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On 23 January, Afghanistan claimed that "terrorists" (Afghan resistance forces) were being deployed by Pakistan to Khyber pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in order to conduct attacks inside Afghanistan. [89] Also, on 23 January, six insurgents attempting to infiltrate the border were killed by Pakistani forces in Zhob District. [90]
The conflict erupted at the Kurram district bordering Khost province of Afghanistan.The conflict reportedly broke out when Taliban forces attempted to construct a security outpost on the Afghan side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border barrier, prompting Pakistani troops to open fire to force the other side to stop the activity.
Danish Demining Group (DDG) was established in 1997 and today functions as a humanitarian mine action unit within the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), hence benefiting from synergies in cooperation. As of August 2012, DDG is operating with clearance of mines and explosive remnants of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia (including Somaliland ...
Three Afghan civilians were killed in a border clash between Pakistan and Afghanistan security forces, a spokesman for the Taliban administration in Kabul said on Tuesday. The clashes took place ...
Afghanistan has no local ownership requirements and its Constitution does not allow for nationalization. The 20% corporate tax rate was the lowest in the region. Afghanistan's mining industry was at a primitive artisanal stage of development; the operations were all low-scale and output was supplied to local and regional markets. The government ...
HALO's first programme began operations in Afghanistan, clearing landmines left by the departing Soviet military. [5] The next major programme to open, in 1991, was in Cambodia. [6] HALO attracted global coverage in January 1997 when Diana Princess of Wales visited a minefield being cleared by HALO employees in Huambo, Angola. [7]
The U.N. atomic watchdog says its monitors at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant reported seeing anti-personnel mines around the site as Ukraine's military pursues a ...
Two land mines exploded early Wednesday along the Lebanon-Syria border wounding three Syrians trying to illegally cross into Lebanon, the Lebanese army said in a statement Wednesday. The army said ...