Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday said that two oil tankers and a tugboat caught fire in separate incidents in the Strait of Hormuz after vessels attempted to use what it called an unauthorized route.
A total of 4,898.3 hectares of land were cleared of mines in Azerbaijan’s liberated territories in October, according to the report by Azerbaijan’s National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) on humanitarian demining operations.
Speaking from the UN podium, Shahriyar Hajiyev outlined the scale of the landmine problem in Azerbaijan and called on the international community to assist in addressing it.
Specific locations that require demining have been identified in various districts of the territories liberated by Azerbaijan.
Chairman of the Board of the Mine Action Agency of Azerbaijan (ANAMA) Vugar Suleymanov met with Dmytro Shlapachenko, the newly appointed United Nations Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan.
A tanker has struck a mine in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz, causing an explosion and a fire in the engine room, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said.
The vessel reportedly hit a naval mine, causing a large fire
A supertanker carrying oil has struck a mine in the Strait of Hormuz, the ISNA news agency reported, citing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The number of people killed or injured by landmines in Azerbaijan since the end of the 2020 war has reached 443 following an explosion in the Jabrayil district that severely maimed a father and his son, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.
According to ANAMA, nearly 1,400 hectares of territory across 13 districts of Azerbaijan were cleared of mines and unexploded ordnance over the past week
The driver was unharmed, an investigation is underway
Over the past week, ANAMA specialists cleared more than 1,840 hectares of mined land in Azerbaijan's liberated territories and neutralized over a thousand pieces of ordnance.
More than 40,000 former internally displaced people have returned to their hometowns over the past six years, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Elnur Mammadov said.
On Thursday, 25 families returning to their native village of Shukurbayli in the Jabrayil district were handed the keys to their new homes.
A landmine explosion occurred during demining operations in Azerbaijan’s Khojaly District. Еhe incident took place in the village …
A total of 438 people have become victims of mines and other explosive ordnance in Azerbaijan, 73 of whom lost their lives, since the end of the Second Karabakh War, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) Vugar Suleymanov said during a high-level roundtable on "Advantages and Challenges of AI-integration to the Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems".
A stable and secure peace is impossible without eliminating the mine threat, Representative of the President of Azerbaijan on special assignments Elchin Amirbayov said at the 4th International Mine Action Conference themed “Humanitarian Demining for Urban Recovery: Setting Standards of Excellence for Safe Settlements.”
A total of 69,206 hectares of land were cleared of mines and unexploded ordnance in 2025, marking the highest annual result for Azerbaijan, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) Samir Poladov said.
The 4th International Mine Action Conference on "Humanitarian Demining for Urban Recovery: Setting Standards of Excellence for Safe Settlements" is being held jointly organized by the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) and the UN Office in Azerbaijan.
A total of 2,048.7 hectares of territory were cleared of mines and UXOs in Azerbaijan on August 24-31, the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) said.
