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Libya has shipped the last of its chemical weapons stocks out of the country, officials said today, under a UN-backed plan to ensure the arsenal could not fall into the wrong hands.

Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where Islamic State insurgents were battling another group, according to a report by an international watchdog seen by Reuters.

Libya has shipped the last of its chemical weapons stocks out of the country, officials said today, under a UN-backed plan to ensure the arsenal could not fall into the wrong hands.

Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where Islamic State insurgents were battling another group, according to a report by an international watchdog seen by Reuters.