Chemical weapons

'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.

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
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with students in Tehran, Iran, November 3, 2025

Israel concerned Iran covets chemical, biological weapons

Qatar's Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, attends the preparatory ministerial meeting for emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Doha, Qatar September 14, 2025.

Qatar, Ireland accuse Israel of using chemical weapons on Palestinians, demand watchdog probe use

Protesters, predominantly Houthi supporters, demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians, in Sanaa, Yemen, August 8, 2025.

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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.

 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.

 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.

 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.“

 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.

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.

 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.

Missile fire is seen from Damascus, Syria May 10, 2018.

Israeli airstrikes targeted chemical weapons facilities in Syria - report

Israel reportedly ordered the airstrikes after intelligence reports suggested Syria was rebuilding its chemical weapons capabilities.

 Syrian medical staff take part in a training exercise to learn how to treat victims of chemical weapons attacks, in a course organized by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Gaziantep, Turkey, July 20, 2017

Iran ‘conceals illegal activities’ for WMD tech - German intel

The report said Iran’s regime can use “Detour deliveries over ‘third states’ in order not to identify the final buyer” and “the use and misuse of inexperienced freight deliverers and transporters."

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.

IDF not prepared for chemical weapons attack

Englman recommended that the commander of the land forces lead a campaign to improve combat units’ readiness for chemical weapons warfare.

The IDF Home Front Command drills gas a chemical weapons attack against Israel in 2013.