Masks are rare in Iran, too, though they are occasionally used in drug and organized crime operations, said Omid Memarian, an Iranian journalist who is now an Iran expert at DAWN, a Washington-based organization focused on U.S. policy in the Middle East. He said that when he was arrested in 2005, no one, not even his interrogators, wore masks.

Since President Trump's return to office, images of masked federal agents carrying out immigration arrests have become a familiar — and for many Americans, deeply disturbing — sight. The Department of Homeland Security has endorsed the agents' right to ...

In an interesting twist, more civilians are buying something once limited to war zones. Tactical gas masks may not be on the shopping list for every Florida consumer, but the U.S. market for gas masks in 2024 was estimated at $2.3 billion. The global ...