First Military Fatality Since Start Of Middle East Conflict

A French soldier has been killed and several others wounded in a drone attack on a joint Peshmerga-French base in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The attack, which was condemned by President Emmanuel Macron as unacceptable, marks France’s first military fatality since the start of the current war in the Middle East. French troops have been deployed in the area as part of the international coalition against ISIS, and the incident has raised concerns about the safety of coalition forces in the region. The attack was first reported by AeroTime.