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Protesters hold umbrellas in thick tear gas.
Conflict & Justice
Tear gas has been banned in warfare. Why do police still use it?
A person holds tear gas canisters and shot guns shells all tied on to a string
The global tear gas business is booming. It’s complicated.
A man, center, stands in a back-light doorway looking into a room in rubble.
Conflict
Syrian warplanes strike eastern Ghouta despite Russian truce
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (R) meeting Abdullah al-Ahmar, deputy general secretary of Syria's ruling Baath Party, on a visit to Pyongyang in 2013
Conflict
A key supplier of Syria’s chemical weapons? North Korea.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaking during a previous interview with Croatian newspaper Vecernji List in Damascus, Syria, April 6.
Conflict
Interview: Syria’s Assad says US ‘fabricated’ chemical attack to justify strikes
Syria chemical weapons 2014
Conflict
World powers condemn Assad’s regime as Russia protects it
Syria
Conflict
If Assad stayed, could Syria ever rebuild from war?
A civil defense member breathes through an oxygen mask, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria on April 4.
Conflict
Dozens of Syrian civilians killed in apparent chemical attack
CCTV image Kuala Lumpur Malaysia airport
Conflict
Kim Jong-nam was killed by VX nerve agent, Malaysia says
A soldier from the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade adjusts his gas mask prior to an air analysis mission near an oil and gas separation plant at the Baba Gurgur oil field outside northern Iraq's town of Kirkuk on May 3, 2003.
Health
The Army’s secrecy habit kept US troops from getting needed treatment after chemical weapons exposure
Military personnel, believed to be Russian servicemen, march outside the Crimean city of Simferopol, March 4, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
This is how Ukraine could end up derailing any progress in Syria
Islamic Republic of Iran Army T-55s move to front line of Iran-Iraq War.
Global Politics
The US and Iran part IV – hostile relations
Chinese commando guards
Conflict & Justice
Finally, the chemical weapon materials are moving out of Syria
Workers dressed in protective clothes hold a mock chemical World War Two grenade during a demonstration
Conflict & Justice
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