The UK draws up plans to evacuate troops from Iraq as fear of Iran reprisals grow following Qassem Soleimani's funeral

Nazanin Tabatabaee/West Asia News Agency via Reuters

• The UK is stepping up contingency plans to evacuate troops and other British personnel from Iraq.
• The news comes amid growing fears that reprisal attacks from Iran on the US and its allies are imminent.
• It follows the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the influential Iranian military commander, who was killed by a US airstrike in Baghdad last week.
• The US was forced to deny on Monday that it was planning to withdraw soldiers from Iraq after a leaked draft letter from a senior military official suggested it would be preparing troops for "movement out" of the country.

The UK has stepped up emergency plans to evacuate British troops and other military personnel from Iraq amid growing fears of revenge attacks by Iran.

The Ministry of Defence sent around 20 senior military planners and liaison officers to the Baghdad embassy on the weekend, according to a report in the Times.

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