Possible Trump VP Sen. Rubio visited Kurdistan this week

US Senator Marco Rubio visited the Kurdistan Region this week as part of a Middle East trip to evaluate the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS). 

"ISIS cannot be allowed to continue to control vast swaths of land in which they not only commit barbarities but also train and plan attacks against the US and our allies," Rubio said in a statement. 

Rubio met with the Chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council Masrour Barzani on Wednesday. Barzani said on his official Twitter account that the two men had a good dialogue about the future of US-Kurdistan relations, the ongoing war against ISIS and the planned Mosul offensive. 

Barzani reportedly told Rubio that Iraq is falling apart and that the Kurds have done what they can to hold it together. 

The Republicans have long advocated stronger US support of the Kurds in their fight against ISIS and argue that the United States should arm the Kurdistan Region directly.

Rubio, a Republican Senator to Florida, made his trip as Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee for president and now finds Rubio a possible candidate for vice president. "I would certainly consider him [as my Vice President] but we do have a lot of candidates I think would be very good," Trump told Fox News.