Iraqi lawmakers approved a resolution Sunday asking the Iraqi government to end an agreement under which American and allied forces have been in the country for more than four years to help fight the Islamic State group, also known as Daesh
The bill is nonbinding and subject to approval by the Iraqi government but has the backing of the outgoing prime minister.
The training mission, currently led by Maj. Gen. Jennie Carignan, has been under Canadian command since it was launched in October 2018 at the request of the Iraqi government. “We continue to monitor and evaluate the situation, and remain in close co-ordination with our international partners,” Sajjan’s press secretary Todd Lane said in an email Sunday.When asked, Lane would not divulge whether Canada had plans to remove its soldiers from Iraq.Canada has 250 military members working with the NATO training mission as well as dozens of special forces troops who have been working in the northern part of the country with Iraqi security forces.
Those tensions are also now being felt in Canada with a group representing Islamic Americans reporting that dozens of Iranians and Iranian-Americans were detained at length and questioned at the Peace Arch border crossing linking British Columbia to Washington State.
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