A Mexican Navy infantryman died, and two others sustained serious injuries while providing security to a group of mothers who were searching rural areas for cartel mass graves.
Alexander Khinshtein, governor of Russia’s Kursk region, said in a televised interview on Tuesday that North Korean troops are assisting with mine-clearing efforts along the border with Ukraine.
A North Korean man crossed the forbidding DMZ on Thursday and made it to South Korea with help from the South Korean military.
Four Eastern European countries say they wish to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty on landmines, citing “Russia’s aggression” and “dire security challenges” on NATO’s “vulnerable eastern flank”.
Las organizaciones terroristas que operan con impunidad en el estado fronterizo mexicano de Tamaulipas siguen utilizando narco-minas para enfrentar a sus rivales, a pesar de que ya han matado a varias víctimas inocentes con ellas, incluido un ciudadano estadounidense.
Un hombre de Texas y uno de los amigos con los que viajaba en México murieron cuando su vehículo explotó después de pasar sobre una mina terrestre dejada por el crimen organizado. La explosión fatal se produce después de que Breitbart Texas informara sobre explosiones anteriores en las que inocentes resultaron heridos, lo que obligó al gobierno de México a confirmar el problema y enviar una serie de avisos advirtiendo a la gente de Tamaulipas sobre el uso de minas terrestres por parte de los carteles que se disputan la región.
After trying to hide information, the government of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas was forced to issue a series of warnings about the widespread use of cartel land mines and explosive devices in the northern part of the state. The warnings followed initial reporting by Breitbart Texas of a government vehicle striking a makeshift landmine near the state’s border with the U.S.
Washington’s decision to give AP mines to Ukraine is biggest blow yet to a landmark anti-mine treaty, its signatories said during a meeting.
Officials with the South Korean military confirmed on Monday that communist North Korea had littered roads between North and South Korea with landmines and begun taking down streetlights installed on them.
A group of cartel gunmen used land mines and weaponized drones in a series of ambush-style attacks where they killed at least four Mexican Army soldiers and injured several others. The gunmen managed to escape.
The top security official in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas confirmed that drug cartels have been planting land mines along rural roads in the northern part of the state, confirming a prior news report from Breitbart Texas.
Residents of the Kherson region in Ukraine find themselves dealing with new hardships thanks to the breach of the Kakhovka Dam on Tuesday, including flooded homes, drowning, disease, and even landmines dislodged by floodwater from the Dnipro River.
Austria would be the first Western country to officially play an active military role in the Ukraine war if the President gets his way.
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) warned on Sunday that roughly 70 percent of the land mines, improvised explosive devices, and other hazards created during the Islamic State’s occupation of Iraq remain undiscovered. UNMAS said these lurking hazards were a major impediment to displaced Iraqis returning to their homes.
Security analysts are worried about Venezuelan guns, missiles, and mines falling into the hands of terrorists and criminals now that socialist strongman Nicolas Maduro has begun arming his militant supporters to crush dissent.
The Associated Press reports that annual military exercises with South Korea have been halted–indefinitely–due to rising tensions on the DMZ and threats of war from Pyongyang. Is this a concession to North Korea’s threats, a bid to reduce tensions on the peninsula, or is it necessary to give American and South Korean units a chance to prepare for possible combat?
The government of Seoul is promising “pitiless penalty” and “a severe retaliation” against North Korea for the serious injury of two South Korean soldiers at the hands of what appear to be North Korean landmines, which the South Korean government believes were planted by North Koreans infiltrating the other side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
It is one of these stories that can be told in a single sentence: Cambodia is training an elite squad of giant rats imported from Africa to detect landmines.
Dogs, bees, rats, and even dolphins and sea lions have been used to help sniff out explosives throughout most of the world. Recently, elephants have been added to that list as researchers in South Africa have teamed up with the U.S. Army to train these massive yet gentle mammals help them detect TNT; a common explosive material found in land mines.
