{"id":19484,"date":"2026-03-14T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/19484\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:13:07","slug":"americans-in-iraq-should-leave-immediately-us-embassy-in-baghdad-urges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/19484\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans in Iraq should leave \u2018immediately,\u2019 US Embassy in Baghdad urges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy in Baghdad has warned Americans inside to leave Iraq \u201cimmediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USEmbBaghdad\/status\/2032865661869797409\" rel=\"nofollow\">security alert posted by the embassy<\/a> cites \u201cindiscriminate attacks\u201d carried out and threatened by Iran-aligned terror militias \u2013 including a missile attack that hit a helipad at the US embassy Saturday inside the fortified \u201cGreen Zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38780365\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/u-s-embassy-seen-across-123535027.jpg\" alt=\"American flag waving over the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, across the Tigris River.\" class=\"wp-image-38780365\"  \/>The US Embassy in Baghdad has warned Americans inside to leave the country \u201cimmediately.\u201d AP<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38780341\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-embassy-Baghdad.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke rises from industrial buildings at the US Embassy in Baghdad.\" class=\"wp-image-38780341\"  \/>A security alert posted by the embassy cites \u201cindiscriminate attacks\u201d carried out and threatened by Iran-aligned terror militias.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran-aligned terrorist militias have attacked the International Zone in central Baghdad on multiple occasions,\u201d the embassy wrote in a statement posted on X. \u201cRepeated attacks have also occurred in the vicinity of Erbil International Airport and the Consulate General. Do not attempt to come to the Embassy in Baghdad or the Consulate General in Erbil due to the ongoing risk of rockets, drones, and mortars in Iraqi airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is an ongoing State Department \u201cdo not travel\u201d warning for the country, which borders Iran.<\/p>\n<p>It says terror militias pose a \u201cmajor threat to public safety\u201d in the country, where the US has maintained bases since the Iraq War that began in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>US citizens should \u201cleave immediately,\u201d although commercial flights don\u2019t currently exist. The embassy advises land routes through Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Embassy in Baghdad has warned Americans inside to leave Iraq \u201cimmediately.\u201d A security alert posted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1711,34,94,49,8635,1752,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-19484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-baghdad","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-militias","13":"tag-us-embassy","14":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116229125239383047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}