The US-led campaigns in Iraq between 1990-1991 and 2003-2004 saw the widespread use of depleted uranium – a highly toxic, radioactive substance contained in certain armour-piercing shells and other munitions. The employment of weapons containing DU in Iraq has been blamed for high cancer rates and other severe illnesses.
Iraq formally filed a lawsuit against the United States over its repeated use of depleted uranium munitions in recent decades, including against Iraq’s former nuclear facilities, Iraq’s al-Maalomah News Agency has reported.
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