Foreign Ministers Agree To Arm Kurds In Iraq

EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels have agreed to arm Kurdish fighters battling Islamist militants in northern Iraq.

Prior to the meeting France, Germany, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands all said they were prepared to supply weapons to the Peshmerga forces.

It comes after Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond described Islamic State (IS) as a "terrible threat" and the UN designated the humanitarian situation in the country a "level three emergency".

The meeting of foreign ministers from the 28 EU nations, called by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, followed reports of thousands of Yazidi refugees stranded in the Sinjar Mountains.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister, said: "Iraq is on the brink of a true catastrophe. A million people in Iraq are fleeing their homes.

"In northern Iraq, in the Kurdish part, Yazidis and Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered."

Defence matters are normally the responsibility of member states, so the EU approval to send weapons is rare.

http://news.sky.com/story/1319364/foreign-ministers-agree-to-arm-kurds-in-iraq


Finally.

And it seems like the Sunnis and Shias might unite against the IS as well.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/iraqi-sunnis-open-backing-new-pm-201481513571299642.html

Sassy wrote:And it seems like the Sunnis and Shias might unite against the IS as well.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/iraqi-sunnis-open-backing-new-pm-201481513571299642.html

Astounding is it not Stassi, the world is reacting to a real genocide, even the Germans are warning they will not stand by and allow this to happen, showing Gaza backed by Hamas an Islamist group will never have any backing whilst they are aggressive and create constant conflict.

Live and learn girl, Hamas are the problem.

Am glad the world is waking up to taking on ISIS, and hope the people off Gaza do the same and thrown off the tyranny of Hamas

I did say the other night the people of Iraq have to place their ethnic and religious differences aside and if they do that, they will defeat ISIS, as they need to become united and fight as one or together.