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Middle East allies accuse Barack Obama and David Cameron of failing to show strategic leadership in fight against Islamic State

US blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons directly to Kurds to fight Islamic State



The United States has blocked attempts by its Middle East allies to fly heavy weapons directly to the Kurds fighting Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, The Telegraph has learnt.

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Some of America’s closest allies say President Barack Obama and other Western leaders, including David Cameron, are failing to show strategic leadership over the world’s gravest security crisis for decades. They now say they are willing to “go it alone” in supplying heavy weapons to the Kurds, even if means defying the Iraqi authorities and their American backers, who demand all weapons be channelled through Baghdad. More...


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