by Theleaders-Online | January 8, 2020 4:47 am
The Philippines has ordered a mandatory evacuation for Filipinos in Iraq, its foreign ministry said today after Iran attacked American forces there in response to a US strike that killed an Iranian general last week.
“The Alert Level in the entire Iraq has been raised to Alert Level 4 calling for mandatory evacuation,” said Eduardo Menez, spokesman at the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Iran’s missile attack on US-led forces in Iraq came in the early hours of Wednesday, hours after the funeral of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the country’s elite Quds Force who was killed in a US drone strike on Jan 3.
Reuters
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