Britain Considering Arming, Training Kurdish Forces: PM Cameron

Britain Considering Arming, Training Kurdish Forces: PM Cameron

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is considering providing arms and training to Kurdish forces to help its fight against Islamic insurgents, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday.

Britain has so far carried out aid drops and surveillance and transported military supplies to Kurdish regional forces allied with the Baghdad central government.

Other European countries, including Germany, France and Italy have already agreed to send Kurdish forces a quantity of light weapons to use against the militants who have swept into northern Iraq.

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