NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke by phone with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi on Tuesday, discussing the security situation in the region and implications for NATO’s non-combat training mission in Iraq. “The Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, received a phone call from NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg,” the Iraqi cabinet ...
Deutsche Welle reported on Tuesday that Germany plans to withdraw some of its troops from Iraq. The news outlet referred to Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who said in a letter to their ministries that the German military contingent in Iraq would be “temporarily thinned ...