The US has ordered its non-emergency government personnel to leave six Middle Eastern countries and told American citizens to leave 14.
Staff in Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE have been told to leave with their families by the US State Department “due to safety risks”.
It comes after attacks on American embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, with other US embassies issuing shelter-in-place warnings.
Last night Mora Namdar, US assistant secretary of state, told Americans in 14 countries across the region to “depart now via commercial means due to serious safety risks”.
She urged US citizens to leave Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syira, the UAE and Yemen.