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How soldiers faced the threat of poison gas in World War I

Poison gas emerged as one of the most feared weapons of the First World War. Beginning in 1915, chemical agents such as chlorine and mustard gas were deployed on the battlefield, causing widespread ...
Los Angeles Times

Trump considering military strike on Syria in response to poison gas attack

President Trump is considering military action against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government as a response to this week’s poison gas attack that killed more than 70 people, many of them children, ...
Washington Examiner

Poison gas claims complicate Syrian civil war

BEIRUT (AP) — Both sides in Syria’s bloody civil war said Saturday that a rural village fell victim to a poison gas attack, an assault that reportedly injured scores of people amid an ongoing ...
Reuters

Islamic State used poison gas in northeast Syria: Kurds, monitor

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Islamic State group used poison gas in attacks against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria in late June, a Syrian Kurdish militia and a group monitoring the Syrian ...
The Atlantic

Syrian Rebels Say Assad's Troops Just Attacked Them with Poisonous Gas

It's unclear exactly what exactly happened in Homs on Sunday, but it doesn't sound good. Activists say that seven are dead and dozens injured after Syrian government troops used chemical weapons ...