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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

Halabja

People gather around a levelled building in the mountainous town of Darbandikhan in Iraqi Kurdistan on November 13, 2017, following a 7.3-magnitude quake that hit the Iraq-Iran border area. (AFP PHOTO / SHWAN MOHAMMED)
November 14, 2017, 8:55 am
Iran quake survivors spend second night in the open air
Tehran declares national day of mourning as agencies struggle to get aid to freezing mountain region after tremor that killed over 400
By Siavosh GHAZI and Shwan Mohammed
Relatives weep over the body of an earthquake victim, in Sarpol-e-Zahab, western Iran, November 13, 2017. (Farzad Menati/Tasnim News Agency via AP)
November 13, 2017, 6:21 pm
Iran hunts for quake survivors as death toll passes 400
7.3-magnitude temblor injures thousands, leaves tens of thousands without homes; authorities struggle to provide tents, food
By Siavosh GHAZI and Shwan Mohammed
People stand in the street after feeling aftershocks from an earthquake in Baghdad, Iraq, November 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
November 12, 2017, 9:40 pm
Israel rattled as 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes northeast Iraq
No injuries or damage reported in Israel as temblors felt in Tel Aviv and across region; at least 61 killed in Iran
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Sarin gas in 105 mm artillery shells being stored at a US site (illustrative photo: Courtesy)
April 8, 2017, 12:32 am
Sarin: Lethal nerve gas that kills in minutes
Discovered in Nazi Germany, chemical agent was used by Saddam Hussein’s regime to gas thousands of Kurds in 1988
By AFP
Graves of victims of Halabja gas attack in Kurdistan region of Iraq (photo credit: Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
June 11, 2013, 1:40 am
25 years on, Saddam’s Kurdish victims seek justice
Survivors of 1988 Halabja attack demand an investigation of the French company that supplied poison gas to Iraqi government
By Lazar Berman and AP
An Israeli leaving a gas mask distribution center in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Flash 90/ Yonantan Sindel)
May 27, 2013, 4:37 pm
Demand for gas masks up by 30 percent
Sharp rise comes in the wake of reported Israeli airstrikes on Syria and subsequent retaliation threats from Damascus
By Mitch Ginsburg
Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani, in Damascus, Syria, October 2012. (photo credit: AP/SANA)
December 7, 2012, 3:06 am
Assad may be preparing to take chemical weapons with him in a retreat from Damascus, Israeli expert says
Dictator’s own father said to have used hydrogen cyanide against Muslim Brotherhood activists when killing 20,000 in Hama in 1982
By Mitch Ginsburg
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