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Macron says French soldier killed in drone attack that wounded troops in Iraqi Kurdistan
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAn attack killed a French soldier in Erbil in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, President Emmanuel Macron says.
A member of the armed forces “died for France during an attack in the Erbil region of Iraq,” Macron posts on X, confirming the first French military death in the Middle East war that began late last month when Israel and the United States struck Iran.
Macron adds that several other soldiers had been wounded in the incident, which the French military earlier said was a drone attack on troops carrying out a training exercise.
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