The Foreign Ministry calls in view of the current situation to continue for the immediate departure of the following parts of the country of Iraq:
Ninewa province (provincial capital Mosul)
Anbar province (provincial capital Ramadi)
Salah al-Din province (provincial capital Tikrit)
Diyala province (provincial capital Baquba)
Tamim province (provincial capital Kirkuk)
Also for the greater Baghdad area and the northern part of the province of Babylon is strongly recommended a temporary departure.
Since then, the terrorist organization ISIS has brought early June 2014 large parts of the province of Ninewa under its control and has advanced into other parts of the province of Salah Al-Din and in the province of Diyala, there must continue with heavy attacks and open hostilities between ISIS allies and the Iraqi security forces, regional Kurdish peshmerga militias and are also expected with US air strikes. Since the beginning of August 2014 which mainly the Greater Mosul is concerned. Current threat situation also applies to the province of Anbar, expand their control in the terrorist forces and it currently comes back to major armed conflicts and refugee movements. In the province of Tamim, are regularly fights between terrorist groups and the Kurdish peshmerga.
