The Obama administration is blocking allies in the Middle East from supplying heavy artillery directly to Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State (also called ISIS or ISIL), according to a news report.
"If the Americans and the West are not prepared to do anything serious about defeating ISIL, then we will have to find new ways of dealing with the threat," a senior Arab government official told
The Telegraph on Wednesday, using an alternative name for the terrorist group.
"With ISIL making ground all the time, we simply cannot afford to wait for Washington to wake up to the enormity of the threat we face."
Some allies told the Telegraph that President Barack Obama and other Western leaders, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, have not stepped up to assist them in defeating ISIS.
The allies now want to supply the heavy weapons directly to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, even though the United States had demanded that all such gear be channeled through Baghdad.
Many European countries have bought weapons to arm the Kurds, the Telegraph reports, but they have been blocked from getting them to the fighters by U.S. commanders.
"There is simply no strategic approach," a senior Arab Gulf official told the Telegraph.
"There is a lack of coordination in selecting targets, and there is no overall plan for defeating ISIL."
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