Baghdad Taking Steps to End US-Led Coalition’s Presence in Iraq: Prime Minister

Published on January 5, 2024

The Iraqi government is taking measures to end a United States-led military coalition’s presence in the country, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said. “The government is setting a date for the launch of a bilateral committee to make arrangements to end the presence of international coalition forces in Iraq permanently,” Mr. Al-Sudani’s office said in a Jan. 5 statement. The announcement comes one day after an Iraqi militia leader was killed by a U.S. strike in Baghdad. Some 2,500 American troops are currently deployed at military bases throughout the country. Approximately 900 others are stationed at U.S. bases in eastern Syria, which shares a border with Iraq....

Continue reading on website
Other news

Glynis Johns, ‘Mary Poppins’ Star Who First Sang Sondheim’s ‘Send in the Clowns,’ Dies at 100

January 5, 2024
NEW YORK—Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 100.Mitch Clem, her manager, said she died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles of natural causes. “Today’s a sad day fo

Taxes Are Rising Despite National Insurance: IFS

January 5, 2024
Personal taxes are rising for many in 2024 despite a cut in National Insurance contributions (NICs) rate, the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.In an analysis published on Friday, the think tank said the lowest and the highest earning taxpayers will both see their over taxes rise because of frozen tax thresholds.It comes after IFS Director Paul Johnson questioned Labour’s reported plan to pro