The president of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan threatened to intervene to defend the Kurdis population caught up in the Syrian conflict.
The president, Massoud Barzani, called for a delegation to be sent to Syria to check if the Kurds in the North-East of Syria were being targeted. Barzani outlined that evidence of attacks on Kurds would warrant Iraqi Kurdistan to,
“make use of all its capabilities to defend the Kurdish women, children and citizens in western Kurdistan.”
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