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BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday the alliance had made "no final decision" on the future of its Afghanistan mission, as new US President Joe Biden weighs pulling out troops.

ARBIL, Iraq－The United Nations warned on Tuesday that tensions in Iraq could escalate after a rocket attack killed a foreign contractor for the US military and wounded at least 14 others in the Kurdish regional capital of Arbil.

The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq.

Peshmerga commander Sirwan Barzani has warned that the coronavirus pandemic has allowed more than 7,000 ISIS fighters to regroup in Iraq.

ARBIL: A volley of rockets targeting an airbase in Iraq’s Kurdistan region killed a foreign civilian contractor and wounded five others and a US soldier, the US-led coalition said.The attack...

Iran-Backed Militia Accidentally Bombs Chinese Consulate in Iraq 16 Feb 2021 A militia believed to be tied to the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) took responsibility on Tuesday for a rocket attack on Erbil, Iraq, that resulted in damage to the Chinese consulate there. Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between communist China and Iran. The attack on Monday, claimed by an allegedly newly-formed militant group named “Saraya Awlia al-Dam (Guardians of Blood ...

France, Germany, Italy, Britain and the United States on Wednesday condemned "in the strongest terms" a rocket attack on an airbase in Iraq's Kurdistan region that killed a foreign contractor.

In Iraq, generous Mideast tradition of istiftah lives on AFP 2/16/2021 AFP © SAFIN HAMED An Iraqi man sells nuts in the old bazaar in Arbil, the capital Iraqi Kurdistan: shopkeepers offer the tradition of istiftah to the first customer of the day As the sun rises over Arbils historic bazaar, shopkeepers sweep their stoops and eagerly await the "istiftah" -- the first customer of the day, believed to be a good omen. © SAFIN HAMED The custom of istiftah means the first cus...

The generous Middle Eastern tradition of istiftah lives on in Iraq The first customer of the morning is thought to set the tone for the rest of the day An Iraq man opens his shop in the old bazaar in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. As the sun rises over Arbils historic bazaar, shopkeepers sweep their stoops and eagerly await the istiftah, the first customer of the day. AFP The istiftah is believed to be a good omen. AFP The first customer of the day gets to ...

A rocket attack on U.S.-led forces in northern Iraq killed a civilian contractor on Monday and injured a U.S. service member, the U.S. coalition in Iraq said, in the deadliest such attack in almost a…