Britain has so far carried out aid drops and surveillance and
transported military supplies to Kurdish regional forces allied with
the Baghdad central government.
Other European countries, including Germany, France and Italy have
already agreed to send Kurdish forces a quantity of light weapons to
use against the militants who have swept into northern Iraq.
"We're prepared to do more and we're considering actively whether to
give them arms ourselves and whether we can more directly to train
Kurdish militia, we're already playing a role there but we can do
more," Cameron told ITV.
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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