The Gulf war between Iraq and the United States began in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 1990. Saddam Hussein threatened that Israel would be next and wisely taking his threats to heart, we began ...

The M17 mask, an earlier model used by most Army troops during the gulf war, was first fielded in the 1950s. It was designed to protect soldiers from certain types of gas, not biological agents.

Gas masks, missiles and irony: Defense Ministry releases photos of 1991 Gulf War Military archive marks 30 years since the conflict, when Iraq fired dozens of Scud missiles at Israel, with never ...

David Riesenberg/iStockPhoto Current gas masks haven’t changed much since World War II, when manufacturing technology limited the design.

DUBAI: As the US-led coalition war planes are pounding Iraq with bombs and missiles, gas mask making companies are trying to cash in on the fear psychosis of the people in the Gulf region by ...

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 ...

By the seventh night of the war, when air raid sirens had become annoying, I tossed my gas mask aside, confident that Saddam’s threat to use chemical weapons was a bluff.

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.

He said 8,000 soldiers from the Gulf War era responded to questionnaire with more of an emphasis on contacting those who deployed in the conflict. The questionnaire included if a nerve gas alarm ...