The overtures to Washington are part of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's pledge to end Syria's international sanctions.

FILE - A Russian military robotic vehicle detonates a land mine on a mine clearing mission ... of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, July 13, 2022. This photo was taken ...

Ukraine is "severely contaminated" with land mines dropped during the current conflict and the 2014 war in eastern Ukraine, according to a 2023 Human Rights Watch report. The explosives ...

The Biden administration will provide Ukraine with controversial anti-personnel mines in its war against ... Ukraine's defense against Russia's advances in Eastern Ukraine, the official said.

Russia said Monday it captured an east Ukrainian mining village south of Pokrovsk, home to one of Ukraine's most important coal mines and where Russian troops have reached the outskirts.

TERNIVKA, Ukraine — It's still dark when the busload of miners arrives for the morning shift at this small city in eastern ... cold dawn as they walk to the mine, owned by DTEK, Ukraine's ...

NPR correspondent Brian Mann is reporting near Pokrovsk, one of the fiercest areas of fighting in eastern Ukraine where Russian soldiers are trying to capture a key transportation and coal-mining ...