The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, called for calm in Iraq on Friday 3 January, hours after the death of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in an American raid on Baghdad.
Mr Soleimani was the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, responsible for Iran’s external operations.
“The cycle of violence, provocations and retaliations which we have witnessed In Iraq over the past few weeks has to stop. A further escalation must be avoided at all cost”, he warned in...