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#BREAKING Iraq's pro-Iran Hashed orders supporters to withdraw from US embassy
#BREAKING Hardline Iraq faction rejects order to leave US embassy, says official
#UPDATE Supporters of Iraq's pro-Iranian force Hashed al-Shaabi have begun leaving the encircled US embassy in Baghdad but hardliners insist they will stay, a day after their dramatic incursion into the compound u.afp.com/JtHZ
#BREAKING Pro-Iran protesters fully withdraw from US embassy in Baghdad
#UPDATE Pro-Iran demonstrators have left the besieged US embassy in Baghdad after the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force ordered them to withdraw a day after their dramatic incursion u.afp.com/JtHZ
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US Amb. to Iraq & remaining staff at US Embassy leave Baghdad through the Iraqi capital's International Airport.

This follows recent U.S. airstrikes targeting #Iran-backed Kata'ib Hezbollah positions & Tehran-backed groups vowing retaliation.
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 Massive explosion rocks the Dora district of southern Baghdad, Iraq.
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