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Poland has announced that they will be withdrawing on 20 February from the Ottawa Convention on banning the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines, Polish Radio reported on 16 February. Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska, deputy head of the parliamentary National Defence Committee, is reported to have said that Ukraine’s
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At least 11 people in Nigeria have died after an IED that they were transporting to carry out an attack, detonated. The incident occurred near Babbar Doka village in the northwestern Zamfara state, "amid a resurgence of banditry and the increasing use of explosives against security forces in the
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At least one person was killed and three others, including an army official, were injured when their vehicle was struck by an IED in northern Pakistan on Thursday 12 February. A vehicle belonging to the military engineering and construction organisation, the Frontier Works Organization, was hit by an IED in
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At least four civilians, including two children, were killed when a landmine left over from the war exploded in eastern Syria on Tuesday 10 February. Eight others were injured. According to Syria's Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management, the landmine struck a vehicle in the al-Kharata area of
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Indian security forces have announced the recovery of a cache of arms, explosives and ammunition across two sites in Tengnoupal, Manipur state, within 24 hours. A police bulletin from Manipur police issued on Monday morning stated that security forces had recovered the large quantity of military equipment from Molnom–Molnoi
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The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority reported on Wednesday 4 February that at least 87 people were killed and 333 others injured due to landmine and explosive remnants blasts in 2025 across the country. In a video message posted on X, spokesperson Hafiz Mohammad Yusuf Hammad said that a total
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Indian security forces in the far eastern state of Manipur recovered a cache of arms and explosives on Tuesday 3 February, according to local police via Northeast News. The recoveries were made from areas close to the Myanmar border, near Bongmol and SL Zougam villages in Tengnoupal district. 18 improvised
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The Saudi project for humanitarian landmine clearance in Yemen, Project Masam, has announced they cleared a total of 7,554 explosive items during January 2026. Cleared in January included 52 anti-personnel mines, 369 anti-tank mines, 7,117 items of unexploded ordnance and 16 improvised explosive devices. According to Project Masam,
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A large cache of explosives was discovered on 31 January during a joint anti-insurgent operation between the Narayanpur Police and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in the forests in Abujhmad, Chhattisgarh, India. Officials said that the site was being used by Maoist Naxalite insurgents to store supplies for future attacks.
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Police in London, Ontario, Canada, have laid additional charges on four men during an investigation after the discovery of firearms and dangerous chemicals - allegedly capable of making explosives - earlier this week at a residence in the city's northwest end. The London Police Service said on Tuesday
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At least three Nigerien soldiers were killed and 10 others injured on Sunday 25 January after an army patrol vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Bartchawal, Tillabéri Region, about 20 kilometres from the capital, Niamey. It has been reported that the incident occurred late in the day along the
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A 31-year-old man has been arrested and charged on two counts following an investigation into an incident at an Indigenous rights rally involving a suspecting improvised explosive device in Perth, Australia, on Wednesday 26 January. According to a statement from the Western Australia Police Force, the man, who was attending