The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region urged the United States to directly arm his forces battling Daesh (ISIS), AFP has reported.
Massud Barzani said that this was the preferred option, rather than weapons passing through the federal government in Baghdad.
The Kurdish leader has been in Washington for a week lobbying for support. He thanked President Barack Obama, but insisted his troops needed weapons directly.
Barzani said the central government had not kept to a deal agreed in 2007 between US, Iraqi and Kurdish commanders that Kurdistan's peshmerga militia receive its share of US military aid from Baghdad.
"We eventually ended up having the peshmerga not receiving a bullet or a piece of weaponry from Baghdad," Barzani told reporters.
