IS launches mustard gas attack on US troops

23 September 2016 - 09:50
By ©The Daily Telegraph

Islamic State has used chemical weapons against US troops in the first such attack on American servicemen since World War1. The jihadists fired a rocket containing suspected mustard gas at an airbase in Qayyarah, south of Mosul, where the troops are supporting Iraqi forces.US officials said the soldiers took decontamination showers and were not suffering symptoms of exposure.

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