Britain has sent specialist team to Iraq to tackle the IS fighters

The Ministry of Defense has confirmed that a small specialist team of UK soldiers have been sent to Iraq and are engaged near the front line of the fight between the Islamic State (IS) and Kurdish fighters news.sky.com.

The team is reportedly based near the Kurdish capital of Irbil in the north, and they are believed to be training Peshmerga forces in the use of heavy machine guns that had been supplied to tem by Britain in September.
The specialist soldiers have come from the 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, which is based in Cyprus.
It has been explained by a MoD spokeswoman that the intention of the Government is to extend training to the Peshmerga as part of the continued effort to assist in the fight against ISIL (IS). It has also been clarified that the Defense Secretary has approved the deployment of a small specialist team of non-combat Army trainers which is now in the Irbil area providing instruction on operating, employing and maintaining the heavy machine guns that were gifted by the UK last month.

RAF Tornado fighter jets have already been involved in the US-led bombing raids on IS fighters for the past two weeks. Incidentally, British troops had invaded Iraq in March 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein.