MOSCOW, November 6. /TASS/. Islamic State militants used mustard gas in a military clash with government troops in Iraq’s Mosul, Sky News Arabia said on Sunday, citing a Kurdish source in ...

"Iraq no good," he says, smiling and gesturing around him at the obliterated ruins of Mosul's Old City. This is the southwestern frontline in the battle for the Old City, where the elite Emergency ...

But the most infamous - and deadliest - was mustard gas, in reality an oily vapour first used by the Germans in July 1917, again near Ypres. Known as the “King of Battle Gases”, it acted by ...