UK Foreign Office issues travel warning after US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani
By The Sunday Post
January 5, 2020, 9:00 am
Boris Johnson is on holiday
British citizens were warned not to travel to Iraq yesterday after the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani by the US.
The warning came as two rockets were fired at Iraq’s Balad air base, which houses US forces. Another rocket landed near the US embassy in the city. There were no casualties.
The Foreign Office has advised against all travel to Iraq apart from essential travel to the Kurdistan region, and only essential travel to Iran.
Boris Johnson is on holiday on the private Caribbean island of Mustique. He has not commented on the general’s killing and is expected to return to No 10 today.
The Foreign Office warned that anyone in Iraq outside Kurdistan should consider leaving by commercial means because the “uncertain” security situation “could deteriorate quickly”.
Alerts for other Middle East nations were also increased, with calls for citizens to “remain vigilant” in countries including Afghanistan, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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