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US orders diplomats to depart Saudi Arabia amid Houthi strikes
Reuters · 4 hours ago · Read the Full Story on Reuters
AI SUMMARY
The US State Department has ordered non-emergency personnel and families to leave Saudi Arabia following escalating Houthi attacks that have caused casualties.
- The US State Department ordered non-emergency government employees and their families to depart from Saudi Arabia.
- Four US officials reported that US missions in other Gulf states would also order family members to leave.
- Attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis at a civilian airport in Dammam killed one person and injured eight others.
- Two people were killed in a drone attack targeting an oil facility at Saudi Aramco's Shaybah oilfield.
- The withdrawals follow an escalation of fighting in Yemen as part of the broader regional conflict tied to the US-Israeli war on Iran.
- The US embassy in Riyadh issued a security alert warning of possible further Houthi attacks after recent deadly strikes in the country.
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