AhlulBayt News Agency - Iraqi Kurdistan’s Peshmerga army forces hit a chemical weapons facility for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) radical group, an official said on Sunday.
Peshmerga officer Hadi Darwari said their forces bombed a main chemical weapons facility held by ISIS in northern Iraq.
“The Peshmerga army hit the facility with dozens of heavy artillery shells. Huge explosions followed the bombardment,” Darwari said.
The targeted chemical facility is located in the Qabousiyah district near Shingal (Sinjar) in northwestern Iraq.
The Peshmerga officer said that their troops are preparing to launch similar attacks on other ISIS weapons storage centers that are believed to contain chemical agents, Kurdish news agency reported.
“The strategic operations will continue to include the villages of Ta al-Khashar, Tal al-Qasab and Ain Fathi, where Daesh (ISIS) stores a large deal of heavy weapons, ammunitions and chemical agents,” he said.
This comes just two days after ISIS militants hit Taza Khurmatu town south of Kirkuk province with mustard gas, causing the injury of more than 400 people.
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14 March 2016 - 13:03
News ID: 740964
Iraqi Kurdistan’s Peshmerga army forces hit a chemical weapons facility for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) radical group, an official said on Sunday.
