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Showing posts with label Fighting ISIL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fighting ISIL. Show all posts
Monday, May 28, 2018

RCAF Griffons Still Busy Over Iraq

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By:  Chris Thatcher , Vertical Magazine  The battle for the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and an offensive in the Hawija pocket further south...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Canada Puts Hold on Kurdish Weapons Shipments

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By: Murray Brewster, CBC News  Kurdish security forces stand guard in their defensive position in Alton Kupri, on the outskirts of Irbil, ...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Future of CAF in Iraq in Limbo

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By: Vassy Kapelos, CBC News  Six months after it was suspended, Canada's advise and assist mission in northern Iraq remains in a state o...
Monday, February 19, 2018

On Target: Expanded role in Iraq doesn’t make sense for Canada

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By: Scott Taylor, The Chronicle Herald Last Thursday Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan emerged from a NATO conference in Brussels and hinted th...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Canada Suspends Aid to Iraq and Kurdish-Peshmerga

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By: David Pugliese, The National Post  Canada has suspended the assistance its special forces were providing to Iraqi security forces as Ira...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Does Threat of Iraq Civil War Endanger Canadian Special Forces?

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By: David Pugliese, The Ottawa Citizen  Is civil war looming in Iraq? Iraqi Vice President Ayad Allawi seems to think that could be a possib...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

General Warns Canada's SOF Operating on 'Borrowed Time'

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The Canadian Press, The deputy commander of Canada’s special forces says his troops risk being run ragged after three years in Iraq, as wel...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

New Mission against ISIL won’t include sending troops to Syria: Sajjan

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By: Lee Berthiaume, The Globe and Mail  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has ruled out sending Canadian troops into Syria as the clock ticks d...

Canadian Elite Special Forces Sniper makes record-breaking kill shot in Iraq

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By: Robert Fife, The Globe and Mail A sniper with Canada’s elite special forces in Iraq has shattered the world record for the longest confi...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

CAF Expects Anti-ISIL Missing to be Extended

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The Canadian Press  OTTAWA -- The commander of the Canadian Forces mission in Iraq and Syria says he expects the government to extend the op...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

RCAF CP-140 Aurora Quietly Recalled from OP IMPACT

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By: Murray Brewster, CBC News  One of the Canadian air force spy planes assigned to the campaign against the Islamic State has been quietly ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Edmonton Helicopter Squadron Deploys to Iraq

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The Canadian Press  EDMONTON—The Canadian military has deployed 60 members of an Edmonton-based helicopter squadron to Iraq as part of Opera...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Canada Extends OP IMPACT Until June 2017

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DND Press Release The Government of Canada remains strongly committed to defeating Da’esh and responding to the needs of people who have be...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Ottawa Appears Likely to Extend Military Mission in Iraq

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By: Bruce Campion-Smith, Toronto Star Ottawa appears likely to extend Canada’s military deployment in Iraq by several months as the fight fo...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Operation IMPACT Long Range Patrol surpasses 700 missions

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By: Major Paul Doucette, Joint Task Force- Iraq Public Affairs Officer Joint Task Force Iraq’s Long Range Patrol Detachment reached a major ...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Taylor: Canada’s Actions in Iraq are Sending Mixed Messages

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By: Scott Taylor, The Chronicle Herald  From 2002 to 2014 the Canadian military had one primary mission and a singular focus and that was, o...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Canada's Future in Iraq Uncertain

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By: Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press ERBIL, Iraq — A baby's cry pierces the din as dozens of people wait to see a doctor or nurse at w...

Canadian Forces Studying Options for Potential Syrian Deployment

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By: Matthew Fisher, The National Post The Canadian military has begun to study options for an operation in Syria, for the Liberal government...
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

CAF Special Forces Monitor ISIL Near Syrian border

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By:  Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press ERBIL, Iraq — Canadian special forces have shifted their operations in northern Iraq to put pressu...