Canada's Special Ops Forces Trade Fire With ISIS Extremists
January 20 2015
A Canadian officer says special operations troops exchanged fire with Islamic State militants in Iraq last week, reports CBC News.
The Canadians were targeted by mortars and responded with sniper fire, "neutralizing the mortar and the machine-gun position," Brig. Gen. Michael Rouleau, commander of special operations forces command, told reporters in Ottawa on Monday.
The Canadian troops were in a planning session behind the front lines and moved forward to visualize the plan...
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