A mother reacts as her daughter Ranmea is treated for possible exposure to chemical weapons agents in a hospital west of Irbil, Iraq. They described three separate attacks with rockets carrying gas over the past week on neighborhoods in eastern Mosul recaptured by government forces. Iraqi authorities, unlikely to want to create mass panic in the city, have denied that suspected chemical attacks have taken place. In the room next to several of the chemical weapons attack victims were two men injured in an airstrike. Islamic State militants had come to their home in Mosul’s Mamoun neighborhood to use their roof as a sniper point, said their cousin Thaer Ahmed, 27.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2017 15:29 UTC