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The United States State Department has approved the sale of $295.6 million worth of military equipment to Iraq for artillery and infantry Kurdish peshmerga units, a Pentagon agency said on Wednesday.
The equipment requested by the Iraqi government would outfit two peshmerga infantry brigades and two support artillery battalions, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement.
Congress was notified of the approval on Tuesday, and the notice does not mean the sale has been concluded, the agency said.
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Apr 20, 2017 01:23am
Quite a business!
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Apr 20, 2017 11:52am
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