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.
High rates of female genital mutilation set Iraqi Kurdistan apart from the rest of the country. More than the men, it is […]
Gangs of destitute Iraqis pick through dump outside Erbil as the city, once a beacon of prosperity, struggles with economic and refugee […]
The plight of the Yazidis brought the United States back into the Iraq War when Obama moved to save them on Mount […]
Freiwillige retten ältere Menschen, die noch im Kriegsgebiet ausharren, aus deren frostigen Häusern.