US Iraq evacuation: Embassy staff ordered to leave amid security risks

The United States is preparing a partial evacuation of its Iraqi embassy and will allow military dependents to leave locations around the Middle East due to heightened security risks in the region, US and Iraqi sources said.

The four US and two Iraqi sources did not specify which security risks had prompted the decision to evacuate and the State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Oil prices rose on the report of the evacuation.

Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi joins live from Washington DC.

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