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US evacuates personnel from Middle East in sign of growing regional tension

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The US State Department says its reducing its diplomatic presence in Iraq.

Officials are not saying exactly what’s prompted the move, but the State Department says it is due to “heightened regional tensions.”

The decision comes ahead of a sixth round of talks between the US and Iran on Tehran’s nuclear programme.

 

Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reports.

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