Double blow for IS, reports 'Times'

March 10, 2016 15:23

'Islamic State has suffered a double blow with the capture of its chemical weapons chief and the reported death of a notorious Chechen commander,' reports Catherine Philp in The Times, London.

US officials revealed yesterday.that Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, who once worked for Saddam Hussein's military industrialisation authority,where he specialised in chemical and biological weapons, was caught last month in a secretive raid by United States special forces in northern Iraq,' she reports here (for subscribers only).

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