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Showing posts with label Kurdish Peshmerga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kurdish Peshmerga. Show all posts
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, 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...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Future of Canada's Role in Iraq Still Uncertain

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By: David Pugliese, The Ottawa Citizen Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will travel to Rome and Brussels from February 13-15 to participate in...
Friday, December 22, 2017

CAF Plan to Arm Kurds On Hold

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By: David Pugliese, Defence Watch  During a Wednesday news conference with Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, I asked the minister a direct que...
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...
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...
Thursday, February 9, 2017

Iraqi Kurds to receive sniper rifles, anti-tank weapons, mortars from Canada

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By: David Pugliese, The National Post  Canada will provide long-range sniper rifles and anti-tank weapons to the Kurdish forces fighting the...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Battle for Mosul will shape Canada's ground commitment in Iraq

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Canadian special forces launch a mission from a base in Erbil, Iraq, on Nov. 14, 2016 (Murray Brewster/CBC) By: Murray Brewster, CBC New...
Monday, December 5, 2016

Canadian Weapons Arriving to Kurdish Fighters

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By: Scott Taylor The Chronicle Herald  It was with very little fanfare that Canada announced last week that the Iraqi government has finally...

Canadian veteran fighting ISIL has been arrested in Iraq, his mother says

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By: Stewart Bell,  Globe and Mail  TORONTO — A Canadian military veteran who has spent the past six months fighting ISIL alongside Kurdish f...
Monday, November 21, 2016

War Against ISIL Marches On as Canada, Allies Wonder What Trump will Ask of Them

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By: Murray Brewster, CBC News The night Donald Trump was elected, Canadian Brig.-Gen. Dave Anderson was at a reception hosted by the U.S. Em...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Plan to Arm the Kurds stalled by Iraqi government

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By: David Pugliese, Defence Watch  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in February that Canada would be providing the Kurds with lethal milit...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Vance: Canadian Special Forces have fired first at Islamic State

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By: Michelle Zilio, The Globe and Mail  The country’s top soldier says that Canadian troops have shot first at Islamic State forces in Ira...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Video Appears to Show Canadian Special Forces in Battle Against ISIL Near Mosul

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By: Ben Makuch , Vice News New video released last week shows Canadian special forces setting up a mobile anti-tank rocket atop a Kurdish ar...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Canadian Special Forces providing crucial support in Battle of Mosul

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By: Steven Chase, Globe and Mail  Canadian Armed Forces members are playing a modest but vital supporting role as the operation to retake Mo...
Monday, October 17, 2016

ISIL’s defeat in Mosul is now inevitable, Canadian generals say

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By: Matthew Fisher, National Post  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi went on state television early Monday to announce that the crucial b...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

General: Canadian Special Forces have been in Firefights with ISIS

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The Canadian Press  Information from a Technical Briefing from the Canadian Forces Canadian special forces troops are spending more time on...
Monday, September 26, 2016

Still no Canadian weapons for the Kurds – will the small arms ever be sent?

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By: David Pugliese, Defence Watch  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in February that Canada would be providing the Kurds with lethal milit...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

CTV Exclusive: Canadian-trained forces clearing the way to retake Mosul from ISIS

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Josh Dehaas , CTVNews.ca Writer Published Monday, August 15, 2016 10:00PM EDT  Exclusive: Canadian-trained forces clearing the way to retak...