(12 Jun 2025)
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Baghdad – 12 June 2025
1. Wide of U.S. Embassy building in Baghdad
2. Various of the building on the Tigris Riverbank
3. Various driving shots by observation towers
4. Driving shot by the embassy building
STORYLINE:
The US State Department says the United States is reducing the number of people deemed nonessential to operations in the Middle East.
Iraq’s state-run Iraqi News Agency said in a statement attributed to an unnamed government official that the evacuation of some nonessential employees from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was part of "procedures related to the US diplomatic presence in a number of Middle Eastern countries, not just Iraq," and that Iraqi officials "have not recorded any security indicators that warrant an evacuation."
The State Department said it made the orders after evaluating recent tensions, which are on the rise in the region as high-stakes nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran appear to have hit an impasse.
The U.S. is also authorizing nonessential personnel and family members to leave Bahrain and Kuwait, which will give them a choice on whether to leave those countries.
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