Russia's full-scale invasion may have turned Ukraine into the world's largest minefield. As of March 2025, Ukraine’s ...

The withdrawal of five European countries from a longstanding and effective international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel ...

Since mines from World War II are still being discovered underground, some predict that it will take Ukraine nearly a century to complete demining. However, those involved in humanitarian demining ...

When a tanker loaded with Russian oil slows in a shipping channel, a waiting diver swims from a mini-submarine and attaches a ...

Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his everlasting good fortune, he was not involved in the most intense fighting.

Mines have been used since the American Civil War. They were used heavily during World War II, and American forces routinely employed them during the Korean and Vietnam wars.

The late Leo Treadway was a member of the Naval Construction Battalion of World War II, nicknamed Sea Bees. He told stories of a tank-like vehicle called a Dragon that destroyed land mines in the path ...

Ukraine has joined other countries bordering Russia in signalling that it will withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines, in the face of what they say are growing ...

Ronin, a specially trained rat deployed to Cambodia, has helped locate more than 100 anti-personnel landmines littered around the country.

Millions of mines, cluster bombs and unexploded ordnance still litter the Cambodian countryside, a direct result of decades of conflict stemming from the Vietnam War.

Ukraine has become the most mine-contaminated country since World War II, casting a shadow over global food security, according to a study by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in London ...

Bombs, land mines, ammunition — the deadly legacy of war 06/04/2025 As the German city of Cologne evacuated some 20,000 people to defuse three World War II bombs, DW looks at the problem of ...