NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said Tuesday they are abandoning the 1997 Ottawa convention treaty ...

Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland are troubled by signs of increasing aggression from Russia. Read more at ...

The quartet bordering Russia proposed withdrawing from the Ottawa treaty, but add they have no plans to use landmines.

Russians, and to a lesser extent Ukrainians, are deploying anti-personnel mines, despite their prohibition under the Ottawa ...

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have announced they're withdrawing from a landmark ban on military mines. Here's why.

Poland and the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are withdrawing from the Ottawa convention banning ...

Eastern European countries are eyeing an exit of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines so they can place lethal underground bombs along their border to prevent Russia from ...

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), launched in 1992 ... Particular targets were states of the former Soviet Union and the Middle East/North Africa, as well as the United States.

The railway also would have connected northern nickel mines to Soviet factories to the west. But just days after Stalin’s death, in 1953, the project was canceled amid the subsequent “thaw.” ...

The five countries have been concerned about their security since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, ...