Kurds report more chlorine attacks, Iraq pauses Tikrit offensive

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https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QWw5tDnVJsDayz0.D27sFA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2015-03-16T202245Z_3_LYNXMPEB2F0B9_RTROPTP_2_MIDEAST-CRISIS-IRAQ.JPG (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/iraq-needs-more-airstrikes-dislodge-tikrit-officials-081448737.html)By Isabel Coles and Maggie Fick ARBIL/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq paused its Tikrit offensive on Monday and officials called for more air strikes against Islamic State militants, while an ******r said Kurdish forces sustained two more chlorine gas attacks by insurgents. General Aziz Waisi told journalists the insurgents used chlorine twice during a January offensive west of Mosul and once in a December attack on his military police brigade in the Sinjar mountain area. Waisi said a number of military police - he did **t say how many - were taken to hospital, where blood tests indicated they had inhaled chlorine gas released by the bombs.




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