OTTAWA – Canadian troops involved inside the six-year-old battle in opposition to ISIS hazard being caught within the midst of escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iraq.
The dispute between Washington and Baghdad revolves throughout the rising menace posed by Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq, which have stepped up their assaults in opposition to U.S. targets in present weeks.
That options quite a few rocket assaults in opposition to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and a strike on Wednesday concentrating on an American navy base that may be home to dozens of Canadian troopers.
U.S. navy officers say the rockets did not hit the underside positioned near the city of Irbil in Iraq’s Kurdistan space, and the Division of Nationwide Defence talked about all Canadian troops on the bottom had been safe.
Canada has spherical 170 navy members in Iraq, along with an undisclosed number of specific forces troopers determining of Irbil and one different group collaborating in a NATO-led teaching mission inside the south.
Canada’s ambassador to Iraq joined totally different allies in expressing concern about assaults in opposition to diplomatic missions in Baghdad after a gathering with Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi on Wednesday.
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