Takfiri terrorists used mustard gas against Iraq’s Kurdish fighters: Source

Test results show that the Daesh Takfiri group used mustard gas against Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq last year, says a source from the global chemical weapons watchdog.

The source at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Monday that laboratory tests confirmed that Daesh militants had used sulfur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas, on the battlefield last August, Reuters reported.

Blood samples were taken from almost 35 Kurdish fighters who became ill during their fight against Daesh militants southwest of Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, last August.

Mustard gas, which has few uses outside chemical warfare, can form large blisters on exposed skin and in the respiratory tract.

It is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, which is an arms treaty intended to stop the use of chemical weapons.

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