About 30,000 Persian Gulf War veterans who were told in 1997 that they were not exposed to nerve gas will soon be notified that they probably came in contact with low levels of the substance, ...

The gas plumes, the researchers said, can be blamed for symptoms of Gulf War illness, the mysterious ailment that has affected more than 250,000 veterans of the war.

Soldiers with the U.S. Army's 7th Corps huddle in a bunker in Eastern Saudi Arabia with gas masks and chemical suits just after U.S. planes started bombing Iraq, in this Jan. 18, 1991 file photo.

Gulf War syndrome is estimated to affect between 175,000 and 250,000 of the nearly 700,000 troops from the United States, United Kingdom and other allied countries who were deployed in the Gulf ...

The Gulf War exposed the country’s vulnerability to long-range missile fire ... And if he did, what stood between Israeli civilians and disaster were plastic sheets, masking tape, gas masks, ...

On 19 January 1991 he was with 6000 British troops at Al Jubayl in Saudi Arabia, as the first Gulf war was beginning. ... and troops scrambled into gas masks as chemical detector alarms sounded.

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Such missiles were used during the Gulf War against Iraqi Scuds fired at Israel. ... Not surprisingly, some Israelis lined up Monday for new gas masks. During the 1991 war, ...