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Barzani heads to Washington today to meet with US commanders
5/2/15
Twilight News / Kurdish official said that the President of the Kurdistan region today go to America to meet with security chiefs.
The official said, for Twilight News, said that Barzani will discuss the fight Daash military aid in addition to the political situation in Iraq.
And provide the United States Kurdish Peshmerga forces with weapons and ammunition and trained within the framework of the international coalition to fight al Daash.
Peshmerga seen as the most effective on the ground to Washington and the international coalition forces in the war against the militants, who control large swathes of the territory of Iraq and Syria partner.
But the Kurdistan Region officials complain of weakness arming the Peshmerga of heavy weapons and hand and demanded that Washington and other countries to provide their forces out.
Kurdish officials say that al Daash outperform them where heavily armed militants seized in the summer of last year, billions of dollars worth of American weapons left behind by Iraqi soldiers when they fled before the advance of Daash the north of the country.
And seen the US Congress in a draft resolution to supply the Peshmerga fighters and Sunni tribal weapons directly without reference to the federal government in Baghdad.
And rushed Baghdad and Iraqi officials Shiites rule the country since 2003 to reject the project. They said that would divide the country.
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