Germany's Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen has visited the Kurdish region in northern Iraq as Berlin sends arms to help Kurdish fighters in the battle against ISIL forces.
Germany plans to arm 10,000 Kurdish fighters with 70 million euros worth of equipment.
This breaks a post-World II taboo on sending weapons to active conflict zones.
"We are involved with relief shipments and the airlift, but we know that this is not sufficient, much more is needed to get these thousands of people,…
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