The military trainers of the Italian contingent located in Erbil and in northern Iraqi Kurdistan, after five weeks, concluded the 8 training cycle in favor of 260 peshmerga.
I peshmerga engaged in final exercises that took place in different training areas of Iraqi Kurdistan have shown to have acquired in the field the full operational capacity that will allow them to conduct military operations against the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
In particular, the Kurdish security forces, at the request of ministry of peshmerga, were trained by Italian and coalition trainers to combat in urban centers, the application of procedures against improvised explosive devices (C-IED), the execution of first aid, the use of precision weapon systems and the indirect shooting.
The commander of the Italian contingent and the trainers, at the end of the training exercises, received the heartfelt thanks of the commanders of the Kurdish security forces aware of having improved in the vital tactical aspects that will allow them to win and to survive on the complex battlefield.
The Italian military 200 on the 600 of the Kurdish Training Coordination Center (KTCC), represented by 7 European nations, are the largest contingent contributor in terms of trainers who have trained beyond 2015 since January peshmerga out of a total of 5000.
