Dutch army underlines need to protect Erbil airport after rocket attack
2021/02/23 15:43 Around 150 Dutch army troops protect the military base at the Erbil International Airport (Photo: Hoshmend Sadiq/Kurdistan 24) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – More than 100 Dutch troops arrived in January to provide protection to the Erbil International Airport in the Kurdistan Region’s capital. On Monday, the Dutch army allowed reporters to visit the troops on the military base near the airport. “Force protection is focused on the protection of the airport. Together with the security forces and by doing so, they are providing security for the Coalition as a whole,” Colonel Huub Klein Schaesberg, who leads the roughly 120-150 Dutch troops in Iraq, told Kurdistan 24 at the base.