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British Troops Train Kurdish Peshmurga in Iraq

The Foreign Secretary has visited troops in the Yorkshire Regiment who are training Kurdish Peshmurga troops in Iraq. Philip Hammond saw the first of several courses for local fighters but as the BBC Jim Muir reports the foreign secretary insisted the training is not the first step of mission creep. 

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