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EU foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday to discuss plans to arm Iraq’s Kurds against an extremist insurgency.
Iraq Crisis: Arming Kurds On EU Agenda In Brussels
France and the US have already begun to supply weapons to the Kurds, whose Peshmerga fighters are trying to halt an advance by Islamic state militants.
On Thursday, iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki resigned and conceded power to Haider al-Abadi, deputy speaker of the Iraqi parliament.
The UN Says over a million Iraqis remain displaced from their homes.
Already a UN security council’s meeting this Friday is to approve a resolution threatening sanctions against any country, which finances or supports it.
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