Tag Archives: MUSTARD GAS
Top Iraqi Kurdish official: ISIS deployed drones with mustard gas
ISIS has deployed drones strapped with explosives, long-range artillery shells filled with chlorine and mustard gas and highly effective snipers, a top Iraqi Kurdish security official told Reuters in an interview on Sunday. Masrour Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional
ISIS ‘use mustard gas’ in Deir Ezzor airport attack
ISIS militants attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor that borders Iraq, state media said on late Monday. Syrian state media did not disclose how
Samples confirm ISIS used mustard gas in Iraq
ISIS militants attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gas last year, the first known use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a diplomat said, based on tests by the global chemical weapons watchdog. A
U.N. probe zeroes in on five Syria chemical weapons cases
A U.N. investigative team has zeroed in on five potential cases of serious chemical weapons use in Syria but has yet to identify the perpetrators, according to its first report released Friday. The Joint Investigative Mechanism was established by the
Iraq’s Kurdistan: ISIS used mustard gas in attack
Blood tests show the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)used mustard agent in an attack on Kurdish peshmerga forces in August, the autonomous Iraqi region’s government said Thursday. “The results of the tests on blood samples from 35 Kurdish
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