Monday, December 15, 2014 - 06:32
"We must defeat this terror militia by military means," German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen recently told the mass-circulated Bild newspaper, with regard to Berlin's policy for combating the "Islamic State" (IS). That promise appears to have fallen on receptive ears, as Germany has pledged to deploy some 100 Bundeswehr soldiers in northern Iraq to offer support to peshmerga fighters.
