The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday ordered the mandatory evacuation of Filipino workers in Iraq, except in the Kurdistan area, because of the worsening political insecurity in the strife-torn country.

Crisis alert level three was raised in the whole of Iraq—except the Kurdistan area, which is under alert level 1—weeks ago.

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