Kurdish peshmerga forces, who are set to receive training in firing weapons by British forces being sent to Iraq
UK Troops Training Kurdish Forces In Iraq, Says MoD -- BBC
A "specialist team" of 12 UK soldiers is training Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has said.
It said troops from the Yorkshire Regiment were training Iraqi Kurds to use UK-supplied heavy machine guns.
The soldiers are expected to spend a week in Irbil, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
Royal Air Force Tornado jets based in Cyprus have been flying combat missions over Iraq since September.
The UK training mission comes amid heavy fighting between Syrian Kurds and IS forces in the town of Kobane, in Syria.
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