The State Department has ordered non-emergency government employees out of Iraq amid tensions with Iran.
The U.S. State Department has ordered all non-emergency government employees to leave the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and U.S. Consulate in Erbil, amid tensions with Iran and warnings about possible threats to American interests in the region.
Pompeo made a surprise visit to Baghdad last week to brief Iraqi officials on the U.S. intelligence regarding the threat streams. Americans at the Baghdad embassy and Erbil consulate were asked to depart the country by commercial transportation and are advised to monitor local media for updates, review personal security plans and review the complete travel advisory for Iraq.Pompeo, just back from a trip to Sochi where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was scheduled to brief President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon at the White House.
The White House announced last week that the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group and a bomber task force were being deployed in response to unspecified"troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" of a threat from Iran, although the Pentagon later confirmed the aircraft carrier was already scheduled to eventually transit through the region. The U.S. also decided to move a Patriot anti-missile battery into the Middle East.
However, Maj. Gen. Chris Ghika, a British general and senior officer in the U.S.-backed coalition fighting the Islamic State told reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday that there has been"no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Syria.”
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