Kurdish Peshmerga fighters undergo training by British soldiers at a shooting range in Arbil

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters undergo training by British soldiers at a shooting range in Arbil, in Iraq’s northern autonomous Kurdistan region November 5, 2014. Britain will boost the number of its army trainers in Iraq in the coming weeks to support the Iraqi armed forces’ battle against Islamic State militants, the British defense secretary said on a visit to Baghdad on Wednesday. Britain said last month it had deployed a team of trainers to Iraq to help Kurdish peshmerga fighters maintain and use heavy machineguns against the radical militants who have taken over much of Iraq and Syria in a ruthless military onslaught. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ – Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY) – RTR4CZDU