US Orders Embassy Staff To Leave Saudi Arabia Amid Iran’s Retaliatory Attacks

Earlier, non-emergency American citizens working at embassies were asked to leave voluntarily by the State Department. They have now been ordered to leave, marking the first "ordered departure" out of Saudi Arabia since the US-Israel strikes on Iran on February 28.

The State Department has not officially confirmed the ordered departure. They have also not responded to requests for comment on the matter from The New York Times and Bloomberg.

The mandatory evacuation order comes as the US embassies in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been targeted with drone attacks by Iran over the last eight days.