U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the United States was pleased that the Iraqi government was doing more to protect the U.S. embassy in Baghdad from Iran-backed Shiite Muslim ...

U.S. Marines assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAFTF-CR-CC) 19.2, prepare to deploy from Kuwait in support of a crisis response mission on ...

U.S. State Department helicopters fly over Baghdad toward the U.S. embassy headquarters in Iraq on December 13, 2024. Fears of an Israeli strike on Iran were mounting amid rising tensions in the ...

WASHINGTON — The United States is evacuating diplomatic personnel from Iraq, a State Department official told Al-Monitor on Wednesday, amid threats from Iran to strike US bases in the region.

U.S. missions in Baghdad and Erbil are evacuating most diplomats in response to unspecified security threats, according to one former and two current U.S. officials. The reason for the move, known as ...

Washington has made preparations to withdraw diplomats from Iraq after warning Baghdad it could shut its embassy, two Iraqi officials and two Western diplomats said, a step Iraqis fear could turn ...

WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The United States is preparing a partial evacuation of its Iraqi embassy and will allow military dependents to leave locations around the Middle East due to heightened ...

US President Donald Trump announces that Elizabeth Tsurkov, the Israeli-Russian researcher who was taken hostage in Iraq two years ago, has been freed.

WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) -The United States is preparing a partial evacuation of its Iraqi embassy and will allow military dependents to leave locations around the Middle East due to heightened ...