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Mar 13, 2026 2:02 AM
wadeye
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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4gqjyk0vx3t
spangolio
that's a sacrifice he is willing to make. He is the most hated man in France, for so many reasons.
TheLastSpaceman
Corrodias
Sorry, what are French troops doing in or near Iraq?
Hexidimentional
un peacekeeping forces are still cleaning up bush's war
BarracksLawyerESQ
I was a medevac flight paramedic there a few years ago.
French had intel, logistics, and kinetic assets at Erbil.
I'd assume it's much of the same today
kingbudo101
has to do with combating ISIS and other counter terrorism operations. been there since 2014
wadeye
Training Peshmerga troops - the US and Israel are yet again trying to outsource the actual fighting in Iran, and the Kurds are the current flavour of the month mercenaries.
TL;DR - Hoping to stage a Kurdish invasion of Iran from Iraq.
Mack1986
Sorry but thats a shit summary. The peshmerga are ethnic Kurds from Iraq and not the same as the hypothetical Iranian Kurds for an "invasion" into Iran. Western govs have been working with the peshawar since 2003 since the Iraq kurds are semi autonomous. They got fucked in 91 and were a huge hemp in the fight against ISIS