Kurdistan announces the use of mustard gas by ISIS in Iraq
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad- The Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs in Kurdistan announced, that ISIS militants have used mustard gas in the shelling against the Peshmerga forces north of Iraq, during the clashes that erupted in August.
The authority supervising the Kurdish armed forces in northern Iraq said in a statement, “Tests conducted on samples of blood taken from about 35 Kurdish fighters were attacked in the south-west of Erbil, along with tests of patients, showed evidence of the use of mustard gas.”
According to the German newspaper “Bild,” the German intelligence agency BND collected samples of blood from Kurds injured during clashes with the organization, asserting that the organization used mustard gas.