Ukraine looks to withdraw from a major international treaty on anti-personnel landmines to bolster its defense on the battlefield, where its troops are trying to hold off Russia's intensifying ...

Finland's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to withdraw from an international treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing the threat posed by Russia. Finnish lawmakers voted 157-18 in ...

PARIS — The U.S. activist Jody Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for leading the global campaign to ban anti-personnel mines. That same year, the signing of the Ottawa Treaty — now ...

Lloyd Axworthy, Canada's then-foreign minister, signs the Global Ban on Landmines in 1997. Now, those who forged the agreement — which has come to be known as the Ottawa Treaty — are lamenting how ...

Finland is leaving the Ottawa Treaty, which bans anti- personnel land mines, becoming the fifth European country to do so. The Finnish Parliament approved this decision on Thursday by a vote of 157 in ...

A Dutch soldier lassos a land mine before removing it from the open road during exercise Allied Spirit at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Jan. 15, 2015. (U.S. Army Spc.

Calls are growing for the UK to withdraw from the treaty banning the use of landmines. Nations in eastern Europe, including Poland and Finland, have signalled they will leave the 1997 Ottawa Treaty so ...

OTTAWA — An expert who has disposed of bombs in some of the world's most dangerous places says European governments pinning their security hopes on landmines are turning to an ineffective tool that ...