{"id":58773,"date":"2015-03-17T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58773"},"modified":"2015-03-17T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T15:36:17","slug":"chemical-weapons-used-in-battle-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58773","title":{"rendered":"Chemical weapons used in battle against ISIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that folks in Syria say that the Syrian government used chlorine gas against rebels in Syria yesterday;<\/p>\n

Two activist groups – the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees – said the attack late on Monday night targeted the town of Sarmin in northwestern Idlib province.<\/p>\n

They said that apart from killing six, dozens of people suffered from breathing difficulties in the gas attack. The two groups collect their data from a network of activists on the ground.<\/p>\n

A military official in the capital, Damascus, denied the claim and blamed rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad for the attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Kurds are also accusing ISIS of two other chemical attacks on their forces, according to another Associated Press<\/a> report;<\/p>\n

Kurdish officials have offered footage of the aftermath of the Dec. 26 attack, which shows fighters coughing and pouring water over their heads after another suicide truck bombing that authorities say wounded some 60 men.<\/p>\n

“I put a wet scarf on my face because when I saw the gas, I felt it,” said Capt. Mohammad Sewdin, who leads the Kurdish special forces unit targeted in the December attack. “I was afraid it might be something like (chemical weapons). So I told my men to do the same.”<\/p>\n

Sewdin told The Associated Press he was temporarily blinded for six hours after the attack and coughed up blood. He and others were hospitalized.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Kurdistan Region Security Council offered video and lab results it said proved the Islamic State group used chlorine in the Jan. 23 suicide truck bomb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is so much false information coming out of that war, I don’t know whether either of the stories are true, but folks in that region seem to place no value on human lives, even their own, and since chemical warfare is the most barbaric and cowardly form of warfare, I wouldn’t doubt it. But the US should really focus on verifying or disproving these allegations before they send more troops into that type of indiscriminate warfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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