US: 7 European States to Arm Kurds in Iraq

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says seven European governments have agreed to join the United States in supplying weaponry to Kurdish forces battling Islamic State extremists in northern Iraq. A Pentagon statement Tuesday said Britain, Canada, Albania and Croatia will join Denmark, Italy and France in providing "urgently needed" arms and equipment to the Kurds. Islamic State jihadists overran large areas of northern and western Iraq in June. Earlier this month, they...

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