Experts fear that sarin, chlorine and mustard gas stockpiles could be unsecured. By Megha Rajagopalan Megha Rajagopalan reported from Damascus, Syria. She interviewed former chemical weapons ...

As many of us start our spring cleaning, experts say it’s essential to be careful when mixing cleaning chemicals.The most ...

In the Syrian civil war’s earliest days, Assad’s government only disclosed the locations of 27 sites to the OPCW.

This growing body of evidence strongly indicates that Syria’s chemical weapons infrastructure was far more expansive than ...

The Germans’ use of chlorine prompted a chemical arms race ... But the most infamous - and deadliest - was mustard gas, in reality an oily vapour first used by the Germans in July 1917, again ...

According to a New York Times report, there is concern that reservoirs of sarin, mustard gas and chlorine could be not secured and lead to disaster. Since the fall of the Assad regime in December ...

Chlorine is a lung injurant ... Vesicants are blister-producers. Mustard gas, which is really an oily liquid, was called “the king of battle gases” although it was seldom fatal unless its ...

Al-Assad used weapons like sarin and chlorine gas against rebel fighters and Syrian civilians during more than a decade of ...