PARIS: An attack killed a French soldier in Erbil in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday.
A member of the armed forces “died for France during an attack in the Irbil region of Iraq,” Macron posted on X, confirming the first French military death in the Middle East war that began late last month when Israel and the US struck Iran.
Macron added that several other soldiers had been wounded in the incident, which the French military earlier said was a drone attack on troops carrying out a training exercise.
