WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is directly supplying weapons to Peshmerga fighters from Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region to help them fight Sunni militants, in a deepening of America's military involvement in Iraq, U.S. officials said on Monday.
The Kurdish fighters are struggling to stem advances by militants from the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot.
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