These forgotten weapons are landmines we’re found metal detecting and used in the American Civil War and are a rare part of history that forever changed warfare. They were used by the ...

What weapons were used during World War One and what effect did new technology have? Find out in this year 5/6 primary history guide from BBC Bitesize.

Revolutionary Firepower: How Civil War Weapons Changed Combat. The Civil War was by far the most deadly war in American history. The bloody four-year conflict between the northern and southern ...

US to sanction Sudan after finding chemical weapons used in civil war. Sudan’s army-aligned government denies allegations that it has used chemical weapons in war against paramilitary rivals.

The weapons that they carried, however, were very different. The "spar torpedoes" Confederate submersibles used had little in common with the torpedoes we know today.

Following Iraq’s defeat in the first Gulf War of 1991, Iraq’s chemical weapons program was mostly dismantled by the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq from 1991 to 1998 under Security Council ...

The weapons were sold to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi during a proxy war between a coalition of Gulf States and Iranian-backed Houthi ... US defense companies sued by Yemenis over weapons used in civil war.

Overview of the Lesson - Landmines and the American Civil War. Author Ken Rutherford provides an overview of his lecture about the early history of landmines, which were used for the first time on ...

Following Iraq’s defeat in the first Gulf War of 1991, Iraq’s chemical weapons program was mostly dismantled by the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq from 1991 to 1998 under Security Council ...

“They were discussing the civil war in Syria, ... Fears that Mr. al-Assad had not given up all his chemical weapons were confirmed in early 2018 when the rebel-held town of Douma was attacked.