsibility (AoR), the Child Protection (CP) AoR, the Mine Action (MA) AoR and the Housing, Land, and ...

KABUL, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Three children lost their lives and three others sustained injuries as a landmine left over from past wars went off in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on ...

Land mines and other explosive remnants of war ... Most of the victims were in Afghanistan, Syria, Myanmar, Mali and Ukraine, according to Handicap International, an aid organization working ...