Egypt’s flag carrier, EgyptAir announced on Tuesday that it will suspend its flights to Baghdad for three days starting from Wednesday, 8 January 2020 due to security problems in Iraq. The company said that the decision to suspend its flights to Iraq’s capital was taken for the safety of its passengers and planes. Meanwhile, Germany has cut number of her troops in Iraq, following the killing of General Qassem Soleimani (Iranian military commander) last week Friday by the United States airstrike in Baghdad. According to the report our correspondent in Berlin gathered, Germany is moving some of its military personnel from Iraq to neighbouring countries. The German government said that about 30 of its 120 soldiers training Iraqi security forces will be redeployed to Jordan and Kuwait. Also Slovakian authority had temporarily relocated its seven soldiers from Iraq as tensions increase in the region. On Sunday, Iraqi Parliament voted that all foreign troops should leave Iraq after Qassem Soleimani was killed on Friday by the U.S drone strike on his convoy near Baghdad airport.
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