PARIS – Defense Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba said Wednesday the government may send the core ground force to Iraq by the end of this month.
“The sooner, the better. It is likely we will dispatch them within this month, but I cannot say how high such chances are,” Ishiba said during a news conference in Paris.
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