U.S. missions in Baghdad and Erbil are evacuating most diplomats in response to unspecified security threats, according to one former and two current U.S. officials.

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, U.

While Iran insists its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes, the West believes Tehran is close to getting its own nuclear warhead through uranium enrichment