The U.S. military said on Tuesday that there were possible imminent threats to U.S. troops in Iraq, who were now at a high level of alert, and underscored concerns about Iranian-backed forces in the region."
(The U.S. mission) is now at a high level of alert as we continue to closely monitor credible and possibly imminent threats to U.S. forces in Iraq," said Navy Captain Bill Urban, a spokesman at the U.S. military's Central Command, as he sought to clarify contradictory remarks by a British commander earlier on Tuesday.