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After delay, 13 Pinoys from Iraq back in PH

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 15 08:51 PM

The group was supposed to fly out of Baghdad via Doha at 10:30 p.m. on Monday night (3:30 a.m. Tuesday, Manila time) but was not able to fly out of the Baghdad International Airport due to exit visa problems. Read more »

Paglikas ng unang batch ng mga OFW mula sa Baghdad, Iraq, inaayos pa

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 01:39 AM

Hindi pa rin nakakaalis sa Baghdad, Iraq ang unang batch ng mga overseas Filipino workers na kabilang sa mga pinauuwi na ng Pilipinas.  Read more »

12 Filipinos repatriated from Iraq to arrive in Manila Tuesday

Maxxy Santiago, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 14 01:24 AM

Twelve Filipinos, including 2 minors, will be arriving in the Philippines early Tuesday from Iraq, the Philippine Embassy in Baghdad said. Read more »

US believes Iran military accidentally shot down Ukraine airliner

Paul Handley, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 10 04:29 AM

US officials believe that Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner, killing all of the 176 people on board. Read more »

Ina nag-aalala sa kaligtasan ng anak na nagtatrabaho sa Iraq

Bonna Pamplona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 10 01:16 AM

DAVAO CITY—Nababahala ang isang ina para sa seguridad ng kaniyang anak na nagtatrabaho sa Iraq sa kabila ng tensiyon sa pagitan ng Amerika at Iran. Read more »

'Pay $8k before you leave': Pinoys in Baghdad held by employer seek PH gov't help

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 09 09:25 AM

Filipinos working in Baghdad are seeking help from the Philippine government after their employer asked them to pay $8,000 before they can join the mandatory repatriation from Iraq. Read more »

2 rockets hit Iraqi capital's Green Zone: security sources

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 09 06:48 AM

Two rockets crashed late Wednesday into the Iraqi capital's Green Zone, the high-security enclave where foreign embassies including the US mission are based. Read more »

US House to vote on preventing Trump from Iran war

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 09 06:39 AM

The Democratic-led US House of Representatives will vote Thursday to prevent President Donald Trump from waging war with Iran after he ordered the killing of a top general. Read more »

The ANC Brief: Showdown

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 09 04:06 AM

The Duterte administration is sending a former special envoy to the Middle East to oversee the evacuation of Filipinos. Read more »

Philippines sending 'biggest aircraft, ships' to bring home Filipinos in Middle East

Chiara Zambrano, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 09 02:23 AM

“We are ready to deploy within 72 hours,” said Empedrad, adding it would take around three weeks to sail from the Philippines to the Middle East. Read more »

Outgunned, Iran invests in means to indirectly confront superpower enemy

Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters
Posted at Jan 08 06:04 PM

The Gulf country has more than 500,000 active-duty personnel, including 125,000 members of its elite Revolutionary Guards, according to a report last year by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. But international sanctions and restrictions on arms imports have made it hard for Iran to develop or buy more sophisticated weaponry. Read more »

Philippines to deploy troops to Iraq for OFW evacuation

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 08 02:29 PM

The Philippines will send soldiers to help repatriate Filipinos from Iraq, where the killing of an Iranian general in a US drone strike stoked fresh tensions, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Wednesday.  Read more »

Asian shares slump; gold, oil soar after Iran strike on US forces

Andrew Galbraith, Reuters
Posted at Jan 08 11:21 AM

Iran's missile attacks on the Ain Al-Asad air base and another in Erbil, Iraq, early Wednesday came hours after the funeral of an Iranian commander whose killing in a US drone strike has raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East. Read more »

Pompeo was behind Trump's leap to assassinate Iran general

Edward Wong and Lara Jakes, The New York Times
Posted at Jan 08 08:26 AM

WASHINGTON — Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the loudest voice in the administration pushing President Donald Trump to kill Iran’s most important general. This week, he is back in his role as the nation’s top diplomat, trying to contain the international crisis the general’s death created. Read more »

Foreign troop deployments in Iraq

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 06:32 AM

Here are the countries that have made announcements about temporary withdrawals or remaining in Iraq. Read more »

US insists no plans to pull out of Iraq

Paul Handley, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 06:15 AM

Trump said withdrawing the more than 5,000 US troops in Iraq would be the "worst thing" for that country. Read more »

Filipinos in Iraq to be repatriated; highest crisis alert raised

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 08 10:03 AM

Alert level 4 has been raised over Iraq amid rising tension following the United States' killing of an Iranian military commander, the Philippine Embassy in Iraq said early Wednesday (Manila time). Read more »

US official defends legality of killing Iran's Soleimani

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 01:48 AM

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended Tuesday the legality of the US drone strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and any future military action against Iran. Read more »

Soleimani, 'living martyr' who rose above Iran rifts

Marc Jourdier, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 01:00 AM

"People witnessed that he never took financial advantage of his position for his personal life." Read more »

US military tells Iraq it is preparing to 'move out': official letter

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 07 05:55 AM

The US military informed its counterparts in Baghdad on Monday it was preparing for "movement out of Iraq," a day after the Iraqi parliament urged the government to oust foreign troops. Read more »