The new AP, named NUCLUN, will make its debut this week in the “G3 Screen”, a smartphone developed for the Korean market.

“If our experience can be helpful, we are ready to offer it. But that must be decided here,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in Yerevan.

In Iraq, the timing will depend on a host of factors, some out of the military's control - from Iraqi politics to the weather.

The Mediterranean country has 1.1 million officially registered Syrian refugees, although the number is believed to be far higher.

New York officials said Dr Craig Spencer had travelled on the subway and gone out jogging before he started feeling unwell.

"There is a necessity for a certain amount of bridging finance," Merkel told reporters after the first day of a European Union summit.