Showing posts with label evacuating Iraqi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evacuating Iraqi. Show all posts

Thursday, June 12, 2014

US companies evacuating Iraqi air base



As AFP informs, US companies were Thursday evacuating hundreds of Americans working with the Iraqi government from a major air base, US officials said, as Islamic militants swept towards Baghdad.

A US defense official confirmed that "a few hundred" American contractors from Balad air base, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of the capital, were being moved to Baghdad for security reasons.

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