Chevron, the No. 2 oil company in America, announced it would evacuate its American employees from Iraq following a U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad.
The company said on Monday that it would pull them out of the Kurdistan Region, located in Iraq’s north, a “precautionary measure” amid escalating tensions and bellicose rhetoric in the wake of Gen. Qassam Soleimani’s death last week, according to CNN. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was killed to prevent a war and had received intelligence he was plotting attacks on Americans.
