The State Department on Wednesday ordered all “non-emergency U.S. government employees” to leave Iraq amid soaring tensions with Iran, which backs proxy forces there.
It said in a statement that the announcement affects both the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Baghdad, and a consulate in the northern city of Irbil.
“Normal visa services at both posts will be temporarily suspended,” the department said. “The U.S. government has limited ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens in Iraq.”

With the fundraising dinner season just around the corner, this is the perfect time for organizations and fundraisers to harness the power of The Chesed Fund’s commission free fundraising platform and maximize the funds raised for the event.
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Tatty, I love learning Gemara!
That’s one of the sweetest sentences a father could hear!
Unfortunately, too many of all our children never gain an affinity for gemara learning.
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‘Life, Liberty and Levin’ host Mark Levin weighs in on the FISA scandal and Democrats’ inability to accept the outcome of the Mueller report.
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Majority leader Sen. Mitch McConnell reacts to the Senate Intelligence Committee issuing a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr.
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Two Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of setting up a “dark” internet site that was used to buy weapons, drugs and stolen credit cards, Israeli police said on Tuesday.
The suspects, in their mid-30s, were arrested during a joint investigation with the FBI and Israel’s cyber crime unit. Further arrests were made in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Brazil.
“The suspects were arrested after setting up an internet site that was in the ‘dark,’” the police said in a statement.
“The dark internet site was used for illegal activities and crimes.”
“The site had been active for a long period of time and millions of dollars of transactions had been made on the site.”

Since the release of the Mueller report, Democrats have gone on the attack against Attorney General William Barr.
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Eric Trump weighs in on his father’s success with boosting the U.S. economy and the left’s and media’s assault on the Trump administration on ‘Hannity.’
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Powerful and inspirational remarks by Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson at the “Peace & Unity Gathering” in response to the terror attack in the Chabad Synsagogue of Poway, CA., on Shabbat, the last day if Passover, April 27, 2019. This lecture, which brought together many communities from NJ, took place at Chabad at Short Hills, NJ, two days later, on Monday, April 29, 2019, during the funeral of Lori Kay, who was murdered in the Poway Chabad Center.
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