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NATO taking 'some personnel' out of Iraq

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US and allied foreign troops in Iraq are concerned they might be targeted by Iran or allied Iraqi militias in retaliation to Friday's killing of Qasem Soleimani.

The withdrawal is temporary but"the safety of our personnel is paramount," a NATO official said in a statement.

The NATO official said other mission personnel were being moved to other parts of Iraq, and emphasised that"NATO maintains a presence."He declined to give details on how many personnel were being moved or to where. Romania's defence ministry said separately that its 14 soldiers taking part in the NATO deployment"will be temporarily relocated to another coalition base."

Around 200 Hungarian soldiers are stationed in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, both as part of NATO's training mission and the broader coalition against the Islamic State organization.The NATO training mission in Iraq is separate to the far bigger foreign military deployment in the country led by the US, which has 5,200 soldiers stationed in Iraqi bases.

 

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