The most widely used, mustard gas, could kill by blistering ... place until the war was over.) But even in World War One there were those who argued gas was no worse than other weapons.

Mustard gas, which a watchdog on Friday said the so-called Islamic State group may have manufactured and used in Syria and Iraq, first terrorised battlefields during World War I. The Organisation ...

Poison gas was one of the most hated and feared weapons during World War One. But it proved just as ... soldier's loathing of poison gas. But mustard gas was just as dangerous to those ...

Soldiers transferred tons of mustard gas shells to underground silos Monday, but officials warned that more of the deadly World War I chemical agent could be inside the Vimy depot in northern France.

A hundred years ago the German army became the first to use chemical weapons in World War One. Remnants can still ... inhaled a small amount of mustard gas. "I leaned the projectile against ...

Europe fell silent today to honour the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the bloodiest battles of World War One and the first in which mustard gas was used effectively as a weapon.

The Rescue Board (Päästeamet) has neutralized corroded metal barrels discovered on Saaremaa several years ago and which were found to contain mustard gas dating back to World War One. The board's ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A mysterious substance, containing mustard gas, is causing a temporary ... researched and tested weapons during the World War One era. It was known as the American University ...

The Syrian government’s chemical weapon attack, with its images of dead children, coincides with this week’s 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, where chlorine, mustard gas ...

On June 2, 1918, during Germany’s spring offensive offensive on the Western Front, a French unit pulling back to more defensible ground encountered a newly arrived company of Marines marching ...