The Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance in Yemen, MASAM, announced Sunday, June 22, 2025, that its engineering teams have removed close to 3,699 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) across liberated areas of Yemen since the beginning of June. ...
The Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance (MASAM) announced on Thursday a significant milestone in its efforts to rid Yemen of deadly explosives, reporting the clearance of over 67 million square meters of land over the past seven years. The initiative also confirmed the removal of more...
The Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance (MASAM) announced on Sunday that its field teams have successfully removed 500,000 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices across various regions of Yemen. Osama Al-Qusaybi, MASAM's General Manager, stated in a press release...
A civilian was critically injured on Wednesday after a landmine planted by the Houthi group exploded while he was plowing agricultural land in Yemen's western Hodeidah province. Local sources in Hodeidah reported that Yahya Mohammed Abdullah Hashash sustained severe injuries t...
An unexploded projectile, a remnant of the conflict with the Houthi group, seriously injured a civilian today in Al-Faw area of Yemen's northeastern Marib governorate, according to security sources. Marib police, in a statement seen by "Bran Press," identified the inju...
Project Masam, the Saudi-funded initiative to clear landmines in Yemen, announced today that its teams have successfully removed 1,689 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) across several Yemeni governorates over the past week. These cleared muniti...
A devastating landmine explosion in Yemen's central Al-Baydha governorate today claimed the life of one civilian and severely injured two others from the same family. Human rights sources attributed the blast to a landmine planted by the Iran-backed Houthi group. The E...
Two children were injured, one critically, on Thursday, after a projectile—a remnant of war—exploded in Al-Manin area south of Marib city. Local sources in northeastern Yemen told "Baran Press" that 8-year-old Yahya Maqbool Murshid Al-Bukhaikh sustained severe ...
The Saudi-funded "Masam" mine clearance project in Yemen has been extended for an additional year with a $52.994 million boost, the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) announced Thursday. The extension underscores efforts to enhance security and aid i...
The Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance (MSAM) announced today the removal of 1,504 mines, unexploded ordnance, and IEDs planted by the Houthi group across Yemen in the past week. The Houthis are internationally designated as a terrorist organization. This brings MSAM&#...
Project Masam, the Saudi-backed demining initiative in Yemen, announced Thursday that its teams have removed 1,095 mines planted by the Houthi group across several provinces during the third week of May. The mines cleared include 32 anti-tank mines, 7 anti-personnel mines, and 1,056...
The Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance in Yemen ("Masam") announced, on Wednesday, detonation of a substantial cache of (3,036) landmines and unexploded ordnance in the strategically important Bab al-Mandab region of southwestern Yemen. This operation un...
The Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance in Yemen (MASAM) reported Wednesday that its teams destroyed 600 landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) collected in the Dhahaba area of Ain District, Shabwa Governorate, southern Yemen. The explosives were gathered over the preceding m...
A 17-year-old boy suffered critical injuries on Tuesday after stepping on a landmine planted by the Iran-backed Houthi group in the Maqbanah district, west of Taiz Governorate, southwestern Yemen, local sources reported. The sources, speaking to "Baran Press," identi...
The Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance in Yemen ("MASAM") announced on Sunday that its field teams had removed 1,839 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by the Houthi group during the past week. According to a statement publi...
The Saudi-funded Masam Project for landmine clearance in Yemen has uncovered a new minefield in the al-Suwaiydiyah area of Al Khokha district, Hodeidah governorate, where Iran-backed Houthis had allegedly planted mines indiscriminately in agricultural lands. According to a statement reviewed by B...
The Saudi-backed Masam Project announced on Monday that its teams removed 1,050 landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from Yemeni territory in the past week alone. According to a statement on its official website, reviewed by Barran Press, Masam’s f...
The United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) issued a report today indicating a concerning rise in civilian casualties from landmines and explosive remnants in Hodeidah province, western Yemen. UNMHA stated that eight civilians were killed and one injured last month alone d...
The Saudi-led demining initiative Masam announced on April 1, 2025, that its teams had removed 2,727 explosive devices, including anti-tank mines, across Yemen in March. The operation covered government-controlled areas, clearing more than 225,957 square meters of land last month alone. Since its ...
Masam, the Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance in Yemen, announced substantial progress in its efforts, reporting the removal of 551 Houthi-planted landmines across multiple Yemeni provinces in the past week, as of Wednesday. These mines, including 35 anti-tank mines, 513 unexploded ordnances, an...