{"id":560215,"date":"2026-04-02T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560215\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:59:08","slug":"u-s-tells-americans-in-iraq-to-leave-immediately-amid-threat-from-iran-backed-militias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560215\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. tells Americans in Iraq to leave immediately amid threat from Iran-backed militias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1j\">Futures tracking Wall Street\u2019s main indexes fell this morning in the last session of a holiday-truncated week after President Donald Trump\u00a0signaled\u00a0more aggressive attacks on Iran, dampening expectations for a swift end to the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1m\">After Trump floated the possibility of strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure, oil\u00a0prices\u00a0surged about 7%, taking Brent crude futures to $108 per barrel. Energy stocks in the U.S. climbed, with Exxon Mobil\u00a0and Chevron\u00a0up 3.1% and 2.6%, respectively, in premarket trading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1p\">\u201cUncertainty is kryptonite for markets and between the contradictory messages from Trump, disputed claims on both sides, and the lack of clarity on a plan that can provide a resolution to the conflict, they are getting a heavy dose of it,\u201d said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1s\">Still, Wall Street\u2019s three indexes looked set to post their biggest weekly rise in four months. This would be their first week of gains in six. Earlier this week, markets were optimistic that an end to the war was near.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Futures tracking Wall Street\u2019s main indexes fell this morning in the last session of a holiday-truncated week after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-560215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}