France-Made Ceasar Artillery Guns To Aid Iraqi Forces Against ISIS
The might of France including Caesar Artillery guns and French army technical advisors will aid Iraqi Forces in their fight to retake the town of Mosul from the Islamic State terrorists, French President Hollande said Tuesday.
"The artillery batteries have been positioned north of Mosul and are ready for use to reconquer Mosul," Hollande was quoted as saying by expatica during a news conference Tuesday.
France announced in July that it was providing the weaponry to the Iraqi forces and sent French military advisers to Iraq for training.
The Caesar truck-mounted artillery has a range of 40 kilometers (25 miles).
Hollande said the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier was en route to the area.
Iraqi forces have been moving northwards from Baghdad for almost two years, gradually retaking areas over which IS declared its "caliphate" in June 2014.
The IS group seized Mosul, Iraq's cosmopolitan and religiously mixed second city, in June 2014 in a lightning offensive through the north and west of the country.
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