Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani today welcomed a United States Congressional Delegation that included Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, and senators Shelley Moore Capito, Cory Gardner, Steve Daines, David Perdue, Thom Tillis, and Ben Sasse.

The US senators praised the brave role of the Kurdistan peshmerga in the fight against the ISIS terrorists, and they reiterated their country’s commitment to support the KRG and the peshmerga forces. They said they are in Kurdistan to hear President Barzani’s views on the political and security challenges facing the region.

President Barzani thanked the United States government and its people for standing by the KRG in the fight against the ISIS terrorists. The President said that, with the support of friends and the coalition countries, peshmerga forces have be able to take the fight to the terrorists and have broken their myth of invincibility. He also praised the successes of the Iraqi security forces in the city of Tikrit in recent days.

On relations between Baghdad and Erbil, President Barzani told the US senators that he hopes the recently reached deal between the two sides holds and the outstanding issues are resolved.