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Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East

Reported Use of Chemical Weapons, Ballistic Missiles, and Cruise Missiles in the Middle East*

Current WMD Middle East Information

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Country Profiles
Information on nuclear, biological & chemical weapons and missile programs, with details on capabilities, facilities, chronologies, and imports/exports.

CNS maintains these Country Profile databases for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).

  Chemical Weapons Ballistic Missiles Cruise Missiles
1920-60

Italy against Libya (late 1920s)

Italy against Ethiopia (1935-36)

   
1961-65 Egypt against Yemen (1963-67)    
1966-70     Egypt against Israel (1967)
1971-75  

Egypt against Israel (1973)

Syria against Israel (1973)

Egypt against Israel (1973)

Israel against Egypt (1973)

Syria against Israel (1973)

1976-80  

Iran against Iraq (1980-88)

Iraq against Iran (1980-88)

 
1981-85

Iraq against Iran (1983-88)

Iran against Iraq (1984-88)

   
1986-90

Libya against Chad (1987)

Iraq against Iraqi Kurds (1988)

Sudan against Sudanese rebels (1989-present)

Libya against USA and Italy (1986)

Iran against Kuwait (1988)

Iran against Kuwait (1987)

Iraq against USA (1987)

Iran against USA (1988)

USA against Iran (1988)

1991-95  

Iraq against Bahrain, Israel, and Saudi Arabia (1991)

Iran against Iranian rebels in Iraq (1994)

North-South attacks in Yemen Civil War (1994)

USA against Iraq (1991)

USA against Iraq (1993)

1996-99    

USA against Iraq (1996)

USA against Iraq (1998)

USA against Sudan (1998)

* For sources and further details, see Michael Barletta and Erik Jorgensen, "Missiles, NBC Weapons, and Conflict in the Middle East: An Annotated Chronology," May 1999, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.


Michael Barletta and Erik Jorgensen, May 1999.
© Center for Nonproliferation Studies,
Monterey Institute of International Studies.


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