Baghdad: An Iraqi scientist said that he has helped the terrorist group the Islamic State (IS) in making chemical weapons. 

As per the report of Washington Post, Scientist has claimed that he supervised the manufacture of lethal toxins for the terror group for a period of 15 months.

Two years ago, In 2014, the IS seized Mosul, the country`s second largest city, and made their way through every government office, rounding up workers and managers who had not yet fled the city. geologist Suleiman al-Afari with Iraq`s Ministry of Industry and Minerals, was then offered a new job. He knew little about the subject, but he accepted the assignment nonetheless.

Afari, who was captured by IS and Kurdish soldiers in 2016 and is now a prisoner in Irbil, the capital of Iraq`s semiautonomous Kurdish region Said "Do I regret it? I don`t know if I`d use that word." He further added that they had become the government and we now worked for them... We wanted to work so we could get paid."

Afari, 52  described the IS’s successful attempts to make sulphur mustard - a first-generation chemical weapon that inflicted thousands of casualties during the World War I.