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U.S. Drops Weapons, Aid to Kurds Fighting Islamic State in Kobane, Syria
(Washington Post) Karen DeYoung - U.S. aircraft dropped weapons and medical supplies on Sunday to besieged Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State in the Syrian border town of Kobane. The weapons and ammunition dropped were supplied by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. Iraq's Kurdish military force uses mostly Soviet-era Russian weapons, which the U.S. arranged last summer to be supplied by former Soviet-bloc countries now in NATO.