Tag: chemical weapons

Baghdad : An Iraqi scientist has claimed that he supervised the manufacture of lethal toxins for the Islamic State (IS) terror group for a period of 15 months, The Washington Post reported. In 2014, the IS seized Mosul, the country's second largest city, and made their way through every government office, rounding up workers and managers who had not yet fled the city and pressing them into service. Suleiman al-Afari, a geologist with Iraq's Ministry of Industry and Minerals, was then offered a new job. He knew little about the subject,...