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By David Pugliese

Defence Watch

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The Canadian Forces will hold another technical briefing on its mission in Iraq against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). At the briefing will be Lieutenant-General Jonathan Vance, Commander Canadian Joint Operations Command and Brigadier-General Michael Rouleau, Commander Canadian Special Operations Forces Command.

A lot of the focus of the briefing is expected to be on the Canadian special forces part of the mission. Canadian SOF are in northern Iraq training Iraqi/Kurdish security forces. There’s been a lot of discussion – most of it unofficial -in what is going on there. Brig.-Gen. Rouleau is expected to shed more light on that mission.

It is also expected that photos of Canadian special forces in Iraq will be released.

Rouleau has previously talked, albeit briefly, about the job being done by special forces.

“My troops are distributed in and around that area and I will say we are achieving some really neat effects and we’re seeing a tangible improvement in the Iraqi and Kurdish security forces we’re working with,” he told me in November.

More details to come after the technical briefing.