ISIS have shelled a Kurdish-controlled village in Northern Iraq using “poisonous substances” according to a Kurdish official. Referring toan attack on the village of Taza, Kirkuk province governor Najmuddin Kareem told reporters: “There were poisonous substances in these shells. We don’t know what” A Syrian Kurdish group also reported that Islamist opposition fighters had used yellow phosphorous in a chemical attack on a mainly Kurdish residential district in the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday. RT reports: More than 40 people suffered from partial chocking and skin irritation after mortar shells and Katyusha rockets filled with the “poisonous substances” exploded in the mainly Shia Turkmen village, which is located south of the oil city of Kirkuk, in a region under Kurdish control. A total of 24 shells and rockets were fired into the village from IS positions in the nearby Bashir area, Kurdish peshmerga forces commander Wasta Rasul said. It comes just one day after the Kurdish militia group YPG stated that Islamist opposition fighters used yellow phosphorous in a chemical attack on the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday. Meanwhile, US aircraft have begun targeting IS’ chemical weapons sites near Mosul, Iraq. It comes after an initial round of airstrikes aimed at diminishing the [...]