URGENT: US official confirms unprecedented military cooperation between Iraqi, Kurdish Forces with US facilitation

(IraqiNews.com) On Saturday, an American official, revealed to Reuters News Agency that the Iraqi government delivered a plane loaded with ammunition to Kurdish Peshmerga forces in the Kurdistan region to repel the militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, ISIL. The official considered this act as unprecedented step of military cooperation between Kurdish forces and Iraqi forces, stressing that the American administration is working with the Iraqi government to meet the demands of the region of small weapons and ammunition.

Reuters quoted the official saying that “the Iraqi government delivered a plane loaded with ammunition for the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in the Kurdistan region in the unprecedented step of military cooperation between the Kurdish forces and Iraqi forces to help the Peshmerga to repel the militants of ISIL,” explaining that “the Iraqi security forces delivered ammunition, mostly weapons in a small cargo plane C-130 to Erbil. ”

The official, who asked not to be named, said: “This is unprecedented,” pointing out that “the developments that have occurred during the past few days re-formulated this issue. We have seen unprecedented cooperation between Baghdad and Erbil on the chase of ISIL, not only through words, but also with regard to the actual support.”