{"id":181,"date":"2014-12-25T07:47:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T07:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=181"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:38:37","slug":"isis-launches-new-chlorine-gas-attack-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/isis-launches-new-chlorine-gas-attack-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS \u2018launches new chlorine gas attack\u2019 in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State militants have reportedly shelled a city in the western Iraqi province of Anbar with chlorine gas-imbued missiles, media reports citing security sources say. The attack is said to have targeted a district with trapped and starving civilians.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that Islamic State (IS\/ISIS\/ISIL) jihadists are reported to be using chemicals against people, as Iraq previously <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/198796-isis-chlorine-attack-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> a chlorine gas attack against security forces dating September 15.<\/p>\n<p>This time, however, the attack could have targeted civilians besieged by the militants.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n\u201cThe ISIL terrorists bombarded Baghdadi district of western Anbar province with mortar shells loaded with chlorine gas,\u201d<\/em> IraqiNews.com reported late on Wednesday, citing an unnamed security official.<\/p>\n<p>According to Press TV, the attack took place in the city of Hit, which lies to the northwest of the provincial capital of Ramadi and has come under constant shelling.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports described the situation in the city\u2019s district as dire.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBaghdadi district suffers from lack of food staff, medical supplies and milk for children which caused death for four children,\u201d<\/em> the security source said, adding that the people are also suffering from water shortages due to ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>The militants reportedly stopped local water pumps and positioned snipers to prevent authorities from entering the area to fix them.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, the Islamic State also claimed to have shot down a Jordanian Air Force jet with an anti-aircraft missile over eastern Syria. While Jordan has confirmed a pilot was captured by the militants, the US military\u2019s Central Command has denied that the plane was downed by ISIS, citing its own evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis article was originally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/217507-isis-chlorine-attack-anbar\/\" target=\"_blank\">RT<\/a>\u00a0website\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State militants have reportedly shelled a city in the western Iraqi province of Anbar with chlorine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[73,4,14,5],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-chemical-attack","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-military"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ISIS-Attack.jpg?fit=634%2C396&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-2V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}