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.
In the ruins of the Old City, residents who escape increasingly desperate militants are then faced with Iraqi troops suspicious of suicide […]
Overwhelmed doctors are prematurely releasing patients at risk of amputation or, worse, death.
The kidnapping of a successful Iraqi party organizer suggests the government is powerless against militias.
With fighting still ongoing on the other side of the river, some semblance of normality is slowly returning to eastern Mosul.