Italy trained 7,200 Kurdish, Iraqi forces - Pinotti

(ANSA) - Rome, June 8 - Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said Wednesday Italy had trained some 7,200 Kurdish and Iraqi troops and was among the top contributors to the international coalition fighting ISIS. "After the US we are the country with most forces in Iraq, we have given arms to the Peshmerga, we have trainers in Erbil and Baghdad who have trained around 7,200 Peshmerga and Iraqis, 36% of the units trained by the coalition countries" she told a joint session of the parliamentary defence and foreign affairs committees..