Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Canada To Withdraw Jets From Iraq And Syria

This is definitely from the "well, THAT didn't take long" department.  Canadian Prime Minister-elect Justin Trudeau, in keeping a campaign promise, has already informed U.S. President Barack Obama that his country's fighter jets will be withdrawn from airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.  He did not give any specific timetable.  About 70 special forces troops sent by Canada to train Kurds in northern Iraq will remain until March 2016.  The jets had originally also been pledged to remain until then.

Regrettably, I could not find a Canadian source for this story, but it seems to have been covered elsewhere.  Read more at ABC News (where in this case, "A" stands for "Australian"), the International Business Times, Sputnik International, Yahoo News and BBC News.

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