{"id":15422,"date":"2014-06-16T23:43:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15422"},"modified":"2014-06-16T23:43:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:43:05","slug":"canadas-charge-daffaires-leaves-iraq-as-security-situation-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/16\/canadas-charge-daffaires-leaves-iraq-as-security-situation-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s charge d&#8217;affaires leaves Iraq as security situation worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15354\" style=\"width: 1096px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jihad-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15354\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jihad-8.jpg\" alt=\"ISIS photo release \" width=\"1096\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jihad-8.jpg 1096w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jihad-8-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jihad-8-1024x575.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1096px) 100vw, 1096px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ISIS photo release<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; A Foreign Affairs spokesman says security concerns forced Canada&#8217;s acting charge d&#8217;affaires to leave Iraq yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>John Babcock says the government will now be reassessing its diplomatic presence in Iraq on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs earlier issued an advisory against all travel to Iraq, warning the situation there is growing increasingly dangerous and unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Qaida-inspired militants captured the key cities of Mosul and Tikrit last week and say Baghdad is their next target.<\/p>\n<p>Babcock said in an email to The Canadian Press Sunday night that the security of Canadian officials abroad is a top priority.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s embassy to Iraq and Jordan is based in the Jordanian capital Amman.<\/p>\n<p>Washington, meantime, has moved some U.S. embassy staff out of Baghdad, and has also deployed three war ships, including an aircraft carrier, to the Persian Gulf to protect American interests in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; A Foreign Affairs spokesman says security concerns forced Canada&#8217;s acting charge d&#8217;affaires to leave Iraq yesterday. John Babcock &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[398,5430,1842],"class_list":["post-15422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-canada","tag-charges-daffaires","tag-iraq","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}