Poland will use anti-personnel as well as anti-tank landmines to defend its eastern border against the growing threat from ...

Poland is quitting the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines and finalizing a new mine-laying system that will let it mine its eastern border within 48 hours, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said ...

Poland withdraws from the anti-personnel mine treaty to bolster defense against Russia, planning to produce these controversial weapons domestically.

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 ...

They are considered one of the world’s most dangerous, and indiscriminate, weapons. Yet five European countries have turned their backs on an international treaty on the use of landmines, citing the ...