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Showing posts with label Special Forces in Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Special Forces in Iraq. Show all posts
Friday, October 12, 2018

CAF Drawing up plans to Extend Iraq Mission

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Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press OTTAWA -- The Canadian military is drawing up options to extend its mission in Iraq even as growing pol...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Canada's Next Mission in Iraq - Awaiting Iraqi Approval

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By: Lee Berthiaume, Global News  OTTAWA – Canada is waiting for the Iraqi government to sign off before launching the next phase of its fi...
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...
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...
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, February 9, 2018

Canadian Bomb Experts help Iraqis clean up after fight with Daesh

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By:  BRUCE CAMPION-SMITH , Toronto Star OTTAWA—A mission by Canadian military explosives experts in Iraq has been extended to help the count...
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...

Canadian Special Forces Dismantling Chemical Weapons in Iraq

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By: Robert Fife, The Globe and Mail  Canadian special forces have played a central role in hunting down, detecting and dismantling stockpile...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Canada's Iraq Mission Extended until 2019 at Cost of $371 million

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By: David Pugliese, Defence Watch  The Liberal government has extended Canada’s military mission in Iraq for almost another two years. The m...
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

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 13, 2017

Sajjan: Canada Committed to Iraq for the Long-Haul; Afghanistan Training Mission a Possibility

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Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press HALIFAX — The federal government is considering a NATO request to send police trainers to Afghanistan,...
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, February 28, 2017

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...