Germany To Send Arms To Iraqi Kurds, Bundestag Debates

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 01: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and Vice Chancellor and Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel follow debates after she gave a government declaration to announce her government's decision to send arms to Iraqi Kurdish forces at the Bundestag on September 1, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. Germany will furnish Kurdish peshmerga troops with anti-tank weapons, machine guns, hand grenades, assault rifles and other military hardware with a total value of EUR 70 million to help them push back ISIS separatists. The German government does not need Bundestag support to send the weapons. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)