US contractors stranded in Iraq under threat of imminent attack: ‘We are sitting ducks’

More than 200 Americans at Balad site say they have no evacuation plan as fears grow of a post-Ramadan assault

Hundreds of US contractors are stranded on a major military base near Baghdad, Iraq, with no evacuation plan, while local Iran-backed militants are possibly making plans to attack the base, three sources said.

The contractors are employed on the Martyr Brigadier General Ali Flaih Air Base, formerly Balad Air Base, to support the Iraqi government’s F-16 fighter jet program.