Iraq: Airstrike against an ISIL Weapons Production Facility, Jan. 23, near Al Qaim, Iraq
Airstrike against an ISIL weapons production facility near Al Qaim, Iraq. The strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to ...
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U.S.-led Forces Target Islamic State With 12 Air Strikes in Iraq, Syria
U.S.-led forces have launched nine air strikes in Iraq and three in Syria against Islamic State militants since Wednesday, the American military said on Thursday. The Combined Joint Task Force...
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Iraq's foreign minister is coming to New Zealand and he'll tell the government how it can best help the fight against Islamic State extremists.
Ministers on Tuesday confirmed troops were training for a possible deployment to Iraq, but said no decision had been taken to send them.
Ibrahim al-Ja'afari's visit on Friday is likely to settle the issue, if he asks for help with training Iraqi forces.
That's the government's preferred option, and it has ruled out sending troops in a combat role.
Foreign Minister Murray McCully announced the visit on Wednesday.
"New Zealand is currently considering options for a non-combat, training role, in Iraq and this visit is an opportunity to gain the Iraqi government's perspective on how New Zealand can best assist," he said.
"Any capacity building role for the New Zealand military in Iraq will be dependent on an invitation from the Iraqi government."
Dr al-Ja'afari will meet Prime Minister John Key, Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee and Mr McCully during his one-day visit to Auckland.
Opposition parties say the government has already decided to send troops, and that they have been training since late last year for a deployment in late February or March.
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Labour wants New Zealand to spend money on aid for Iraqi refugees, not soldiers to fight in their country.
The government's given the Defence Force the go-ahead for contingency training to begin ahead of a possible deployment to Iraq.
Labour's defence spokesman Phil Goff told Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking he believes the money used on the Defence Force training could be better spent.
"I think if you really want to achieve something in tangible terms, putting the same sort of money into helping the region and the camps in the region as we're putting sending trainers to Iraq would achieve a whole lot more."
Goff is continuing to query why New Zealand personnel would be sent to the Middle East.
"The real question you've got to ask whenever you put people in harms way is whether there is an achievable objective, now I seriously doubt that there is an achievable objective for New Zealand in Iraq."
Cultural awareness is among contingency training New Zealand troops have begun in preparation for deployment to Iraq, in the fight against Islamic State.
Professor Robert Ayson of Victoria University's Centre for Strategic Studies says while all the soldiers won't be required to learn the language, cultural orientation is important.
"In most cultures there are things that you can do unintentionally to offend people and so it's important for them to know what might offend the people they're working with, what might generate better partnerships."
Islamic State may be growing more sophisticated, but a former chief of the New Zealand Defence Force says it will never match any enemies we have faced in the past.
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