US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has met Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in Baghdad, an Iraqi government source says.
The visit to Iraq on Tuesday came after Pompeo cancelled a planned visit to Berlin, citing "international security issues".
The US has said in recent days it was sending a carrier strike force to the Middle East to counter a "credible threat" by Iranian regime forces, and that it had seen activity from Iran that indicated what it called an escalation.
The Iraqi government source did not elaborate on the details of the meeting with Abdul Mahdi.
Washington has ramped up sanctions pressure on Iraq's neighbour Iran in recent months including against Iranian-backed Iraqi militant groups.
