Editing Chemical warfare (section)

=== Post-War ===
During the [[Iran–Iraq War]], some 100,000 Iranian troops were casualties of Iraqi chemical weapons.<ref>{{citation|last=Fassihi|first=Farnaz|title=In Iran, grim reminders of Saddam's arsenal|date=October 27, 2002|url=http://www.nj.com/specialprojects/index.ssf?/specialprojects/mideaststories/me1209.html|journal=New Jersey Star Ledger|access-date=January 28, 2005|archive-date=December 13, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213061050/http://www.nj.com/specialprojects/index.ssf?%2Fspecialprojects%2Fmideaststories%2Fme1209.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation|author=Paul Hughes|title=It's like a knife stabbing into me|date=January 21, 2003|url=http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=39470|work=The Star (South Africa)}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Sciolino|first=Elaine|title=Iraq Chemical Arms Condemned, but West Once Looked the Other Way|date=February 13, 2003|url=http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0213-05.htm|journal=[[The New York Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527105217/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0213-05.htm|archive-date=May 27, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Iraq also used [[mustard gas]] and nerve agents against the Kurdish population killing more than 5000 people and injuring many in the 1988 [[Halabja chemical attack]].<ref name="BBCHalabja">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4304000/4304853.stm On this day: 1988: Thousands die in Halabja gas attack], BBC News (March 16, 1988).</ref>

The [[Cuban intervention in Angola]] saw limited use of [[organophosphate]]s.<ref name="Angola">{{cite book|title=Bush War: The Road to Cuito Cuanavale: Soviet Soldiers' Accounts of the Angolan War|publisher=Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd|year=2011|isbn=978-1-4314-0185-7|editor1=Tokarev, Andrei|location=Auckland Park|pages=128–130|editor2=Shubin, Gennady}}</ref>

[[Chemical terrorism|Terrorist groups have also used chemical weapons]], notably in the [[Tokyo subway sarin attack]] and the [[Matsumoto incident]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/06/japan-executes-sarin-gas-attack-cult-leader-shoko-asahara-and-six-members-reports|title=Japan executes sarin gas attack cult leader Shoko Asahara and six members|work=The Guardian|access-date=18 July 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622032307/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/06/japan-executes-sarin-gas-attack-cult-leader-shoko-asahara-and-six-members-reports|archive-date=22 June 2019}}</ref><ref>Seto, Yasuo. "[https://www.opcw.org/news/article/the-sarin-gas-attack-in-japan-and-the-related-forensic-investigation/ The Sarin Gas Attack in Japan and the Related Forensic Investigation.]" The Sarin Gas Attack in Japan and the Related Forensic Investigation. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, June 1, 2001. Web. February 24, 2017.</ref>