LEAVE IRAQ NOW: The American Embassy in Iraq has warned U.S. citizens to leave the country immediately because Iran-affiliated militant groups may target U.S. citizens and their associates within 24 to 48 hours.

Do Not Travel warning for Iraq — its highest advisory level — saying plainly: “Do not travel to Iraq for any reason. Leave now if you are there.” Officials emphasize that Americans who choose to

"Terrorist militias have targeted Americans for kidnapping," U.S. officials say.

A month after the war in Iran started, workers at ports and oil fields in the province of Basra, where almost all of Iraq’s crude is produced and exported, have grown accustomed to rockets streaking across the sky, aimed at U.S. air bases and other strategic facilities.

Iraq has qualified for the World Cup with a win over Bolivia in a FIFA World Cup intercontinental playoff final on March 31.

The U.S. Embassy in Iraq warned Americans in the Middle East on Thursday to “leave now” as U.S.-Israeli attacks on and retaliatory strikes from Iran intensify days after an American journalist in Iraq was kidnapped by an Iran-backed militia group.

Iraq will end their 40-year wait to appear at a World Cup this summer Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP via It was in the hour that followed the full-time whistle inside Monterrey’s Estadio BBVA that the significance of the moment struck Ali Al-Hamadi.

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