24 Nov 2024
Thursday 16 May 2019 - 13:44
Story Code : 349035

Germany and Netherlands halt training schemes in Iraq as tensions rise

The Guardian | : Germany and the Netherlands have suspended their military training programmes in Iraq because of a perceived security threat in the wake of rising US-Iranian tensions in the region.

The announcements came after the US embassy in Baghdad ordered all but emergency staff to leave Iraq. No details of the supposed security threat were provided.

A German defence ministry spokesman, Jens Flosdorff, said that by pausing its small-scale training missions north of Baghdad and the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Germany was orienting itself toward our partner countries, which have taken this step.

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