• A picture taken through a machine gun sight on Aug. 17 shows buildings that were damaged during fighting between Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and the Islamic State roup's militants in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, west of the city of Mosul. Jihadis occupying the Iraqi town of Sinjar are so close that Kurdish fighters can watch them without binoculars and battles are often fought with hand grenades. Yet the recapture of the nearby town — the ancestral hub of the Yazidi minority — remains a distant prospect. Islamic State was accused Tuesday of carrying out another chemical attack on Kurds in the area. | AFP-JIJI
    A picture taken through a machine gun sight on Aug. 17 shows buildings that were damaged during fighting between Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and the Islamic State roup's militants in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, west of the city of Mosul. Jihadis occupying the Iraqi town of Sinjar are so close that Kurdish fighters can watch them without binoculars and battles are often fought with hand grenades. Yet the recapture of the nearby town — the ancestral hub of the Yazidi minority — remains a distant prospect. Islamic State was accused Tuesday of carrying out another chemical attack on Kurds in the area. | AFP-JIJI

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IRBIL, IRAQ – Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday they suspected a homemade rocket fired by Islamic State at their peshmerga forces in northern Iraq contained chemical substances, accusing the Islamist insurgents of an increasing use of chemical weapons.

The Kurdistan Region’s Security Council (KRSC) said the attack had taken place along the front line north of Mosul on Aug. 31, and one peshmerga fighter was receiving treatment in hospital.

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