Kurdish Official: IS Used Chlorine in 3 Attacks

A Kurdish military official said on Monday he had evidence Islamic State militants have used chlorine as a chemical weapon against peshmerga forces three times in northern Iraq. General Aziz Waisi, who said his forces were exposed to the chemical, said the insurgents had used chlorine in a December attack in the Sinjar area and in two others in January west of Mosul. The two earlier purported chemical weapon assaults reportedly resemble one claimed Saturday by Kurdish officials who say...

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