US airdrops 50-tons of ammunition for M-16s and AK-47 to Syrian fighters

US Military has airdropped 50 tons of supplies like ammunition for M-16s and AK-47s into Al-Hasakah province which is home to Syrian Kurds, Arabs and a minority Assyrian community. The items also included arms ammo and grenades. This is consequent to the shift in focus of Pentagon from training rebel fighters to equipping them.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 13 October 2015.

The airdrop of arms and ammunition comes two days after the Defense Department announced it was effectively ending its current training program. The airdrop was made by four C-17 transport aircraft and all the 112 pallets reached friendly forces.
It was done as had been done for Kobani which is considered to be one of the few bright spots in the war against the Islamic State. The arms dropped by the US to Syrian Kurdish fighters, known as the YPG, resulted in successfully expelling ISIS from the Turkish-Syrian border town of Kobani.
This time, however, Syrian Kurds were not recipients of the U.S. airdrop but only Syrian Arabs who were fighting ISIS. This is because Syrian Kurds are seen as enemies by Turkey whle the US looks upon them as a NATO ally.
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Do the IS militants have access to chemical weapons?

The IS militants have proved by beheading of innocent US and British persons that they are a bloodthirsty lot and, it now seems that they have access to chemical weapons foxnews.com.

This is an inference that has been drawn from videos that depict dead people with wounds that would end indicate burning of facial muscles through contact with chemicals.
It is not yet established whether these have any link to the chemical weapons of ex-President Saddam Hussein of Iraq or of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria or whether the IS militants have made the weapons themselves by procuring the necessary chemicals.
The video show images of the dead Syrian Kurds with large areas of white, blistered skin apparently having been burned away. And, experts are of the opinion that the chemical weapons were used on July 12, in the village of Avidko, close to Kobani.

This is the Kurdish town on the Turkish border that is now the scene of fierce fighting between Kurds and Islamic State forces.