Landmines

Collateral damage: How India-Pakistan friction following surgical strike affected this village near the LoC

The Tilawari village is located some eight kilometres southeast of Uri town where a deadly attack last month left 19 Army soldiers dead.

Forest fires trigger over 24 landmine blasts along LoC in Poonch

Raging forest fires have triggered over two dozen landmines along the line of control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.

Jharkhand: CRPF jawans among five injured in blasts set off by Maoists

Maoists also fired on a CRPF patrol near Tulbul village in the area injuring a personnel in a brief encounter, the CRPF official said.

Prince Harry returns from Angola charity trip

Harry was following in the footsteps of Diana, who visited minefields in Angola in 1997 and drew global attention to the charity's efforts to clear them.

From LoC with fear: interview with an ordinary soldier

Ordinary soldiers along the Line of Control don't care too much about the intricacies of the relationship between the two nations and aren't unused to spurts of violence.

Syria landmines killing, maiming civilians

Nearly two dozen Syrians, many of them children, are known to have been killed or maimed by Soviet-made mines in border crossing areas.

Turkey land mine clearance plan turns bleak amidst Syria war

Starting in the 1950s, Turkish forces planted more than 600,000 US-made "toe poppers" — mines designed to maim, not kill — and other land mines along much of its border with Syria.