Attacks on Sinjar highlight dangers posed by group’s homemade gas-filled weapons with Kurdish fighters ill-equipped to protect themselves.
Middle East Eye: Poisonous war – Low-tech chemical rockets become growing IS threat

Attacks on Sinjar highlight dangers posed by group’s homemade gas-filled weapons with Kurdish fighters ill-equipped to protect themselves.
ISIS used a sinkhole outside Mosul to dispose of its victims, a place already used by Saddam Hussein to make people disappear.
Families in liberated parts of Mosul are still exposed to the dangers of war, but fear their suffering will be even worse […]
Months of battling ISIL in the Yazidi city has turned these fresh-face recruits into hardened warriors.
As thousands of the country’s refugees risk their lives every day to enter Europe, Kobani’s residents are moving the other way, leaving […]