{"id":28449,"date":"2026-03-20T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/28449\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:29:09","slug":"nato-says-it-is-adjusting-mission-in-iraq-after-report-of-withdrawal-of-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/28449\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO says it is &#8216;adjusting&#8217; mission in Iraq after report of withdrawal of personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) &#8211; NATO said it was &#8220;adjusting&#8221; the \u200cposture of its mission in \u200cIraq, in response to a media \u200breport that the alliance had started to withdraw personnel from the country due to the military \u200cconflicts in \u2060the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We can confirm that we are \u2060adjusting our posture in the context of NATO Mission \u200bIraq. We \u200bare working \u200bin close coordination \u200cwith Allies and partners,&#8221; NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said in an email to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The safety and security of our \u200cpersonnel is paramount, \u200bwhich is why \u200bwe will \u200brefrain from providing additional \u200cdetails about this \u200bmatter. NATO \u200band Iraq\u2019s political dialogue and practical cooperation, including through \u200bNATO \u200cMission Iraq, will continue,&#8221; she \u200badded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Andrew Gray;Editing \u200bby Sudip Kar-Gupta)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) &#8211; NATO said it was &#8220;adjusting&#8221; the \u200cposture of its mission in \u200cIraq, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13312,94,1486,13311,13313],"class_list":{"0":"post-28449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-allison-hart","9":"tag-iraq","10":"tag-nato","11":"tag-nato-mission","12":"tag-nato-mission-iraq"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116262218325080498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}