Estonian infantry company ESTCOY-18, mainly consisting of the personnel of the Scouts Battalion, embarked on Wednesday on a foreign mission to Iraq where the unit will serve in the US-led operation Inherent Resolve.
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Close to 70 Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) reservists will soon be returning home after spending much of this month in Poland, tasked with installing razor wire on that country's border with Belarus, and also in deploying surveillance drones, ETV news show 'Aktuaalne kaamera' (AK) reported Saturday night.
Members of the infantry platoon and national support element who served on the French-led operation Barkhane in Mali for close to four months arrived in Estonia early on Wednesday morning after concluding their deployment. A new unit arrived in Mali on Tuesday.