KEY POINTS:

  1. Operation Okra, Australia's counter-ISIL intervention, began in August 2014, involving airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.
  2. Australia deployed an Air Task Group, including F/A-18F Super Hornets, an E-7A Wedgetail, and a KC-30A tanker, operating from UAE bases.
  3. Humanitarian aid included airdrops and airlifts of arms and munitions; RAAF squadrons rotated deployments.
  4. Australian Army deployed a Special Operations Task Group to aid Iraqi Security Forces; Task Group Taji trained regular Iraqi forces.
  5. Australian forces facilitated over 150 airstrikes supporting the offensive liberating Ramadi by the 1st Iraqi Special Operations Force Brigade.
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