ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Islamic State (ISIS) militants bombed liberated Bashir village with mustard gas Monday night, a Peshmerga official told Rudaw, adding that Shiite militia, known as Hashd al-Shaabi, are recently based in the village. "Earlier this evening, ISIS militants fired five mortar shells loaded with mustard gas at Bashir village which is now [protected] by Hashd al-Shaabi militants, wounding 13 militants. And our [Peshmerga] forces have entered the village to help them," Captain Qadir Najm, a Peshmerga official, told Rudaw. Wounded Hashd al-Shaabi militants were rushed to a nearby hospital in the area, Amjad added. Assan al-Husseini, a Shiite commander, told Rudaw that there "burn wounds on the bodies of our militants." Husseini added that "the type of burn wounds is the same as those wounded in another ISIS mustard gas shelling on Taza town," last month. When Bashir was still in the hands of ISIS militants last month, they bombed Taza with mustard gas. A mother with her daughter and more than 300 others were wounded. Some of them visited Baghdad and Turkey to seek treatment. Peshmerga forces cleared Bashir on Sunday of ISIS after were called in to liberate the village following several failed attempts by the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi forces to recapture the village.
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