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Three children were killed and two others have been injured when a landmine, reportedly planted by the US occupation forces, exploded in Tal Tamer town in northern Syria. The incident occurred in the vicinity of the US base in Qasrak Read More …
A six-month U.N. brokered truce in Yemen ended in October 2022, with no agreement to extend it or bring an end to the eight years of civil war. Even though the conflict may escalate at any time, U.N. officials warn Read More …
A deadly land mine explosion in Syria killed at least six people on Sunday, according to state media. News agency SANA said the explosion hit civilians who were foraging for truffles in the countryside, and blamed the incident on a Read More …
For the first time in more than eight years of war, there are real and concrete signs of peace. But as a Sky News team has discovered on the ground, this is a country broken by thousands of bombs, mines Read More …
A Saudi-Omani delegation is planning to travel to Yemen’s capital Sana’a next week to hash out a permanent ceasefire deal with Houthi officials and end the country’s eight-year-old conflict, two sources involved in the talks said. If an agreement is Read More …
An IED allegedly planted by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Erbil province damaged a vehicle carrying three villagers on Thursday morning, but did not result in any casualties, according to a local official speaking to Kurdistan 24. The Read More …
Sixteen people were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Deraa governorate, Syrian state media reported on Monday. The attack reportedly occurred on a bridge at the Nasib border crossing with Jordan and was carried out against customs officials. Read Read More …
Damascus, SANA- An explosive device went off on Sunday evening in a civilian car in Mezzeh area in Damascus, without causing any casualties. A source at Damascus Police Command told SANA that an explosive device went off in a civilian Read More …
“I only remember the explosion,” Maytham, 16, said from his hospital bed, his pale arms speckled brown by shrapnel. The attack took place earlier this month in the Shiite-majority village of Hazanieh. The force of the blast hurled the teenager Read More …
A child in Yemen was killed or injured by explosives every two days in 2022, new research has found, as the country enters its ninth consecutive year of conflict. Yemen is littered with landmines and unexploded ordinance such as mortars, Read More …
The United Kingdom is sending Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine equipped with armor piercing depleted uranium rounds. Countries like the U.S., U.K., and Russia manufacture ammunition using depleted uranium because the metal is heavy and dense, making it ideal to Read More …
The Israeli government has approved a one-time, temporary order labeling fireworks as explosive devices for a period of nine months. The order was proposed by Labor Minister Yoav Ben Tzur in cooperation with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Read Read More …
In the lead up to the US-led invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, proponents of the war spoke of the Iraqi people as helpless victims of a dictatorial regime. Yet the Iraqi people paid the heaviest price of the Read More …
Israeli security forces killed a man suspected of planting a roadside bomb that injured a man near the occupied West Bank this week, the military said on Wednesday, adding that the suspect’s potential ties to the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah Read More …
The Directorate for Mine Action (DMA) of the Iraqi Ministry of Environment revealed that Basra came first worldwide as the city with the most landmines. Media Director of the DMA, Mustafa Hamid, explained that the southern Iraqi city of Basra Read More …
When U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Adel Amer celebrated what he thought marked the end of two decades of war and isolation under sanctions that had brought Iraq and its people to their knees. But it turned out Read More …
At around 6:00 this morning, an improvised explosive device (IED) placed at the side of the road near the Megiddo junction exploded, seriously injuring Sharaf al-Din, a 21-year-old resident of Salem. The IED was placed along Route 65 and exploded Read More …
Israeli forces on Friday night detained a Palestinian man suspected of planting a makeshift bomb on a bus in a West Bank settlement a night earlier, the military said. In a joint statement with the Shin Bet security agency and Read More …
Palestinian Arab terrorists operating in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip detonated a bomb next to a passing Israeli military bulldozer along the frontier Wednesday afternoon, an IDF spokesperson said. The bomb was set off while the bulldozer was carrying out routine Read More …
An Iraqi security source mentioned on Monday that four civilians were killed and three others were wounded in an armed attack that followed an explosion of an improvised explosive device in Diyala governorate in eastern Iraq. The source elaborated that Read More …