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Showing posts with label Canada in Syria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada in Syria. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Canadian Generals Defend Strategy for Defeating ISIL

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By: The Canadian Press PERSIAN GULF — Two senior Canadian generals have defended the current strategy for defeating Daesh (also known as ISI...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

RCAF Active over Syria; Canada Waiting on US before Extending OP IMPACT

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By: Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press PERSIAN GULF – Canadian military personnel involved in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq an...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

What Happens After Mosul?

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By: Matthew Fisher, Ottawa Citizen  ASSOCIATED PRESS - Kurdish security forces overlook Islamic State-controlled villages east of the city...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

RCAF Targets ISIS Positions in Syria and Iraq

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In a press release on it's OP IMPACT webpage, DND announced that the RCAF was active over the skies of Syria and Iraq earlier this week....
Monday, November 16, 2015

Opinion: Canada Should Keep CF-18's in Iraq

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If you have not already discovered my personal bias from reading this blog when it comes to the military, and the use of force - well this p...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Defence Minister's Marching Orders - Top Priority: End RCAF Operations in Iraq and Syria

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Written by The Canadian Press, published by CBCNews Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given new defence minister his marching orders — and ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Canada in Iraq: No Timeline for Air Task Force Iraq

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So while the Liberal Government promised to end Canada's participation in the Coalition bombings of ISIS in Iraq and Syria - no timeline...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Harjit Sajjan: New Minister of Defence

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On Wednesday, Canada's new Defence Minister was announced. For the first time since Gordon O'Connor, the Defence Minister is a forme...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Canada in Iraq: CDS Vance to Provide Trudeau with Options

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David Pugliese had  a good piece today in the Ottawa Citizen , discussing Canada's possible future role in Iraq against the Islamic St...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Canada in Syria: No Coalition Cooperation with Russia

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U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday the U.S.-led coalition has not agreed to cooperate with Russia in the fight against the I...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Canada in Iraq: September RCAF Airstrikes Against ISIS

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It was a busier start to September for the RCAF CF-18's in Iraq than August was.  The six CF-18's were deployed on twenty airstrike...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Harper Claims F-35s Needed to Defeat ISIS

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Over the weekend the F-35 debate was brought into the 2015 Canadian election. Justin Trudeau said that the Liberal Party would scrap the pla...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

RCAF continues to strike ISIS in Syria and Iraq

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DND announced today that Two RCAF CF-18 Hornet jets successfully led their third airstrike against ISIS in Syria. Using precision guided mun...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

RCAF surpasses 1000 sorties against ISIS and exceeds 100 Airstrikes

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Yesterday DND announced that the RCAF has recently reached two milestones in the coalition campaign against ISIS. RCAF CF-18 Hornets pre...
Monday, June 8, 2015

x15 RCAF CF-18 Airstrikes Against ISIS in Iraq and Syria

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4 June 2015 On 4 June 2015, while taking part in coalition operations in support of Iraqi security forces, CF-18 Hornets successfully str...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

RCAF Bomb ISIS Target in Syria

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The Royal Canadian Air Force has bombed more ISIS targets in Syria. This is only the second time since the extention and expansion of Canada...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Canada in Syria: CF-18's Conduct First Strike in Syria

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DND today informed Canadians that two RCAF CF-18's conducted their first air strikes against ISIS in Syria. Two CF-18's  used prec...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Canada's Mission Costs Partly Revealed

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Following yesterday's announcement that the Conservative Government would classify OP IMPACT and OP REASSURANCE's budget as classifi...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Canada to begin Bombing Campaign in Syria

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Yesterday, after several hours of debate in the House of Commons in Ottawa, the Conservative majority voted in favour (142-129) to extend Ca...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Canada in Syria: Correcting Minister Kenney's Comments

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I posted last week - as many other news agencies posted, that the United States had pushed for Canada to join the air campaign in Syria beca...