Britain appoints security envoy to Kurdish regions in Iraq

Britain has appointed a security envoy to Iraq’s Kurdistan region to bolster efforts to defeat Islamic State militants reports the Associated Press.

The Prime Minister’s office, on Sunday, said  the government would be sending night vision equipment, body armour and other non-lethal military gear to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.

The Defence Secretary Philip Hammond added that the Royal Air Force would begin to ship ammunition and weapons of types used by the Kurdish forces.

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