Chemical weapons

Artificial intelligence firms hire experts in explosives, chemical weapons

Anthropic is seeking a Policy Manager for Chemical Weapons and High-Yield Explosives with at least five years of experience.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A view of an old gas mask that according to local residents was left behind by Russian soldiers inside a building that normally houses a variety of businesses including an agricultural machinery repair company, in Bucha, Ukraine April 19, 2022.
Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa looks on as he attends the “Aleppo, Key to Victory” celebration marking Syria’s liberation, in Aleppo, Syria May 27, 2025.

Syria unveils plan to rid country of Assad's chemical weapons stockpile

Syria has unveiled a plan to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons with international support. The operation will inspect 100 sites to track and destroy remaining toxic munitions.

|ByREUTERS
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last Shah of Iran, attends a press conference about the situation in Iran and the need to support Iranians, in Paris, France, June 23, 2025.

Pahlavi or Khamenei: Iran is at a crossroads - opinion

The West keeps mistaking regime survival tactics for reform; the Iranians know better and have paid with their lives.

|ByMANI BASHARZAD, MIKE SALEM
Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran's Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities

'Delayed deaths': UK report claims chemical agents used on Iranian protesters

Reports from UK officials suggest Iran used chemical substances to control protesters. Alleged delayed health reactions lead to deaths days later, sparking international concern.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, ELI LEON, MAARIV

Scientists find sarin gas, genes behind Gulf War illness

Veterans exposed to sarin nerve gas were more likely to develop GWI and this risk was affected by a gene known as PON1.

MAY 12, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
US Marines roll into Kuwait International Airport in light armored vehicles after the retreat of Iraqi forces from Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm. At right is a CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter.

Ukraine uses website to train fighters remotely

The site provides varied articles and instructional videos on various topics, from basic first aid and steps to take during chemical attacks to operating an FGM-148 javelin rocket.

APRIL 19, 2022ByROMAN MEITAV
Service members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fire a Javelin anti-tank missile during drills at a training ground in an unknown location in Ukraine, in this handout picture released February 18, 2022.

WHO says making contingency plans for possible 'chemical assaults' in Ukraine

"Given the uncertainties of the current situation, there are no assurances that the war will not get worse," WHO's European head Hans Kluge said.

APRIL 7, 2022ByREUTERS
UN chemical weapons experts inspect alleged chemical samples from an attack in Syria, 2013

Biden says Putin is weighing use of chemical weapons in Ukraine

Biden claimed Russia's false accusations that Kyiv had biological weapons illustrated that Putin is considering using them himself.

MARCH 22, 2022ByREUTERS
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden at the White House this week – tough decision to make.

Reports in Russian media accuses Ukraine of sabotaging chemical plant

Several Russian media outlets have accused Ukrainian forces of sabotaging the Avdiivka advanced chemistry plant in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

MARCH 14, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
People are seen near cars, which locals said were burned during recent shelling, in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine February 28, 2022.

Poland: Putin using chemical weapons in Ukraine - a NATO game-changer

Poland's President Andrzej Duda warns that NATO would have to think "seriously" about how to respond of Putin uses chemical weapons in Ukraine.

MARCH 13, 2022ByREUTERS
POLISH PRESIDENT Andrzej Duda.

Russian forces may use chemical weapons, says Ukraine’s envoy to OPCW

“Possibility of provocation, such as blowing up industrial tanks with chemicals.“

MARCH 9, 2022ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Fire fighters extinguish fire in an oil depot that Ukraine's State Emergency Services say was caused by Russian strikes in Zhytomyr region, Ukraine March 7, 2022 in this still image obtained from a handout video.

French-Syrian arrested for alleged delivery of chemical weapon parts to Syria

The AFP said the suspect, who was arrested on Saturday in southern France, was born in 1962 and lives outside of France.

DECEMBER 27, 2021ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Employees of the Research Institute for Protective Technologies, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection (WIS) inspect a dummy sample which is contaminated with a substance similar to the chemical weapon Sarin.

Did Turkey use chemical weapons in northern Iraq?

BEHIND THE LINES: While no conclusions regarding the veracity of these claims can, at this stage, be drawn, the substantive issue at hand is whether they will even be investigated.

DECEMBER 23, 2021ByJONATHAN SPYER
IRAQI KURDS burn the Turkish flag during a demonstration outside the UN building in Erbil in protest of Turkey’s incursion in Syria in October 2019.

The message behind ‘Israel airstrikes on Syrian chemical weapons’? - analysis

The Washington Post published a story revealing that Israeli carried out strikes on chemical weapons facilities in Syria.

DECEMBER 14, 2021BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Missile fire is seen from Damascus, Syria May 10, 2018.