(Tasnim) – Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) militants have reportedly used poisonous gas in an attack on a Syrian military airbase located in Deir ez-Zor, the largest city in the eastern part of the country, RIA Novosti cited a military source as saying early on Tuesday.
“The Daesh militants attacked the military airfield in Deir ez-Zor with shells containing a poisonous chemical substance. The defenders of the airbase have reported that a number of soldiers were choking,” the source said, as reported by Russia Today.
This latest report adds weight to previous evidence implicating Daesh in using various forms of poisonous gas to attack targets.
Kurdish deputies in the Turkish parliament have previously accused Turkey of supplying Daesh and other militant groups inside Syria with chemical weapons to fight the Syrian government.
In an interview with RT, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia said that Turkey had provided a clear transit…
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