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Washington orders US embassy staff, families to leave Saudi Arabia

Al-Monitor21 October 2026, 21:30 UTCUnited States of America

Washington has ordered non-essential US embassy staff and their families to leave Saudi Arabia, the State Department said on Wednesday, as the kingdom comes under sustained deadly attacks by Yemen's Houthis. It came after a diplomatic source told AFP that "all American staff and their families have been ordered to depart from the US embassy" in the Gulf kingdom.

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