{"id":67811,"date":"2015-12-20T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=67811"},"modified":"2015-12-20T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T00:40:11","slug":"canadas-defence-minister-visits-iraq-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/20\/canadas-defence-minister-visits-iraq-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s defence minister visits Iraq: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67812\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12068968_437073169828468_9130675924458129559_o.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67812\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67812\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12068968_437073169828468_9130675924458129559_o.jpg\" alt=\"Harjit Sajjan, Canada's defence minister (Photo from Sajjan's official Facebook page)\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12068968_437073169828468_9130675924458129559_o.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12068968_437073169828468_9130675924458129559_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12068968_437073169828468_9130675924458129559_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12068968_437073169828468_9130675924458129559_o-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harjit Sajjan, Canada&#8217;s defence minister<br \/>(Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/harjit.sajjan.7\" target=\"_blank\">Sajjan&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BAGDHAD, Iraq\u2014Canada&#8217;s\u00a0defence\u00a0minister\u00a0is visiting Iraq, just days after Canadian military forces helped push back a major Islamic State offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Kurdish media are reporting that Harjit Sajjan spent Sunday in the town of Irbil in a visit that was not announced by the Canadian government in advance.<\/p>\n<p>The Kurdish media outlet Rudaw didn&#8217;t report specifically why Sajjan was in Iraq but images show him meeting with Kurdish officials in Irbil.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Canadian special forces personnel who are in Iraq in a non-combat training role laid down supporting fire to help repulse the ISIL offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian CF-18 fighter jets also pounded an ISIL position near Mosul.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Trudeau\u00a0government has announced it intends to withdraw the CF-18s from Iraq sometime in the new year and bolster the training mission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGDHAD, Iraq\u2014Canada&#8217;s\u00a0defence\u00a0minister\u00a0is visiting Iraq, just days after Canadian military forces helped push back a major Islamic State offensive. Kurdish media &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}