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NATO training mission faces challenges in Iraq

NATO training mission is expanding in Iraq, but the mission could empower Iranian-backed elements in the Iraqi state.
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Canada announced Aug. 21 that Maj. Gen. Dany Fortin would lead a new NATO training and capacity-building mission in Iraq. For NATO, the mission marks a return to a country where it has conducted training missions in the past and a possible model for a similar program in Libya shortly.

In July, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the NATO Summit in Brussels to announce the new NATO training mission to Iraq. Trudeau pledged that Canada would lead the first year of the mission. 

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