Germany to send Iraqi Kurds e**ugh ******* for 4,000 fighters
 

By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will send e**ugh ******* to arm 4,000 Kurdish fighters in **rthern Iraq battling against Islamic State (IS) insurgents, whose advances threaten to destabilize the Middle East, the defense minister said on Sunday. "The ******* delivery is e**ugh to supply a brigade of 4,000 soldiers," said Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen. Breaking with a post-war policy of **t sending arms to conflict zones, Chancellor Angela Merkel says **rthern Iraq is an "exception" because of the nature of Islamic State's violence. "The lives of millions of people, the stability of Iraq and the whole region and ... due to the high number of foreign fighters, our security in Germany and Europe are being threatened," read a government statement after Merkel met some of her ministers to discuss details of the aid to the Kurds.

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