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Could Chemical Weapons Make a Comeback?
Designed to inflict extensive suffering, death, and chaos, the use of toxic chemical weapons is a horrific fact of past wars.
Dealing with Assad’s toxic legacy, one secret chemical lab at a time
People in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus always thought something strange was happening at the nearby state security facility. Walled off and heavily guarded, the government compound was off limits ...
‘I wasn’t sure if I was dead or alive’: Survivor recalls horror of 7/7 bombing on packed London Tube
Survivors share chilling testimony ten years after three tubes and one bus were targeted by suicide bombers in London twenty years ago ...
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Chinese soldiers use disastrous flamethrower guns that can melt human flesh
Recent images show Chinese soldiers from a chemical defense detachment of a brigade under the PLA firing flamethrower guns at ...
If Syrian Chemical Weapons Were Found, the U.S. Army Could Safely Destroy Them
A civilian team at a base in Maryland disposed of Syrian toxins a decade ago after hundreds of people were killed in a nerve ...
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‘Death was everywhere’: Syria’s chemical weapon victims share their trauma
Since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s chemical weapon victims have recounted their trauma without fear of ...
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Russia detains suspect who rigged electric scooter with explosives in killing of nuke boss Igor Kirillov, assistant
The US State Department also says it has recorded Russia using chloropicrin — a chemical weapon used in World War I – against Ukrainian soldiers.
Americans alarmed by ‘chemical fog’ spreading across the US: Phenomenon sparks bioweapon conspiracy theories after drone sightings
At the time, serratia marcescens and bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay area to determine how ...
The hunt for any remaining chemical weapons in Syria
The United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have documented 34 known uses of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war between 2013 and 2018. The end Bashar ...
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Assad regime uses chemical weapons on Syrians when it 'feels most at risk': US envoy
He stated that the latest resumption of the Syrian conflict is "a reminder of the relevance of" the Security Council's meeting on chemical weapon usage in Syria as well as the resolutions 2118 and ...
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‘Death was everywhere’: Syria’s chemical weapon victims share their trauma
Eastern Ghouta, Syria – Amina Habya was still awake when she heard screaming outside her window in Zamalka, Ghouta, on the night of August 21, 2013. The regime of Bashar al-Assad had just fired ...