the 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) in 1934, and also in the Xinjiang War (1937) in 1936–37 Italy against Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in 1935-1936 The Japanese Empire against China in 1937–1945 The United States Government tested effectiveness on US Naval recruits in a laboratory setting at The Great Lakes Naval Base, June 3, 1945. The 2 December 1943 air raid on Bari destroyed an Allied stockpile of mustard gas on the SS John Harvey. Egypt against North Yemen in 1963–1967 Iraq against Kurds in the town of Halabja during the Halabja chemical attack Iraq against Iranians in 1983–1988 Possibly in Sudan against insurgents in the civil war, in 1995 and 1997. In the Iraq War, abandoned stockpiles of mustard gas shells were destroyed in the open air, and were used against Coalition forces in roadside bombs. By ISIS forces against Kurdish forces in Iraq in August 2015. By ISIS against another rebel group in the town of Mare' in 2015. According to Syrian State media, by ISIS against Syrian Army during the battle in Deir ez-Zor in 2016. In 1943, during World War II, a shipment of mustard gas from the US exploded aboard SS John Harvey that was bombed during an air raid in the harbor of Bari, Italy. Eighty-three of the 628 hospitalized victims who had been exposed to the mustard agent died. After WWII, stockpiled mustard gas was dumped by the British in the sea near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, resulting in many cases of burns among trawler crews. The use of toxic gases or other chemicals, including mustard gas, during warfare is known as chemical warfare, and this kind of warfare was prohibited by the Geneva Protocol of 1925, and also by the later Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. The latter agreement also prohibits the development, production, stockpiling, and sale of such weapons. In September 2012, a US official stated that the rebel militant group ISIS was manufacturing and using mustard gas in Syria and Iraq, which was allegedly confirmed by the group's head of chemical weapons development, Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, who has since been captured. Development of the first chemotherapy drug As early as 1919 it was known that mustard agent was a suppressor of hematopoiesis. In addition, autopsies performed on 75 soldiers who had died of mustard agent during World War I were done by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania who reported decreased