Demining

The Gaza Strip is filled with more war debris and rubble than Ukraine, the head of UN demining operations for the narrow Palestinian territory said Wednesday.

Internet users were fascinated with the unique villa, and many said that they would love an opportunity to stay in it.

The United States announced Tuesday that it would provide $89 million to Ukraine for removing land mines put in place by Russian forces.

Russia's military on Thursday said it had completely demined the ancient site of Palmyra in Syria after it was recaptured by government forces from ISIS fighters last month.

Russian army sappers in bulky protective suits slowly sweep their mine detectors through the ancient ruins of the Syrian world heritage site of Palmyra following its recapture from jihadists.

Half a world from home, Cambodian experts toil under a beating sun to demine the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, using skills they honed to help rid their own country of landmines.

Xiong Demin could not have foreseen that the mine he worked at for 32 years would leave his home village poisoned and hundreds of residents, including himself and his wife, stricken with cancer.

An Afghan official says a police chief and two other officers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded while they were on a demining mission in the southern Gazni province.

Unknown gunmen on Tuesday briefly seized more than 60 Afghan workers clearing Soviet-era anti-tank mines in western Herat province, the largest mass kidnapping undertaken in an economically important area now beset by security problems.

A new controversy has broken out in the Kashmir valley where the residents of a village in north Kashmir are accusing the Army of bulldozing a graveyard to make way for a camp. The Army has denied this saying they were just demining the area.

The Gaza Strip is filled with more war debris and rubble than Ukraine, the head of UN demining operations for the narrow Palestinian territory said Wednesday.

Internet users were fascinated with the unique villa, and many said that they would love an opportunity to stay in it.

The United States announced Tuesday that it would provide $89 million to Ukraine for removing land mines put in place by Russian forces.

Russia's military on Thursday said it had completely demined the ancient site of Palmyra in Syria after it was recaptured by government forces from ISIS fighters last month.

Russian army sappers in bulky protective suits slowly sweep their mine detectors through the ancient ruins of the Syrian world heritage site of Palmyra following its recapture from jihadists.

Half a world from home, Cambodian experts toil under a beating sun to demine the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, using skills they honed to help rid their own country of landmines.

Xiong Demin could not have foreseen that the mine he worked at for 32 years would leave his home village poisoned and hundreds of residents, including himself and his wife, stricken with cancer.

An Afghan official says a police chief and two other officers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded while they were on a demining mission in the southern Gazni province.

Unknown gunmen on Tuesday briefly seized more than 60 Afghan workers clearing Soviet-era anti-tank mines in western Herat province, the largest mass kidnapping undertaken in an economically important area now beset by security problems.

A new controversy has broken out in the Kashmir valley where the residents of a village in north Kashmir are accusing the Army of bulldozing a graveyard to make way for a camp. The Army has denied this saying they were just demining the area.