US Orders Some Embassy Staff to Leave Saudi Arabia After Deadly Attacks
Key points Washington ordered non-emergency US government employees and family members to depart from its Saudi missions. The order followed deadly attacks at an airport in Dammam and an oil field. Reports of possible family departures elsewhere in the Gulf had not become a region-wide announced order. The United States has ordered some diplomatic personnel and family members to leave Saudi Arabia as attacks on civilian and energy facilities raise security concerns. The State Department described the measure as applying to non-emergency US government employees and their families in Saudi Arabia. It is a precaution affecting the staffing of diplomatic missions, not a declaration that all Americans must leave the country. The decision followed an attack at King Fahd International Airport in Dammam that killed at least one person and injured eight, and a drone strike at an oil field that killed two people, according to Reuters. The US embassy in Riyadh warned of the possibility of ...