OTTAWA—A great deal of attention has been focused over the past week on the U.S. military operation in Syria that took down the group’s shadowy leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as well as on Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria. Yet Iraq and Lebanon, where Canada has hundreds of military personnel, have been facing their own challenges as protesters have taken to the streets in the thousands.
The Canadian military is being forced to adjust and even curtail some aspects of its anti-ISIS mission in Iraq and Lebanon as anti-government protests rock the two countries and threaten to further destabilize the Middle East.
