Chemical security

Ex-FBI Agent: Daesh Not Only Group That 'Has Access to Chemical Weapons'

The Kurdish People's Protection Units recently reported that Daesh used chemical weapons in an attack on residential quarters in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

The footage released allegedly depicted a cloud of yellow phosphorus, an extremely toxic substance that causes serious harm to humans and is not allowed for use in civilian areas.

The People's Protection Units named several Islamist groups, which may be responsible for the attack, but neither Daesh nor Al-Nusra Front was among them.

Earlier, US intelligence services acknowledged that Daesh may have access to chemical weapons, but former FBI agent Coleen Rowley assumed that the same can be said of other radical groups in the region, Russia Today reported.