History Of Chemical Warfare And The Global Ban. Using chemical weapons has long been regarded as overstepping the boundary of acceptable warfare. As early as 1675, France and Germany agreed in ...

When Germany unleashed chlorine gas at Ypres in 1915, it marked the dawn of modern chemical warfare. Soldiers had no masks, no protection—only panic and death. Was this the most inhumane weapon of WWI ...

Chemical weapons were banned by the Geneva Convention after World War I, but that hasn’t stopped countries from using them, including the United States, Iraq, Syria, and other dictatorships. During ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German troops make their way through a cloud of smoke or gas during a gas training drill, circa 1916. Henry Guttmann/Hulton ...

While Sudan’s land is ablaze with conventional conflict, and as military machinery continues to claim lives with bullets and ...

The international community should immediately investigate accusations that the Islamic Republic attacked demonstrators with weapons of mass destruction.

The European Union stands united in supporting chemical disarmament and non-proliferation, and in the fight against impunity for the use of chemical weapons. Chemical weapons are chemicals used to ...

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Iran has contravened the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) by enhancing its chemical weapons capabilities for home and international use, says the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). The nonprofit ...

With Western leaders weighing whether to intervene in the Syrian war with a Libya-style bombing campaign or by arming the Syrian rebels with heavy weaponry, it would seem logical that President Bashar ...