{"id":201385,"date":"2020-01-05T04:03:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T04:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/state-department-urges-all-americans-to-leave-iraq-after-us-embassy-attack.html"},"modified":"2020-01-05T04:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T04:03:59","slug":"state-department-urges-all-americans-to-leave-iraq-after-us-embassy-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/travel\/state-department-urges-all-americans-to-leave-iraq-after-us-embassy-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"State Department urges all Americans to leave Iraq after US embassy attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - US Embassy dispute boosts US-Iran tensions\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_ap vp_tg\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{muted:true,bContent:false,vidNum:1,docking:true}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{adsEnabled:true,awsPath:news\/national,byline:,canonicalURL:,contentSourceCode:APDM,createDate:2019-12-31T22:55:18.331Z,credit:AP,duration:49000,headline:US Embassy dispute boosts US-Iran tensions,hlsURL:https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/0cb7907a-a02e-4bde-8cd7-20dbb0c9d263\/1080p_30fps,720p_30fps,480p_30fps,master.m3u8,id:2787288001,image:{url:https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-thumbnails\/0cb7907a-a02e-4bde-8cd7-20dbb0c9d263_poster.jpg,opto:true},initialPublishDate:2019-12-31T22:55:43.943Z,keywords:USAT Video,mp4URL:https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/0cb7907a-a02e-4bde-8cd7-20dbb0c9d263\/1080p_30fps.mp4,origin:AP Domestic,pageURL:{long:https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/news\/nation\/2019\/12\/31\/us-embassy-attack-boosts-us-iran-tensions\/2787288001\/},promoBrief:Dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters pennyless into a U.S. Embassy devalue in Baghdad on Tuesday, hurt over lethal U.S. airstrikes targeting a Iran-backed militia. (Dec. 31),publishDate:2019-12-31T22:55:43.943Z,series:,ssts:{leafName:nation,path:news\/nation,section:news,storysubject:,subsection:nation,subtopic:,taxonomyEntityDisplayName:Nation,topic:},tags:[{id:68532648-1f35-4dac-a1dd-26cd518c074d,name:USAT Video}],title:US Embassy dispute boosts US-Iran tensions,url:\/videos\/news\/nation\/2019\/12\/31\/us-embassy-attack-boosts-us-iran-tensions\/2787288001\/}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/4e2a9_0cb7907a-a02e-4bde-8cd7-20dbb0c9d263_poster.jpg\" data-g-r=\"vp_po\" \/><\/button><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The U.S. State Department is propelling all U.S. adults to leave Iraq after the\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">New Year&#8217;s Eve\u00a0attack on a embassy in Baghdad<\/a> by Hashed al-Shaabi, a\u00a0pro-Iranian paramilitary group, that\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">caused extensive\u00a0damage to a property<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;On Dec 31, 2019, a Embassy dangling open consular services, until serve notice, as a outcome of repairs finished by Iranian-backed militant attacks on a Embassy compound,&#8221; a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">State Department pronounced in an refurbish to a Iraq transport advisory<\/a> on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Photos show\u00a0a burnt and charred accepting area, crushed windows and\u00a0vandalized bedrooms left behind by supporters and members of a Iranian-trained Hashed al-Shaabi troops network, also famous as a Popular Mobilization Forces.\u00a0No deaths or critical injuries have been reported, and a embassy was not evacuated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In response, a Pentagon\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">deployed\u00a0750 paratroopers from a 82nd Airborne,<\/a> formed during Fort Bragg, North Carolina,\u00a0to a region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/8bb7b_bf62024b-14b6-4e32-abca-b3cdf4ebf02b-US_embassy_Baghdad_Iran_Attack_001.JPG\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/01\/02\/USAT\/bf62024b-14b6-4e32-abca-b3cdf4ebf02b-US_embassy_Baghdad_Iran_Attack_001.JPG?crop=5471,3077,x1,y571width=1320height=744format=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">The transport advisory<\/a> remarkable that a U.S. Consulate in Irbil, located in northern Iraq toward a northern limit with Turkey,\u00a0remains open.\u00a0 (The\u00a0State Department said\u00a0it <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">suspended operations during a consulate in a southern city of Basrah<\/a> in Oct 2018.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Consulates differ from embassies in that they concentration on tasks such as helping Americans abroad and issuing\u00a0passports to adults as good as\u00a0visas to foreigners.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Iraq, that shares a western limit with Iran,\u00a0was already during <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Level 4<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"> (&#8220;Do not travel&#8221;), a top warning level<\/a> on\u00a0the State Department&#8217;s transport advisory scale before a embassy dispute due to years of armed dispute in a region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Tensions began sharpening on Dec. 27 when a rocket dispute killed a U.S. municipal executive in a northern city of Kirkuk. On Dec. 29., <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">U.S. planes inebriated sites tied to a company organisation Kataib Hezbollah<\/a>. The U.S. embassy was strike dual days later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/74194_f77a6b81-f7d3-4474-aa07-0f206aa0a0c4-123119-Iraq-Airstrikes.png\" alt=\"attack\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Early Friday internal time, a U.S. military\u00a0conducted an airstrike at\u00a0the Baghdad airfield that\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">killed Iranian Major General\u00a0Qasem Soleimani<\/a>.\u00a0The commander of a Revolutionary Guard Corp&#8217;s chosen Quds Force,\u00a0Soleimani\u00a0had orchestrated attacks on bloc bases in Iraq and was actively formulation operations opposite Americans\u00a0in a area, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - US dispute kills Iranian troops personality Qasem Soleimani\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{muted:false,bContent:false,vidNum:2}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{adsEnabled:true,awsPath:news,byline:,canonicalURL:,contentSourceCode:USAT,createDate:2020-01-03T13:06:08.279Z,credit:USA TODAY,duration:47000,headline:US airstrike in Baghdad kills Iranian troops personality Qasem Soleimani,hlsURL:https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/25cf8799-69f7-4a04-8e20-4308023b17e1\/1080p_30fps,720p_30fps,480p_30fps,master.m3u8,id:2803034001,image:{url:https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/01\/03\/USAT\/1b4a9e95-9984-4e87-b1f0-72d55ae41520-VPC_IRAN_COMMANDER_KILLED_IN_STRIKE_DESK_THUMB.00_00_13_27.Still001.jpg,opto:true},initialPublishDate:2020-01-03T13:13:31.136Z,keywords:Iranian Armed Forces,war,Video Syndication - USAT,mp4URL:https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/25cf8799-69f7-4a04-8e20-4308023b17e1\/1080p_30fps.mp4,origin:USA TODAY,pageURL:{long:https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/news\/2020\/01\/03\/us-attack-kills-iranian-military-leader-qasem-soleimani\/2803034001\/},promoBrief:The Defense Department pronounced it conducted a dispute during President Donald Trump's sequence as a defensive movement opposite Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.,publishDate:2020-01-03T13:13:31.136Z,series:,ssts:{leafName:news,path:news,section:news,storysubject:,subsection:,subtopic:,taxonomyEntityDisplayName:News,topic:},tags:[{id:3492c7d0-3cab-4aa9-ab0e-05ba6b7c12a7,name:Iranian Armed Forces},{id:4224f096-a934-4385-9c23-794059144329,name:war},{id:6f55135f-3b5e-490d-8a52-a3b8e1f11ee7,name:Video Syndication - USAT}],title:US dispute kills Iranian troops personality Qasem Soleimani,url:\/videos\/news\/2020\/01\/03\/us-attack-kills-iranian-military-leader-qasem-soleimani\/2803034001\/}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" data-g-r=\"lazy vp_po\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/2d3cb_1b4a9e95-9984-4e87-b1f0-72d55ae41520-VPC_IRAN_COMMANDER_KILLED_IN_STRIKE_DESK_THUMB.00_00_13_27.Still001.jpg\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/01\/03\/USAT\/1b4a9e95-9984-4e87-b1f0-72d55ae41520-VPC_IRAN_COMMANDER_KILLED_IN_STRIKE_DESK_THUMB.00_00_13_27.Still001.jpg?width=1320height=744fit=cropformat=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" \/><\/button><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The dispute noted a initial time a U.S. designated a arm of another supervision as a militant organization. Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded Friday, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">saying a &#8220;forceful punish awaits&#8221; a United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contributing:\u00a0Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/09ca7_2959e16a-d23d-482f-bf2f-540d884b9b00-5-north-korea.jpg\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/10\/03\/USAT\/2959e16a-d23d-482f-bf2f-540d884b9b00-5-north-korea.jpg?crop=1998,1124,x0,y185width=1320height=744format=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/614770304\/0\/usatodaycomtravel-topstories~State-Department-urges-all-Americans-to-leave-Iraq-after-US-embassy-attack\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. State Department is propelling all U.S. adults to leave Iraq after the\u00a0New Year&#8217;s Eve\u00a0attack on a embassy in Baghdad by Hashed al-Shaabi, a\u00a0pro-Iranian paramilitary group, that\u00a0caused extensive\u00a0damage to a property. &#8220;On Dec 31, 2019, a Embassy dangling open consular services, until serve notice, as a outcome of repairs finished by Iranian-backed militant attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-201385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}