Four employees of French Christian charity in Iraq missing

The four members of the influential SOS Chretiens d'Orient charity went missing near the French embassy in the Iraqi capital, the organisation's director Benjamin Blanchard told a news conference in Paris. PARIS: Three French nationals and one Iraqi working with a French Christian charity in Iraq have been missing since Monday, the group announced on Friday .

They left their hotel by car for a meeting"which posed no problem," Blanchard said, adding that French and Iraqi authorities were working together to try locate them. But in recent weeks America's military presence in Iraq has become a hot-button issue since a US drone strike killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and a top Iraqi commander in Baghdad on Jan 3.

Photos regularly published by the non-government organisation on Twitter show volunteers visiting Christian families in Arbil and conducting French language classes. By the summer of 2019, their number had fallen to around 250,000, Arbil Archbishop Bashar Warda said during a speech in Britain last year, warning the community was"close to extinction".

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