German Armed Forces soldiers in Baghdad and staff of the German embassy there are being withdrawn because of the Iran conflict. The federal government informed members of the relevant parliamentary committees at midday on Friday. Accordingly, soldiers and embassy staff will relocate to Jordan, where two A400M military transporters are stationed. Soldiers who were in Bahrain have already returned, and withdrawals from Kuwait are also being prepared, as well as those of UNIFIL soldiers from Lebanon. Already on Monday, coalition circles announced that, as a consequence of the attacks by Israel and the United States on Iran and Iranian retaliatory strikes, some soldiers were pulled from the camps, placed in decentralized locations, and contingents reduced. Official figures state that up to recently more than 500 Bundeswehr soldiers were stationed in the Middle East. Multinational camps in northern Iraq and Jordan, where Bundeswehr soldiers were present, had already been under fire over the weekend.
Germany Pulls Embassy Staff and Soldiers Out of Iraq Amid Iran Conflict
