Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the country will send more military trainers to Iraq to drill local troops combating the Islamic State group.
Newly elected Trudeau has pledged its citizens to bring back Canadian warplanes deployed in Iraq and Syria. However, he did not mention any specific time frame for this.
He also said, "We will continue to do more than our share, including a military engagement, but especially in training rather than air strikes."
He added, "I've committed repeatedly to my allies that we were going to do more on the training front and that means obviously more than just 69 trainers.
"How many that will be, what form that will take, what kind of engagement we're going to have, those are things that we're going to work out but I have reassured my allies and Canadians that, yes, we will be doing more."
Prime Minister of Canada will soon meet with US President Barack Obama, alongside with the two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit.
He would reassure Canada’s stand to continue in its commitment to the coalition along with 60 other countries.
Canada last year deployed 69 military trainers to northern Iraq to train Kurdish militia, as well as six CF-18 fighter jets that have conducted 1,121 sorties in Iraq and Syria as of November 15.
Updated 20 Nov 2015 | Soruce: Business Standard | By S.Seal