ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Americans are unanimous in supporting Kurdish Peshmerga forces, US Ambassador to Iraq Stuart E. Jones said in a meeting with Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani Wednesday.

According to a KRG statement, Jones, US Consul General in Erbil Joseph Pennington and several other US officials met with Barzani in a meeting on political and security issues in Iraq. Baghdad-Erbil diplomatic relations were also discussed, according to the statement.

The military campaign to overcome terrorism in the region, a potential Mosul operation and the Anbar province refugee crisis were among other subjects discussed in the meeting.

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