Banned weapon used against Kurdish soldiers could gain come from Islamic State’s own sources or undeclared stockpiles in Syria,say expertsIslamic State militants attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gas in 2015, marking the first known spend of chemical weapons in the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein, and a diplomat has said after tests by the global chemical arms watchdog.
A source at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) told the Reuters news agency that laboratory tests had come back positive for the sulphur mustard,after around 35 Kurdish troops were sickened on the battlefield in August 2015.
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Source: theguardian.com