It goes back far enough that militaries have developed weapons intended to overwhelm enemies and shift the balance of power on the battlefield.

Until 1970, the US dumped an estimated 17,000 tons of unspent chemical weapons from World War I and II off the coast of the ...

On March 13, 1968, 320 gallons of VX nerve agent spilled into Skull Valley Utah. The following day, over 6,000 sheep were dead, exposing the Military's use of illegal chemical weapons.

Greece called for UN unity on Syria’s chemical weapons file and reaffirmed support for protecting women’s rights in Afghanistan.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Dutch and German intelligence agencies have gathered evidence of widespread Russian use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine, including dropping a choking agent from drones to ...

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 ...

Morocco was elected by acclamation on Friday to the presidency of the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), representing the African Group for a ...

Moscow — Russia's security service said Wednesday that it had detained a suspect in the killing of a senior general in a Moscow bomb blast. The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen whom the ...

The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fell after over 13 years of civil war and nearly 54 years of his family’s dynastic rule. While many Syrians across the country and members of the Syrian ...