White phosphorus is a material made from a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus that is used in smoke, tracer, illumination and incendiary munitions. Other common names include WP ...

It causes skin to melt away from the bone and can break down a victim's jawbone, but white phosphorus - known in Vietnam as Willie Pete - is still used by sections of the world's military.

White phosphorus is definitely the more exciting of the two ... These LEDs contain metal phosphides such as those of gallium and indium. In the natural world the elemental form of phosphorus is never ...

Bystanders soon alerted the 41-year-old to the fact her jacket was ablaze. The stone was actually white phosphorus, which had reacted with the air as it dried. Police say the two are easily confused.

Russia said on Wednesday that Ukraine had repeatedly dropped white phosphorus munitions from drones in September, but Kyiv ...

Beirut, Lebanon – Israel has intensively used white phosphorus on a strip in southern Lebanon that matches a zone its army has marked as a red “no go” zone on maps it distributes to Lebanese ...

RABAT, November 5. /TASS/. Israel has been widely using prohibited white phosphorus to shell the Gaza Strip over the past two days, the Qatari-based Al Jazeera television channel reported on ...

In drone footage released by Ukraine's military, Bakhmut can be seen ablaze as what appears to be white phosphorus rains down on the city. White phosphorus weapons are not banned, but their use in ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran's UN envoy, Amir Saeid Iravani, has condemned Israel for using white phosphorus munitions in its wars against Gaza and Lebanon and called for an international investigation.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that Ukraine had repeatedly dropped white phosphorus munitions from drones in September, but Kyiv denied it had used such weapons and said it was Moscow ...