April 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department has approved the possible foreign military sale of infantry and artillery supplies for Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq.
If approved by Congress, the equipment will be sold to the government of Iraq and then supplied to the Kurdish fighters. Kurds in Iraq live in a semi-autonomous region of the country, and have been praised by several U.S. lawmakers as effective ground troops in the fight against the Islamic State, a terror group also referred to as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh.