It was an unlucky day in the Burmese calendar, farmer Yar Swe Kyin warned her husband in July, begging him not to go out to check on their crops. That conflict has been turbocharged by the junta's 2021 coup, which birthed dozens of newer "People's Defence Forces" now battling to topple the military. In eastern Kayah state, a short journey …
Kuwait City, Kuwait – The Israeli military has said that it has planted landmines along parts of the Gaza-Israel fence to prevent further infiltrations of the Palestinian armed group Hamas following its attack on southern Israel on October 7. More than three decades after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990-1991 by 100,000 Iraqi soldiers under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, landmines …
The front lines of northwest Syria may be quieter, but death still waits for civilians from the bombs left behind. The Civil Defence’s Muhammad Sami al-Muhammad told Al Jazeera that the organisation now has six teams across northwestern Syria specialised in the removal of unexploded ordnance. “During the past year, the Syrian Civil Defence documented the use of 60 different …
