Iraq and Kurdistan Region Service - Ambreen Zaman, senior correspondent for Al-Monitor, defended her recent report on the withdrawal of American forces from Erbil, stating that most of the American military has left the city and that the Patriot missile defense systems have also been withdrawn from the Kurdistan Region.
Syria Service - Azad Abdul Karim Othman and Mohammad Ala Saeed Ibrahim, who were captured by Turkish-backed forces in October 2019, when Horin Khalaf, the co-chair of the Syrian Future Party, was killed, were released after seven years and within the framework of a prisoner exchange agreement.
