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Last week, NATO defence ministers held a two-day virtual meeting, the first since Joe Biden moved into the White House. They talked about NATO missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, discussed burden-sharing and the NATO 2030 initiative, under the watchful eye of Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. General Mario Arpino – who has been Chief of Staff of the Italian Defence – then analysed and commented the summit outcomes on Formiche.net, focussing on the Alliance’s decision to sustain and expand the Iraq mission up to roughly 4000 troops. Starting with the rebalancing actions that must be ...

(Bloomberg) — Iraq is in talks with the International Monetary Fund for a $6 billion loan to prop up its ailing economy, Finance Minister Ali Allawi said in an…

AMY GOODMAN: This is The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. President Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater mercenaries convicted for their role in a massacre in Baghdad has sparked outrage in Iraq. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said the decision violates, quote, “the values of justice, human rights and rule of law” and, quote, “ignores the dignity of the victims,” unquote. The Blackwater guards included Nicholas Slatten, who was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder for his role in the 2007 Nisoor Square massacre, when he and other Blackwater ...

Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley. Read Scahill’s article on the story at TheNation.com Transcript AMY GOODMAN: We bring you today an explosive Democracy Now! exclusive. Last weekend, Vice President Joe Biden announced the U.S. Justice Department would appeal the dismissal of the criminal case against five Blackwater operatives accused of being behind the infamous Nisoor Square massacre in Baghdad in September of 2007. Some 17 Iraqis were killed and more than 20 wounded in 15 minutes of sustained gunfire. On New Year’s Eve, Federal Judge Ricardo Urbina threw out...

The Iraqi parliament in November voted for a budget law despite a Kurdish boycott (Photo: Archive). ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - Iraq’s finance minister Ali Allawi on Saturday announced an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on the 2021 draft budget bill. However, experts say the Iraqi parliament will make the final decision on the dispute. The Iraqi finance minister announced the news after extensive negotiations in Baghdad with a KRG delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani. “The delegation is currently discussing its allocations for the year 2020,” Allaw...