UPDATED: Canadian troops safe after Iranian missiles target Iraqi city
"CAF families: I can assure you that all deployed CAF personnel are safe & accounted for following missile attacks in Iraq,"CAF families: I can assure you that all deployed CAF personnel are safe & accounted for following missile attacks in Iraq. We remain vigilant.That message was echoed by Canadian Armed Forces Operations.
Hours before the Iranian missiles hit the Canadian Forces had started to move troops out of the country. The Canadian military's redeployment followed other Western nations concerned about the increasingly volatile standoff between the United States and Iran. Vance did not reveal how many Canadian troops were being pulled out of Iraq, and the Department of National Defence later said it would not provide that information for security reasons.
All of the Canadians were ordered to suspend their activities and hunker down over the weekend and guard against attack following the killing by a U.S. drone at the Baghdad airport of Iranian Maj.-Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was seen as the second-most powerful person in Iran. Even as the Canadian Armed Forces was preparing to start moving people out of Iraq on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was talking to other world leaders about the situation in the Middle East, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and King Abdullah II of Jordan."Canadians don't want another war," Singh posted to Twitter.
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