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 by Staff Writers Berlin (AFP) Sept 18, 2019
Germany on Wednesday extended by one year its military contribution to the multinational coalition against the Islamic State group but decided to end its Tornado reconnaissance flights in six months. Although the IS has lost the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria, underground militant cells are still considered a major threat in the war-ravaged region. Germany has been taking high-resolution images of potential IS targets for the coalition, using Tornado fighter-jets based in Jordan, and has also provided aerial refuelling to partner nations. The air force part of the mission will end next March 31 under a compromise deal reached between Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her junior coalition partners the Social Democrats, who wanted to end the deployment now. The German military will however continue until October 31, 2020 the training of security forces in Baghdad and in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
UN setting up group to investigate Syria hospital bombings United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 13, 2019 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced Friday he is setting up an internal investigation into the bombing of hospitals in Syria which had previously flagged their coordinates to avoid air strikes. Guterres said in a statement the board would look at "a series of incidents that have occurred in northwest Syria" since the establishment of the so-called "Idlib de-escalation zone" in September last year by Russia and Turkey. The committee is not a "criminal investigation" but aimed to "esta ... read more
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