Sailors were drenched in liquid mustard gas, or sulfur mustard, which floated in a foot-thick layer on the water. People had never been so immersed in mustard gas, says Susan Smith, a historian of ...

On March 16, 1988, the town of Halabja in northern Iraq experienced unspeakable horror. It was the day Saddam Hussein ...

Mustard gas, or sulfur mustard, is one of the most harmful chemical warfare agents, causing severe blistering of the skin and mucous membranes upon contact. To enhance battlefield detection of ...

TASS/. Russia is satisfied with conclusions included in the OPCW mission’s report that sulphur mustard gas was used in the Syrian village of Maarat Umm-Hawsh in the Aleppo region, Russia’s ...

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