2 days ago
In photos: Demining Syria, the ‘most land mine-affected place in the world'
RAQQA, Syria — Mofida Majthou squatted, holding a detonator affixed to the end of a long wire. More than 1,600 feet away, winding past a cinder-block shack and across an expanse of sand and stone, the wire dipped into a hole containing 25 submunitions from cluster bombs, an anti-tank mine, the main charge from an improvised explosive device laid by the Islamic State and 200 grams of additional explosive material.
