Daesh used mustard gas against Peshmerga in Iraq: Kurdistan govt.
The Takfiri Daesh terrorists used mustard gas against Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq during clashes in August, says the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs in Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
The ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that the Daesh militants fired mortar rounds containing mustard gas at Kurdish fighters in an attack southwest of the regional capital, Erbil.
The statement added that blood samples taken from approximately 35 Kurdish fighters exposed in the attack, along with an examination of injuries, showed “signatures of sulfur mustard.”
The ministry, which oversees Kurdish forces, did not, however, provide further information as to whether any of the Peshmerga fighters had died as a result of the attack or how severely they were wounded.
Last month, Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, also known as the BND, said it collected evidence that the Takfiri group had used mustard gas against Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency reportedly reached the conclusion after collecting and examining blood samples from Kurds injured in clashes with Daesh.
Mustard gas, which can form large blisters on exposed skin and in the lungs, is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, which is an arms treaty intended to stop the use of chemical weapons.
The statement is a further testimony that Daesh has a stockpile of chemical weapons inside Iraq.
The Takfiri terrorist group, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria, has been accused of using chemical weapons in the two Arab countries.
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