NON-STATE ACTORS AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS THREAT LEVEL IN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
NON-STATE ACTORS AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS THREAT LEVEL IN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Summary/Abstract: Started initially as riot movements focused mainly on inflicting governmental changes, the Arab revolutions rapidly degenerated into ethnic and sectarian conflicts affecting thousands of people and generating the biggest humanitarian crises after the World War II. The incapacity of national governments to manage the crises led to the rise and development of powerful radical Islamic groups all seeking to seize the political power and as many territories as possible. Extended over the large areas of the Middle East and North Africa, some of these Islamic radical groups became a real WMD threat by their capabilities to develop and employ chemical weapons in their military and terrorist actions. This article seeks to determine the chemical threat level posed by these radicalised jihadi groups.

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