A new report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) raises concerns about Iran's opaque chemical weapons program, which argues policymakers have paid little attention to compared with ...

The U.S. accused Russia of using chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops. The U.S. State Department also assessed that Russia has used "riot control agents," or tear gas, as a method of warfare in ...

Russia’s Deflections and Denials of Chemical Weapons Use in Ukraine: Forty-one nations met in the Netherlands to discuss enforcing the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international ban on ...

The United States has formally accused Russia of using chemical weapons "as a method of warfare" against Ukraine and imposed sweeping new sanctions on Russian firms and government bodies. In a ...

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 ...

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, meets with Robert Ford, the new U.S. ambassador to Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Jan. 27, 2011.

Remember when the civilized countries of the world believed using chemical weapons was a war crime not to be tolerated? And yet there are numerous credible media accounts that Russia has deployed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke rises after a Russian drone and missile strike on Kyiv. Andreas Stroh/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa Russia is increasing its use of ...

May 22, 2025 (WASHINGTON) – The United States will impose sanctions on Sudan after determining its government used chemical weapons in 2024, the State Department announced on Thursday. The ...