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<p>Within Iraq the UK has helped train over 1,500 Kurdish Peshmerga across a range
of infantry, counter-Improvised Explosive Device, weapons maintenance and protection
of civilian courses. UK air strikes have helped halt, hold and begin to roll-back
ISIL, including in Kurdish areas. We have also gifted over 50 tonnes of equipment,
40 heavy machine guns, nearly half a million rounds of ammunition and delivered over
300 tonnes of weapons and ammunition on behalf of other coalition nations.</p><p>The
coalition is helping counter-ISIL in Syria and coalition airstrikes have helped Kurdish
forces liberate and then defend Kobane. The UK is not conducting any airstrikes in
Syria but does have intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft periodically
operating over Syria.</p><p> </p>
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