{"id":202252,"date":"2020-01-08T00:24:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/iran-attacks-two-u-s-bases-in-iraq-live-updates.html"},"modified":"2020-01-08T00:24:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:24:44","slug":"iran-attacks-two-u-s-bases-in-iraq-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/iran-attacks-two-u-s-bases-in-iraq-live-updates.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran Attacks Two U.S. Bases in Iraq: Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">On Monday, the NATO secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, announced that training had been temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Describing security of NATO personnel, the organization said in a statement that it would be taking precautions \u2014 including \u201cthe temporary repositioning of some personnel to different locations both inside and outside Iraq.\u2019\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">NATO \u201cmaintains a presence in Iraq\u2019\u2019 and remains committed \u201cto fighting international terrorism,\u201d an official said, but refused to provide \u201coperational details\u2019\u2019 about troop movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">NATO has had roughly 500 soldiers doing the training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Some NATO countries, like Canada, Germany and Croatia, have announced that they are moving troops out of Iraq altogether, at least temporarily, because of security concerns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Canada is temporarily moving to Kuwait some of its 500 military personnel based in Iraq, the country\u2019s top military official, Gen. Jonathan Vance, said <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">in a letter posted on Twitter on Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Thirty of the 120 German soldiers in Iraq will be sent to Jordan and Kuwait, while others will remain positioned in the less volatile Kurdistan region, the German defense and foreign ministries said in a joint letter to the German parliament, the Bundestag. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen the training is able to resume, the military personnel can be reinstated,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Croatia has also moved its small contingent of soldiers \u2014 14 \u2014 from Iraq, with seven bound for Kuwait and the rest headed home, the Croatian Defense Ministry said. Slovakia has also removed its seven soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/07\/world\/middleeast\/trump-iran.html?emc=rss&amp;partner=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the NATO secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, announced that training had been temporarily suspended. Describing security of NATO personnel, the organization said in a statement that it would be taking precautions \u2014 including \u201cthe temporary repositioning of some personnel to different locations both inside and outside Iraq.\u2019\u2019 NATO \u201cmaintains a presence in Iraq\u2019\u2019 and remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-202252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}