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Report claims authorities found traces of phosgene. The gas can cause vomiting and breathing trouble and was used as a weapon in World War I.

Israel is preparing for the possibility that the Hamas terror organization in Gaza and the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon may attack using rockets filled with various liquid fentanyl variants, designed to incapacitate and kill large numbers of people.

Global security picture including nuclear, chemical, and biological war is worsening and this is all America’s fault, Russia claims.

Israel’s ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog, told Britain’s Sky News on Sunday that Hamas terrorists were found with USB drives that included instructions on how to manufacture cyanide for use against Israelis.

BERLIN (AP) – A 32-year-old Iranian man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an attack with deadly chemicals, officials said Sunday.

North Korea has likely amassed between 2,500 and 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, including extremely toxic nerve agents such as sarin, in recent years, according to estimates published in a joint report on Tuesday by the RAND Corporation and South Korea’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies, the website NK News reported.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told members of the Estonian Parliament on Wednesday that Russia had used “phosphorus bombs” against civilians in his country.

When Joe Biden was asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy to clarify his assertion that Russian President Vladimir Putin would trigger a “response in kind” if he used chemical weapons, the president grew indignant.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) reacted to President Joe Biden saying America’s response to Russia using chemical weapons will “depend on the nature of the use” by stating Biden’s

President Joe Biden assured the world NATO would respond if Russian President Vladimir Putin used chemical weapons.

President Joe Biden continued raising the alarm Tuesday about Russian President Vladimir Putin employing chemical weapons in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden warned Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was preparing a series of “consequential” and “sophisticated” attacks against the United States as he grows increasingly desperate in Ukraine.

Joe Biden said he would not speak in detail about U.S. intelligence warning that Putin would possibly use chemical weapons to trigger a “false-flag” attack in Ukraine.

Jen Psaki said on Wednesday that the Biden administration will be actively monitoring for Russia to use biological or chemical weapons.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia will continue its “military operation” in Ukraine even if a peace deal is made, until the process of “demilitarization” and “de-Nazification” is completed to Moscow’s satisfaction and Ukraine is stripped of weapons of mass destruction – including chemical and biological weapons he accused the United States of developing on Ukrainian soil.

The Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, an organ of the Russian Defense Ministry, said Sunday it has “received information that militants from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group are plotting a provocation with the use of toxic agents in the western areas of the Idlib governorate.”

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad said during an interview with Russian television on Monday that accusations of him using chemical weapons were a frame-up concocted by his opponents and hostile governments like Saudi Arabia, who allegedly “staged a play” with fake victims to fool the international community.

The United Nations-brokered administration in Libya this week reportedly accused forces loyal to warlord Gen. Khalifa Haftar of using cluster bombs and internationally-banned munitions carrying a phosphorous chemical payload in Tripoli.

Sky News on Tuesday reported seeing “first-hand evidence that hospitals in Idlib are being targeted by Syrian regime forces who also appear to be using banned cluster bombs as they ratchet up their bombardment of the last rebel stronghold in the country.”

The Iranian- and Russian-backed regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad has used banned chemical weapons against its own people more than 300 times since former President Barack Obama declared in 2012 that such attacks would cross a “red line” that would trigger a U.S. military response, the Germany-based Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI) reported on Sunday.

An Iraqi scientist currently on death row for helping the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) develop chemical weapons confirmed that the jihadi group successfully made a new form of the lethal toxin sulfur mustard gas that killed and maimed thousands during World War I, the Washington Post (WaPo) reported this week, noting that the terrorist group likely hid some of those chemicals.

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis are threatening to carry out biological and radio-active attacks against the U.S.-led coalition fighting to demolish the remnants of the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria, Arutz Sheva reported on Sunday.

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime and its ally Russia reportedly blamed rebels for a suspected toxic gas attack in regime-held Aleppo city this weekend. A local monitor group reported that the attack wounded nearly 100 people, including many women and children.

Senator Schatz quickly backpedaled on a stream of tweets about the use of tear gas against migrants attempting to penetrate the U.S. border.

DAMASCUS, Syria — At least 50 civilians were being treated Saturday following a suspected poison gas attack by Syrian rebel groups on the government-held Aleppo city in the country’s north, according to reports in Syrian state media.

The U.S. envoy to a meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) accused Iran on Thursday of developing banned chemical weapons and failing to disclose its activities as required by the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Wednesday that U.S. sanctions against Russia for using chemical weapons in an effort to assassinate former spy Sergei Skripal would be “illegal.”

Russia is demanding Israel give it more advanced notice before carrying out airstrikes on targets in Syria, Israeli television reported Wednesday, as newly published satellite photographs purported to show the deployment of four advanced Russian anti-aircraft batteries near a suspected Syrian chemical weapons site.

The British security minister has acknowledged the threat of terror groups being able to use chemical or biological weapons in the UK, months after the government’s flawed response to the Salisbury chemical attack.

Police closed roads and called a hazardous response team Sunday night after two people became ill at a restaurant in the English city where a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned with a chemical nerve agent.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his security council on Friday to discuss the impending invasion of Syria’s Idlib province.

United Nations war crimes investigators reported on Wednesday they have uncovered more evidence that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad used chlorine gas weapons against civilians on three occasions — one of them in the northwestern province of Idlib, where the U.N. fears Assad and his Russian allies will soon massacre civilians in a massive assault.

Virginia State Senator Richard H. Black (R-Loudoun) has been accused of regurgitating Syrian propaganda by saying in an Arab TV interview that he believes British intelligence is preparing a chemical weapons attack against Syrian civilians, which it will then blame on dictator Bashar Assad as a pretext for military action.

U.S. officials said over the weekend that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has approved the use of banned chemical weapons against rebel positions in Idlib province, adding to worldwide fears of a humanitarian disaster in the final major battle of the Syrian civil war.

There is “lots of evidence” chemical weapons are being prepared by Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, according to one of the State Department’s special advisers on the war-torn country. 

The White House on Tuesday issued a clear warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that he must not use chemical weapons during the massive assault on Idlib province he is expected to launch in the coming days.