BAGHDAD: The US Embassy in Baghdad has urged American citizens in Iraq to ‘depart immediately’.
The embassy made the call for fear of fallout from a US strike that killed a top Iranian and some Iraqi commanders.
The statement said that US citizens should depart via airline while possible, and it failing to do that, to other countries via land.
The US strike on early Friday hit outside Baghdad airport but security sources said it was still open to flights.
General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force, who featured in the ‘most wanted’ list of America after Osama bin Laden, was killed following a US airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. (Agencies)
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