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NATO will take "some personnel" out of Iraq because of the increased danger after the US assassination of an Iranian general triggered revenge threats. The withdrawal is temporary but "the safety of our personnel is paramount," a NATO official said in a stat…

OTTAWA -- The Canadian military is temporarily relocating some soldiers from Iraq to Kuwait due to security concerns, chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance said Tuesday. The move, which Vance announced in an open letter to the families of Canadian…

The new year has come with a fresh reason to worry. The killing of a top Iranian general by a U.S. airstrike in Iraq is stoking fears of renewed instability in the Middle East, with ripple effects for both financial markets and gasoline prices. Oil prices ro…

All members of the Atlantic alliance stood behind the United States in the Middle East after it briefed NATO on its drone attack that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday. Speaking after a rare NATO meeting on Iran and Iraq in which the…

NATO Chief Is Mum on Reaction to Any Iranian Attack Against U.S.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Sunday for a crisis meeting of his European Union counterparts this week to discuss escalating tension in the Middle East following the killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq by the United States. “As…

TORONTO -- The Canadian government has updated a raft of travel advisories for countries in the Middle East due to an increased threat of attacks. Tensions have escalated across the region in recent days following a U.S. airstrike in Iraq, which killed top…

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - With shouts of “Death to America”, tens of thousands of people marched in Iraq on Saturday to mourn Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and an Iraqi militia leader who were killed in a U.S. air strike that has raised the specter of…

A ringing phone helped retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark ring in the New Year on CNN  though it clearly wasn’t intended. Clark, the former supreme allied commander in Europe for NATO, was discussing Tuesday’s attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq when his phone ra…

Key Point: The Warsaw Pact planned a decapitating nuclear strike across central Europe. Last month in the National Interest we discussed NATOs plan for World War III in Europe. The scenario, set in the late 1980s, assumed that the forces of the Soviet Union …