The director of US National Intelligence has warned that Islamic State (Isis) “would like to use chemical weapons” in an attack on America.
Speaking alongside Robert Hannigan, the head of GCHQ, at an annual global security conference in Munich on Friday, James Clapper said the terror group has procured chemical weapons, and appears to have used them numerous times in its war to create its self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
Both the Syrian regime and rebel groups have accused the others of usingchemical weapons during the five-year conflict. In August 2015, testimony from doctors and experts fuelled claims that civilians near the Syrian city of Aleppo had been victims of an Isis attack involving a chemical agent that was most likely mustard gas. Isis is also known to have seized chemical weapons factories in Iraq.
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