{"id":24212,"date":"2017-03-11T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T09:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=24212"},"modified":"2017-03-11T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T09:43:28","slug":"iraq-says-no-evidence-of-chemical-weapons-attacks-in-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/iraq-says-no-evidence-of-chemical-weapons-attacks-in-mosul.html","title":{"rendered":"Iraq says no evidence\u00a0of chemical weapons attacks in Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Iraq says no evidence&nbsp;of chemical weapons attacks in Mosul<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Iraq says no evidence&nbsp;of chemical weapons attacks in Mosul:<\/strong>&#8211; Iraqi U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim said on Friday there was &quot;no evidence&quot; that Islamic State had used chemical weapons in Mosul, where the militants are fighting off an offensive by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Alhakim said he spoke with officials in Baghdad at midday on Friday and &quot;there was really no evidence that Daesh has used this chemical weapon.&quot; Daesh is another name for Islamic State.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The United Nations said last Saturday that 12 people, including women and children, had been treated for possible exposure to chemical weapons agents in Mosul since March 1.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The United Nations Security Council was briefed behind closed doors on the situation in Mosul on Friday by U.N. aid chief Stephen O&#39;Brien and U.N. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Kim Won-soo.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">British U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, president of the council for March, said the 15-member body believed that Iraq&#39;s investigation into possible chemical weapons attacks was ongoing.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;We expressed concern over reports of possible use of chemical weapons by Daesh and we look forward to the results of Iraq&#39;s investigation into those allegations,&quot; Rycroft told reporters after the briefing.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-chemicalweapons-idUSKBN16H2KL<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/iraq-says-no-evidence-of-chemical-weapons-attacks-in-mosul.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq says no evidence&nbsp;of chemical weapons attacks in Mosul Iraq says no evidence&nbsp;of chemical weapons attacks in Mosul:&#8211; Iraqi U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim said on Friday there was &quot;no evidence&quot; that Islamic State had used chemical weapons in Mosul, where the militants are fighting off an offensive by U.S.-backed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[15027,15028,15030,15031,15029,3299],"class_list":["post-24212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-iraq-says-no-evidence-of-chemical-weapons-attacks-in-mosul","tag-kim-won","tag-matthew-rycroft","tag-mohamed-ali-alhakim","tag-soo","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}