An expanded contingent of British training troops will remain inside their bases in Iraq and not carry out mentoring tasks in combat zones alongside government or Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
Some 300 troops of the 4th Battalion, The Rifles (4 Rifles), as well as all their vehicles and equipment, started being airlifted into Al-Assad Air Base in Iraq's Al-Anbar province by Royal Air Force (RAF) Boeing C-17 Globemaster and chartered Antonov An-124 transport aircraft at the beginning of October.
The additional deployment, which is now almost complete, will see 4 Rifles working in Iraq for six months with the battalion also taking over responsibility for providing existing smaller UK training teams at Arbil in the Kurdistan Regional Government, Al-Taji near Baghdad and Al-Bismayah, a senior UK Ministry of Defence official told IHS Jane's on 12 October.
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