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Bee

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Whether we are wanted or not, we are trying, this is in addition to the air strikes the British have carried out.


A "specialist team" of 12 UK soldiers is training Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has said.
It said troops from the Yorkshire Regiment were training Iraqi Kurds to use UK-supplied heavy machine guns.
The soldiers are expected to spend a week in Irbil, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
Royal Air Force Tornado jets based in Cyprus have been flying combat missions over Iraq since September.
The UK training mission comes amid heavy fighting between Syrian Kurds and IS forces in the town of Kobane, in Syria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29586437
 

Heard this last night; did you know the leader of the Kurds is reported to be a woman..
 
No I didn't know that Viv, will have to look that up, thanks.
 

Bee said:
Whether we are wanted or not, we are trying, this is in addition to the air strikes the British have carried out.


A "specialist team" of 12 UK soldiers is training Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has said.
It said troops from the Yorkshire Regiment were training Iraqi Kurds to use UK-supplied heavy machine guns.
The soldiers are expected to spend a week in Irbil, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
Royal Air Force Tornado jets based in Cyprus have been flying combat missions over Iraq since September.
The UK training mission comes amid heavy fighting between Syrian Kurds and IS forces in the town of Kobane, in Syria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29586437
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No need to shout or the sarcastic tone....................shame we are out there at all especially as it seems our help is unwanted by some.
 
Davey Jones said:
WOW!!! All 12 of them ? And for a WHOLE week ?
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Yep with a crack force like ours they only need 12....

British Army soldiers have returned to Iraq to help Kurdish fighters repel Isil militants, five years after the UK’s combat operations ended in the country.

A specialist team of around 12 soldiers has flown to northern Iraq to train Kurdish troops to use heavy machine guns donated by Britain.

The soldiers, believed to be from the Cyprus-based 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, are based near the Kurdish capital of Erbil.

The Ministry of Defence said: “The Government has previously made clear its intention to provide training to the Peshmerga as part of the continued effort to assist in the fight against Isil.

"The Defence Secretary has approved the deployment of a small specialist team of non-combat Army trainers which is now in the Erbil area providing instruction on operating, employing and maintaining the heavy machine guns that were gifted by the UK last month."

Britain last month gave £1.6 million of arms including heavy machine guns and half a million rounds of ammunition to Kurdish forces battling Isil, also known as Islamic State or Isis militants in northern Iraq.
The soldiers will spend around a week teaching the Kurds how to “safely maintain, operate and deploy” the .50 calibre weapons.
Kurdish troops say there are also British SAS troops helping them to fight back Isil forces.
British troops invaded Iraq in March 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein. The last combat troops left in April 2009, with a small number staying on to train Iraqi forces until 2011.
 
12 soldiers may well represent a quarter of the army we have left. :( All the services have been run down here over the last 10 years. The 'Top Brass' have been decrying this state of affairs for ages.
Anyway, these 12 are all from Yorkshire 'God's Own Country' [as they like to say, we don't all agree.]So, 12 will be quite enough.
 

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