The Latest Breaking News from chemical weapons

U.N. investigators are compiling evidence on the development and use of chemical weapons by Islamic State extremists in Iraq after they seized about a third of the country in 2014

The destruction of chemical weapons stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County is in the home stretch. If all goes according to schedule, the last nerve agent rocket will be destroyed by August.

The new statement warns of a deeper concern, saying AI could be used to develop new chemical weapons

Dan Kaszeta is one of at least eight speakers banned by opaque vetting scheme in ‘attack on free speech’

France's Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on Tuesday called for the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to be prosecuted for ordering the use of chemical weapons and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Syrians during the country's civil war.

The Hague (AFP) - The world's chemical weapons watchdog on Friday failed to agree a roadmap for the next five years because of deep divisions between Western powers, and Russia and Syria.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been shunned internationally for over a decade, due to the brutal repression of anti-government protesters and the use of chemical weapons by his regime during the country's civil war. Despite numerous reported atrocities, the leader has clung onto power with the sole support of two…

They could transform the battlefield but is the world ready for machines that decide who to kill? No, say many nations.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the UK is ‘very much on our guard about what happens next’.

President Bashar al-Assad always saw time as an ally in Syria's civil war, alongside the Russian and Iranian firepower he turned on his foes, sources familiar with his thinking say.

Taichung (Taiwan) (AFP) - Screaming citizens reacted to everything from missile strikes to a chemical weapons blast and a deadly metro station attack during disaster-preparedness drills in Taiwan on Thursday.