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With a Dec. 15 executive order, President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to classify a narcotic as a weapon of mass destruction. Trump used U.S. deaths from fentanyl to justify the ...

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, meets with Robert Ford, the new U.S. ambassador to Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Jan. 27, 2011.

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While lacking the scientific infrastructure necessary for a full-blown chemical weapons program, the Houthis could still renew their threat to Red Sea shipping. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have ...

The wave of violence by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection has brought law enforcement’s use of force coming under renewed scrutiny — though even so-called “less ...

There’s a line drawn in the sand when it comes to what weapons and platforms are considered war crimes. Over the last century or so, the international community has established a series of complex ...

With Western leaders weighing whether to intervene in the Syrian war with a Libya-style bombing campaign or by arming the Syrian rebels with heavy weaponry, it would seem logical that President Bashar ...

Wicomico County Public Schools has purchased 11 weapon detection systems for use at large events and in smaller programs. The Board of Education supports expanding the use of these systems to all ...

The LOCUST Laser Weapon System, a 20-kilowatt counter-drone weapon, conducts tests at the Military Institute of Armament Technology in Zielonka, Poland in February 2026. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via ...