Dusseldorf, GERMANY—A group of Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers finished two weeks of training on anti-tank weapons in Germany on Friday and further training will continue in the Kurdistan Region, a German defense official told Rudaw.
The Peshmerga and a group of Iraqi soldiers were trained on Milan anti-tank missiles at a military camp in Hammelburg in southern of Germany, said the German official.
Commenting on a statement by the German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen last week who said that Germany was training Yezidi fighters, the defense official told Rudaw that they had not been tasked with such training yet.
German military advisors continue working with the Kurdish Peshmerga at a training camp set up by the coalition forces near Erbil last year.
Kurdish authorities have praised the effectiveness of Milan anti-tank missiles provided by Germany in their fight against the Islamic State (ISIS).
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