NATO Ambassadors met on 6 January 2019 in Brussels headquaters to address current tensions in the Middle East and implications for NATO’s training mission in Iraq. “…Allies expressed their strong support for the fight against ISIS and for the NATO mission in Iraq. In everything that we do, the safety of our personnel is paramount….
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Borrell calls for extraordinary Council
The EU top diplomat Josep Borrell has called for an extraordinary Foreign Affairs Council with the Member States on Friday afternoon, 10 January, to discuss recent developments in Iraq and Iran. “EU will play its full role to seek de-escalation of tensions in the region”, Borrell wrote on his Twitter micro blog. I called an…
Soleimani: lethal record & impact
MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor after the US-Qataris airstrike in Baghdad, described top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani as a “terrorist mastermind who operated without constraint”. “Soleimani made it his life’s work to take the Iranian revolutionary call for death to America and death to Israel and turned…