Hopefully the Germans bring lots of equipment for the Kurds to use.
Germany to send training mission to Iraqi Kurds
The German government is going over plans to send troops to northern Iraq to train peshmerga in the fight against the self-fashioned "Islamic State." Such missions, however, can't always promise success.
""We must defeat this terror militia by military means," German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen recently told the mass-circulated Bild newspaper, with regard to Berlin's policy for combating the "Islamic State" (IS). That promise appears to have fallen on receptive ears, as Germany has pledged to deploy some 100 Bundeswehr soldiers in northern Iraq to offer support to peshmerga fighters.
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Germany to send training mission to Iraqi Kurds Germany DW.DE 12.12.2014
Germany to send training mission to Iraqi Kurds
The German government is going over plans to send troops to northern Iraq to train peshmerga in the fight against the self-fashioned "Islamic State." Such missions, however, can't always promise success.
""We must defeat this terror militia by military means," German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen recently told the mass-circulated Bild newspaper, with regard to Berlin's policy for combating the "Islamic State" (IS). That promise appears to have fallen on receptive ears, as Germany has pledged to deploy some 100 Bundeswehr soldiers in northern Iraq to offer support to peshmerga fighters.
Continue reading at:
Germany to send training mission to Iraqi Kurds Germany DW.DE 12.12.2014
