Albania will send troops to Iraq to aid the global coalition against Islamic State, ISIS, the Defence Minister has told a parliamentary commission, like reported by focus-fen.net.
Albanian troops will set foot in Iraq again, nine years after their last operations there ceased, as part of global anti-ISIS voluntary operations in response to a request of the US government.
The initiative was announced on Monday by the Albanian Defence Minister, Mimi Kodheli, during a hearing with a parliamentary commission.
“We are going to bring to parliament very soon a draft law to open the way to the presence of [Albanian] soldiers in the global coalition against ISIS,” she said.
“This is not a NATO mission and it needs a special law. We are talking about a voluntary mission in which Albania has helped already in different ways, but not with a military presence,” Kodheli explained to the commission.
