Outgunned Kurds Beg U.S. For Weapons To Battle ISIS

Outgunned Kurds Beg U.S. For Weapons To Battle ISIS
A member of the Kurdish security forces stand guard atop a armored vehicle at Taza district, south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Iraq, Friday, June 20, 2014. Among rolling wheat fields with machine-gun fire rattling in the distance, Kurdish fighters patrol the new frontier of their autonomous region of northern Iraq, dozens of miles from their official border. In front of them are Islamic militants, behind them is the Kurds' newly captured prize, stretches of oil-rich territory. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)
A member of the Kurdish security forces stand guard atop a armored vehicle at Taza district, south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Iraq, Friday, June 20, 2014. Among rolling wheat fields with machine-gun fire rattling in the distance, Kurdish fighters patrol the new frontier of their autonomous region of northern Iraq, dozens of miles from their official border. In front of them are Islamic militants, behind them is the Kurds' newly captured prize, stretches of oil-rich territory. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

Thousands of people from Kurdistan’s boomtown Irbil are fleeing into the mountains as marauding Islamic militants set their sights on the state capital after storming into nearby towns.

The Kurdish forces, known as Peshmerga meaning "those who confront death," had bravely fought the forces of evil dictator Saddam Hussein to keep Kurdistan a semi-autonomous state within Iraq, according to The Washington Post.

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