Chemical Warfare

US has accused Russia of using banned choking gas Chloropicrin to drive out Ukrainian troops on Thursday as it launches its biggest advance in the eastern European country two years into its military invasion.

The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents "as a method of warfare" in Ukraine.

The United States has determined Pyongyang used the chemical warfare agent VX to assassinate the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia in 2017 and has imposed sanctions in response, the US State Department said on Tuesday.

The White House press secretary had criticized Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons, saying that even Adolf Hitler - who used gas chambers to kill millions of Jews - did not sink to that level of warfare and "was not using the gas on his own people in the same way that Assad is doing."

A host of technologies - meant to counter the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological warfare -- developed by India's defense research organization DRDO were handed over to the army on Thursday. The technologies also included India's first indigenously made weapons locating radar and a number of drugs to combat radiation sickness and minimize th...

North Korea has up to 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons, South Korean experts said Friday, including the toxin used to assassinate its leader's half-brother.

The North Korean leader's half brother was killed by VX, a lethal nerve agent that can be absorbed through the skin, Malaysian police said Friday, giving their first assessment of the cause of Kim Jong Nam's death.

Russia said today there was a growing threat from ISIS terrorists waging chemical warfare in the Middle East and called for global negotiations on a new pact to combat what he called "a grave reality of our time".

France could face the risk of chemical or bacterial warfare in its fight against Islamist terrorists, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said today.

India and the United States, who signed a new framework agreement for closer cooperation in defence on Wednesday, have sealed a deal to jointly develop protective gear for soldiers against biological and chemical warfare, and another on building generators, defence officials said on Wednesday.

In 2013, Eliot Higgins used videos posted online from Syria to track weapons and pinpoint a chemical strike in Damascus from a computer in the English Midlands.

The Obama administration is offering to destroy some of Syria's deadliest chemical weapons in international waters aboard a nearly 700-foot (213-meter), U.S. government-owned ship, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Text of President Barack Obama's speech on Syria, as provided by the Federal News Service

President Barack Obama signaled on Tuesday he is no rush to respond quickly to Syria's apparent use of chemical weapons, taking a cautious approach to the country's civil war, mirroring the views of the American public, most lawmakers and some US allies.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Syria again Monday to allow experts into the country without delay or conditions to investigate allegations of chemical weapons use, saying this is a "crucial moment" to get the team on the ground.

US has accused Russia of using banned choking gas Chloropicrin to drive out Ukrainian troops on Thursday as it launches its biggest advance in the eastern European country two years into its military invasion.

The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents "as a method of warfare" in Ukraine.

The United States has determined Pyongyang used the chemical warfare agent VX to assassinate the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia in 2017 and has imposed sanctions in response, the US State Department said on Tuesday.

The White House press secretary had criticized Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons, saying that even Adolf Hitler - who used gas chambers to kill millions of Jews - did not sink to that level of warfare and "was not using the gas on his own people in the same way that Assad is doing."

A host of technologies - meant to counter the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological warfare -- developed by India's defense research organization DRDO were handed over to the army on Thursday. The technologies also included India's first indigenously made weapons locating radar and a number of drugs to combat radiation sickness and minimize th...

North Korea has up to 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons, South Korean experts said Friday, including the toxin used to assassinate its leader's half-brother.

The North Korean leader's half brother was killed by VX, a lethal nerve agent that can be absorbed through the skin, Malaysian police said Friday, giving their first assessment of the cause of Kim Jong Nam's death.

Russia said today there was a growing threat from ISIS terrorists waging chemical warfare in the Middle East and called for global negotiations on a new pact to combat what he called "a grave reality of our time".

France could face the risk of chemical or bacterial warfare in its fight against Islamist terrorists, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said today.

India and the United States, who signed a new framework agreement for closer cooperation in defence on Wednesday, have sealed a deal to jointly develop protective gear for soldiers against biological and chemical warfare, and another on building generators, defence officials said on Wednesday.

In 2013, Eliot Higgins used videos posted online from Syria to track weapons and pinpoint a chemical strike in Damascus from a computer in the English Midlands.

The Obama administration is offering to destroy some of Syria's deadliest chemical weapons in international waters aboard a nearly 700-foot (213-meter), U.S. government-owned ship, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Text of President Barack Obama's speech on Syria, as provided by the Federal News Service

President Barack Obama signaled on Tuesday he is no rush to respond quickly to Syria's apparent use of chemical weapons, taking a cautious approach to the country's civil war, mirroring the views of the American public, most lawmakers and some US allies.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Syria again Monday to allow experts into the country without delay or conditions to investigate allegations of chemical weapons use, saying this is a "crucial moment" to get the team on the ground.