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Paris Confirms 2 French Were Injured by IS Drone in Iraq

by Reuters

   PARIS --

   A French government spokesman said on Wednesday that two French special
   forces commandos were injured by the drone with which the Islamic State
   militant group killed two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters earlier this
   month.

   The confirmation from the French side came from spokesman Stephane Le
   Foll in response to a question at a regular media briefing.

   It followed comments earlier in which, Jabbar al-Yawar, secretary
   general of the autonomous Kurdish region's defense ministry, told
   Reuters an apparently booby-trapped drone had killed two Kurdish
   Peshmerga fighters and wounded two French soldiers earlier this month
   north of the IS-controlled city of Mosul.