{"id":47414,"date":"2014-09-09T14:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=431f8ea3fc0293d1d1423249c22aeb38"},"modified":"2014-09-09T14:21:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:21:40","slug":"news-story-uk-gifts-arms-and-ammunition-to-kurdish-regional-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=47414","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK gifts arms and ammunition to Kurdish regional government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>At the request of the government of Iraq to provide urgent military support, the UK will supply heavy machine guns and nearly half-a-million rounds of ammunition. This will give the Kurdish Peshmerga forces additional firepower in order to help them defend the front line, protect civilians and push back <abbr title=\"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\">ISIL<\/abbr> advances.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><abbr title=\"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\">ISIL<\/abbr> militants are guilty of shocking brutality. So I am pleased that we will supply weapons to the Kurdish forces who are at the front line of combating their violent extremism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We have already provided body armour and other protective equipment as well as ammunition from our partners; these weapons will help the Kurdish forces in taking the fight to these barbaric terrorists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The UK is committed to assisting the government of Iraq by alleviating the humanitarian suffering of those Iraqis targeted by <abbr title=\"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\">ISIL<\/abbr> terrorists; promoting an inclusive, sovereign and democratic Iraq that can push back on <abbr title=\"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\">ISIL<\/abbr> advances and restore stability and security across the country. <\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr> continues to transport military equipment and ammunition on behalf of other countries as well as providing UK non-lethal military equipment including body armour, helmets and ration packs. Today a flight flew into Erbil in northern Iraq carrying the latest support package. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK provides further support to Kurdish regional forces battling ISIL insurgents in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}