WASHINGTON—According to reports, ISIS militants likely used mustard agent in an attack earlier this week on Kurdish forces in Iraq, senior U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
From CBS: The official told CBS News that the Pentagon has deemed credible reports that ISIS launched a “crude attack using chemical weapons” against Kurdish fighters.
A German Defense Ministry statement on Thursday said some 60 Kurdish fighters suffered from breathing difficulties as a result of the attack. It says none of the German soldiers training the Kurds in the area 37 miles southwest of the city of Irbil were hurt or in danger.
Kurdish security official Hiwa Qaraji told The Associated Press that ISIS militants attacked the Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, near the town of Makhmour late Wednesday, wounding four.
U.S. believes Islamic State used mustard agent, a banned chemical weapon, on Kurdish forces in Iraq http://t.co/thCzmbmkgu
— WSJ Breaking News (@WSJbreakingnews) August 13, 2015
