AN INCREASINGLY desperate Russia has begun deploying a mysterious new gas on the battlefield in Ukraine. The sinister use of ...

Russian troops have recently increased the number of systematic executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war and continue to use ...

Russian forces have recently increased the number of systematic executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war and continue to use ...

Chemical Weapons Convection, the CWC, prohibits development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. Its goal is to destroy the existing stockpiles and prevent new production. Since the ...

Some deadly landmarks: Lessons learned: The horror of chemical weapons left the world reeling. The Geneva Convention made an attempt to severely limit their future use in warfare. Between the two ...

Recent messages on Russian Telegram channels have confirmed the use of chemical weapons by a Russian neo-Nazi unit against ...

Evhen, the underground hospital’s chief medical officer, grunts at any suggestion that Russia might follow the Geneva ...

The Abe administration is considering sending personnel or equipment to OPCW’s Syria mission.

Theresa May's speech on Syria air strikes in full as she insists military action was "both right and legal" ...

The russian occupiers have recently increased the number of executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs), and also ...

The four Geneva Conventions, agreed by every country, set out how soldiers and civilians should be treated in war. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the basis of modern ...

About the series: The application and interpretation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977 have developed significantly in the sixty years since the ICRC ...