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Macron says six French soldiers wounded and one killed in Iraq after drone attack
Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion died and six soldiers were wounded in a drone strike targeting French troops training Kurdish forces, marking France's first Middle East military fatality.
- On March 13, President Emmanuel Macron said a French soldier was killed and six wounded after a drone attack in Erbil.
- Amid the wider West Asian war, since U.S.-Israeli strikes last month, attacks attributed to pro‑Iranian factions have targeted foreign forces, including a March 12 strike on an Italian military base hosting NATO personnel.
- Local officials reported that two drones hit a base in Mala Qara, about 40 kilometres from Erbil, where troops engaged in counter-terrorism training were wounded and taken to a medical facility.
- Macron condemned the attack, saying 'The war in Iran cannot justify such attacks', and France is deploying about a dozen naval vessels including the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier strike group while Italy temporarily withdrew military personnel from the base.
- France has hundreds of troops in Erbil as part of the international anti‑jihadist coalition led by Washington, and the incident risks escalation while oil remains above $100 a barrel.
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Killed in Iraqi Kurdistan by the attack of a pro-Iranian armed group, Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion was a brilliant non-commissioned officer of the 7th BCA in Varces: integrated into the mountain commandos group of the 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade in 2012, he was of all the external operations carried out by France in recent years. In Varces, the atmosphere was at the gathering this Friday morning.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France would continue to support its allies in the Middle East after a French soldier was killed in a drone strike in the Erbil region of Iraq. The attack hit a Kurdish military base where French soldiers are training Iraqi units. Macron stressed that nothing could justify attacks on France. He added that France would respond calmly but firmly to the situation. The French president said his co…
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Iran drone kills French soldier in Iraqi Kurdistan
An Iranian drone has killed a French soldier in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, his commanding officer said on Friday, after President Emmanuel Macron confirmed the first French military death in the Middle East war.
Fear in Kurdistan, 17 drones "to hiccup" on Erbil. Crosetto: "Decided attack." And yesterday six French wounded
The attack that caused the death of a French soldier in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the night of Thursday to Friday, affected a French deployment that had been engaged long before the conflict that began on 28 February.
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