American and German service members have served beside one another at NATO missions Afghanistan and Iraq.  ... S and German troops work together effectively NATO and UN operations worldwide, due in part to the joint training and capacity-building performed at U.S military..…

The idea of building a Berlin-Baghdad Railway originated in the late nineteenth century when Syria and Iraq were parts of the Ottoman Empire. The project gained impetus from German-Turkish cooperation in the years leading up to World War I, when work began on various stretches of the route. ..…