Last GSDF contingent heads to Iraq

Last GSDF contingent heads to Iraq

Kuwait - The last contingent of the main Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force on a mission to help reconstruct Iraq prepares to cross the Kuwait-Iraq border to head to the southern Iraqi city of Samawah.

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