Land mines

Sun Theary, a member of an explosive ordnance disposal team, picks-up a 60mm mortar round in Siem Reap, Cambodia on Thursday, July 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)

Donor fatigue guts demining in Asia, as active conflicts draw away funding

Land mines and unexploded bombs from conflicts of the last century still plague parts of Southeast Asia, claiming lives and limbs each year.

The bodies of Ryan Al-Fanikh, left, and Aya Al-Fanikh, whom relatives said were killed by an explosion caused by war remnants while they were playing in the village of Abu Habbah in eastern Idlib countryside, are carried during their funeral in Abu Habbah, Syria, Thursday, May 21, 2026. Another child was also killed and four others wounded.(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

A grieving father buries his 6-year-old after a land mine kills 3 children in Syria’s Idlib

Emadeldein Babiker, 17, who was injured in an explosion caused by unexploded ordnance, sits on a bed at Al Nao Hospital in Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Sudan’s war leaves Khartoum with unexploded mines and other weapons

Armoured vehicles are parked at a section of Poland - Belarus border near the Polowce-Pieszczatka, Poland, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafal Niedzielski, File)

Poland withdraws from treaty banning antipersonnel mines and will use them to defend against Russia

FILE- Abbot Phut Analayo, right, and other monks and residents who fled clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers, take shelter in Surin province, Thailand, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Land mine explosion that wounded Chinese man on Cambodia-Thailand border provokes concerns

As Poland exits landmines convention, it looks to its eastern borders

Poland on Friday officially exited the international convention banning the use of land mines, meaning it could potentially deploy mines to defend its eastern borders from Russian threats. Polish-manufactured unmanned vehicles, known as Bluszcz, are capable of laying anti-tank mines within 48 hours of deployment. Poland borders Ukraine and Belarus in its east and fears it might be a next target for Russia if Moscow decides to attack a NATO territory. (AP Video by Rafal Niedzielski)

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Residents take shelter as fighting erupts between Thai and Cambodian forces in disputed border area

Thailand and Cambodia recall ambassadors as border dispute flares, AP explains

Landmines and other unexploded remnants of war continue to pose deadly threat across Syria

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In this photo released by the Royal Thai Army, a Thai officer inspects a landmine near the Thai-Cambodia border in Sisaket province, Thailand, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (Royal Thai Army via AP)

Thailand demands apology from Cambodia for land mine explosion that injured soldiers

In this photo released by Royal Thai Army, two Thai soldiers injured by a landmine during a patrol near the Thai-Cambodia border are treated as they are to be transferred to a hospital in Sisaket province, Thailand, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (Royal Thai Army via AP)

Thailand threatens to suspend truce with Cambodia after a land mine injures troops

A bust of Buddha among remains charred inside a bombed building in O'Smach, Oddar Meanchey in Cambodia, on Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)

Thailand again accuses Cambodia of planting land mines as 3 soldiers are hurt by blast along border

This photo released by the Royal Thai Army, shows an injured Thai soldier who stepped on a land mine being airlifted to a hospital in Ubon Ratchathani province, Thailand, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (The Royal Thai Army via AP)

Thailand and Cambodia recall ambassadors as border dispute flares

Britain's Prince Harry walks through a minefield during a visit to see the work of landmine clearance charity of the Halo Trust, in Cuito Cuanavale, Cuando province, southern Angola, Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (Ampe Pedro/The Halo Trust via AP)

Prince Harry retraces Diana’s footsteps by walking through a land mine field in Angola for charity

A mine detection rat with the humanitarian demining organization APOPO works in a landmine field in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)

Photos of the giant rats leading land mine detection efforts in Cambodia

Diana, Princess of Wales, left, uses a remote switch to trigger the detonation of some explosive ordinance dug up by mine sweepers in Huambo, central Angola, Jan. 15, 1997. (AP Photo/Giovanni Diffidenti, File)

Prince Harry is in Angola to raise awareness for land mine clearing, repeating Diana’s 1997 trip

A notice warning about land mines is attached to a tree as a Ukrainian specialized team searches for mines in a field in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, June 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Finland’s lawmakers vote to leave land mine treaty as Nordic country boosts defenses against Russia

Suleiman Khalil, 21, who lost his leg in a landmine explosion while harvesting olives with his friends in a field, is reflected in a mirror at his home in the village of Qaminas, east of Idlib, Syria, Wednesday April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Photos: Land mines still claim lives in post-Assad Syria

Suleiman Khalil, 21, who lost his leg in a landmine explosion while harvesting olives with his friends in a field, is reflected in a mirror at his home in the village of Qaminas, east of Idlib, Syria, Wednesday April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

‘I thought I’d died.’ How land mines are continuing to claim lives in post-Assad Syria

Kumarakulasingham Dinojan, 15, right, who lost his left hand below his wrist and has damaged fingers in his right hand from a mine blast six years ago, spends time with his brother Vilvaraj Jethurshan, 16, left, outside their house in Mankindy, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka’s target to be free of land mines by 2028 is under threat as US reviews aid

Poland and Baltic states recommend leaving antipersonnel land mine treaty, citing threat from Russia

In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade press service, servicemen of the 24th Mechanised Brigade improve their tactical skills at the training field in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukrainian 24th Mechanised Brigade via AP)

US will send Ukraine $725 million more in counter-drone systems, anti-personnel land mines

A Cambodian Mine Action Center, CMAC, staff member checks a mine detector at a minefield in Preytotoeung village, Battambang province, Cambodia, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

The UN chief and pope call for nations to end the use of antipersonnel land mines

FILE - A Russian military robotic vehicle detonates a land mine on a mine clearing mission to defuse mines along the high voltage line in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, July 13, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo, File)

The US is sending antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine. Here’s what it means

This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)

Double land mine blasts kill one person and wound at least 18 in Pakistan’s southwest

This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)

An old land mine found by children near an Afghanistan village explodes, killing 9

FILE - Exterior view of the Peace Palace housing the U.N.'s International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Jan. 30, 2023. Azerbaijan appealed Tuesday Jan. 31, 2023, to the United Nations' highest court to urgently order Armenia to stop the laying of land mines and booby traps on Azerbaijani territory and disclose the location of such explosives that already have been placed, in the latest legal battle focused on the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Azerbaijan to UN court: Armenia must stop laying land mines

This photo released by the Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC), shows Ukraine deminers at Mine Action Technical Institute in the central province, Cambodia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Fifteen Ukrainian deminers are being trained by experts in Cambodia who are among the world's best because of experience from clearing the leftovers of nearly three decades of war. (Cambodia Mine Action Center via AP)

Cambodian experts begin training Ukrainian deminers

UN: Mines helped to cause 159 casualties in Yemeni city

A woman passes with a bicycle as a local resident works to clean the debris from a damaged house after Russian shelling in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Russia withdrawing, Ukrainian official fears ‘city of death’

FILE - A Cambodian de-mining expert works at a clearance site of land mines near the Cambodia-Thailand border, in Pailin province, once a Khmer Rouge stronghold in northwestern Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has agreed to send deminers to help train Ukrainians in clearing land mines planted by Russian forces during their invasion, the Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia to send deminers to help train Ukrainians

Ukrainian territorial defence deminers walk past a body of a local man who was killed after an explosion of a Russian mine near Hrakove village, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Ukrainian deminers remove deadly threats to civilians

FILE - Britain's Diana, Princess of Wales, is pictured during an evening reception given by the West German President Richard von Weizsacker in honour of the British Royal guests in the Godesberg Redoute in Bonn, Germany Monday, Nov. 2, 1987. Above all, there was shock. That’s the word people use over and over again when they remember Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash 25 years ago this week. The woman the world watched grow from a shy teenage nursery school teacher into a glamorous celebrity who comforted AIDS patients and campaigned for landmine removal couldn’t be dead at the age of 36, could she? (AP Photo/Herman Knippertz, File)

Diana’s death stunned the world — and changed the royals

15 soldiers killed by roadside bombs in north Burkina Faso

FILE - Members of the New People's Army communist rebels with face painted to conceal their identities, march with their firearms before a news conference held at their guerrilla encampment tucked in the harsh wilderness of the Sierra Madre mountains southeast of Manila, Philippines, Nov. 23, 2016. A land mine set by suspected New People's Army wounded seven soldiers in the central Philippines on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, in one of the insurgents’ first known attacks since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office last week. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Rebel land mine wounds 7 soldiers in central Philippines

FILE - An international sign warning about mines hangs beside a minefield at Bagram Air Base on, March 22, 2002. The White House announced Tuesday a new policy curtailing the use of anti-personnel land mines by the U.S. military, reversing a more permissive stance that was enacted by former President Donald Trump. Under the policy, such explosives will still be allowed to defend South Korea against a potential attack by North Korea, but otherwise they will be banned. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)

Most land mine use by US military banned, except for Korea

Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Roth, the longtime leader of Human Rights Watch announced Tuesday, April 26, 2022, that he will step down this summer as executive director. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Head of Human Rights Watch to resign after nearly 3 decades

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy examines the site of a recent battle, in Bucha close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Apr. 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Anti tank mines are displayed on a bridge in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Russia urged to stop using land mines in its war in Ukraine

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