claim: "the obama administration is refusing to directly arm the kurds."
author: ted cruz
evidence_1: sep 21, 2016 ... washington — the obama administration is weighing a military plan to  directly arm syrian kurdish fighters combating the islamic state, ...
evidence_2: jun 29, 2015 ... washington -- president barack obama's strategy for combating the extremist  ... would have allowed the administration to directly ship weapons to the kurds. ...  “directly arming the kurds would cause problems there and ...
evidence_3: feb 3, 2017 ... trump scrapped obama's plan to arm kurdish forces for raqqa ... the obama  administration spent months drawing up the plan to defeat isis ...
evidence_4: may 18, 2017 ... flynn rejected obama's offer to arm syrian kurds, something turkey would ...  washington (cnn) the obama administration wanted the incoming trump ...  flynn's firm was not compensated directly by the turkish government.
evidence_5: nov 17, 2015 ... royce said the obama administration refuses to directly arm the kurds because " the shia that run the government in baghdad object to that.