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The Canadian government says a federal judge misinterpreted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in directing officials to secure the release of four men from detention in northeastern Syria.

Efforts by Canada's financial intelligence agency over the last three years uncovered activity related to homegrown terrorism, the bankrolling of international terrorist groups and attempts by Canadians to take part in extremism abroad.

Canada is expected to face pressure this week to reverse a recent drawdown of troops from Iraq as the NATO military alliance prepares to expand its presence in the country.

The federal government has been accused of violating its international human rights obligations by refusing to help dozens of Canadian men, women and children detained in squalid camps in Syria because of their suspected links to the Islamic State.

Canadian troops in Iraq are on high alert as the novel coronavirus spreads inside the country.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan was hailing Thursday the Iraqi government's decision to let NATO stay in the country even as many Canadian troops remained on lockdown.

The federal government says the national-threat level remains unchanged despite concerns of retaliatory strikes by the Islamic State group after the killing of its leader.

The parents of Jack Letts, a British-Canadian man imprisoned in northern Syria, are chastising Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer for saying he wouldn't lift a finger to help their son.

Canada will lead a NATO training mission in Iraq until November 2020 after the federal government approved an extension to the operation.

Canada is being invited to once again provide training to Iraq's Kurdish security forces, who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Canadian soldiers in the war against the Islamic State group before being frozen out in 2017.

The commander of Canada's special forces says officials are watching closely to see what impact U.S. plans to withdraw hundreds of soldiers from Syria could have on Canada's mission in neighbouring Iraq.

The U.S. will continue to lead the fight against Islamic State militants in the Middle East, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted on Wednesday, February 06, 2019, — notwithstanding President Donald Trump's apparent impatience to get American soldiers out of Syria.

More than four years after it started, Canada is ending its air-to-air refuelling support to the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

An idyllic estate on the shore of Meech Lake outside Ottawa will be the scene on Thursday, December 6, 2018, when representatives from more than a dozen countries gather to discuss the war against the Islamic State group and the futures of Iraq and Syria.

The Canadian military will command a new NATO training and capacity building mission in Iraq for its first year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in Brussels on Wednesday, July 11, 2018, as part of the alliance's annual summit.