ISIS used chlorine gas as chemical weapon in Iraq, claims Kurdistan
File photo of ISIS elements
(IraqiNews.com) Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government revealed on Saturday, that the ISIS organization used chlorine gas as a weapon against the Peshmerga forces in Iraq.
The Security Council of the region said in a statement reported by Reuters and followed by IraqiNews.com, “The analysis of soil and cloth samples of a suicide car bombing carried out by ISIS militants in January in northern Iraq showed that the samples contained levels of chlorine, which refers to the use of this material in a weaponized form.”
The Council added, “The analysis was conducted in a European Union-certified laboratory after the Kurdistan government sent soil samples to a partner country in the coalition led by the United States.”