NATO defense ministers decided on Thursday to boost the number of the alliance’s troops in Iraq. “NATO is planning to scale up its mission training Iraq’s security forces with thousands of new personnel as the military alliance seeks to help keep the Islamic State (IS) group at bay”, Secretary-General Jens ...
A rocket attack in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil on Monday killed a civilian contractor with the American-led military coalition and wounded six others, including a US service member, said a US-led coalition spokesman. Several other rockets landed in residential areas of the city, the capital of the Kurdistan ...