NPR News: 03-14-2026 5PM EDT

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. More airstrikes have been carried out on the U. S. Embassy in Baghdad. sources, no casualties have been reported. This says the U. S. warns Americans in the country to leave immediately overland to another country because commercial flights have been canceled. The warning says militias tied to Iran have carried out several attacks on targets associated with the United States. S. NPR's Jane Araf has more. He asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The U. S. military had no immediate comment. A strike in Baghdad blamed by Iraned-back militias on the U. S. and Israel, killed at least one leader of the militant group, Kitab Hezbollah, one of Iraq's main Iran-backed groups, according to a militia source. He also asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak about the issue. He said the leader of the group, who was believed to be the target, escaped unhurt. Jane Araf and Pierre News, Irbil, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. But he says the U. S. didn't hit oil infrastructure. Professor of Modern European History at Cornell University, Nicholas Mulder. It's an island that's far offshore because it's the only place where big oil carrying ships can easily dock. And one advantage in the current situation for Iran is that it's relatively far north in the Persian Gulf, so it's still quite a