The U.S. State Department said in a travel advisory that American citizens may wish to leave Israel and the self-rule areas because of growing tensions between the United States and Iraq. “Iraq’s continued defiance of the will of the international community,” the advisory said, “is heightening the level of risk to American citizens in the Middle East.”
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