France To Send More Military Advisers To Iraq

BAGHDAD / NINA / French President Francois Hollande said his country would send more military advisers to help the Iraqi forces in the fight against the terrorist organization Daash. Holland, in a speech at the Defense Ministry said France would deploy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the Middle East in the autumn. He added: "We will intensify the participation of ground forces to support the Iraqis in preparation for retaking of Mosul." He continued: " air-naval group will be redeployed with the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle carrier again in the fall, because we must hit and destroy those who attacked us, here in January and November 2015," referring to the Paris attacks adopted by the organization Daash terror that left 147 people dead. It is mentioned that between 300 and 400 French soldiers are training Iraqi forces in Baghdad and the Peshmerga in Kurdistan without direct involvement in the fighting. The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle has already participated twice in battles against the terrorist organization Daash in Syria and Iraq, the first at the beginning of 2015 and the second after the November attacks in 2015. / End