Filipinos in Iraq are being urged by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to come home as the situation in that country continued to deteriorate on Saturday.

The DFA raised the crisis alert for all areas in Iraq to Alert Level 3 except for the Iraqi Kurdistan region which remains under Alert Level 1. Under alert level 3, voluntary repatriation is recommended. Filipinos in areas under alert level 1 were told to be vigilant.

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