US urges citizens to immediately leave over a dozen Middle East countries
Al Jazeera
The latest advisory includes Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, according to a State Department official.
The US Department of State has urged all Americans to immediately depart more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, amid escalating US-Israeli strikes against Iran.
The warning issued on Monday came after the State Department, in recent days, updated its travel advisories for several regional countries to recommend against travel.
The latest advisory applies to Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
In a statement posted on X, Mora Namdar, the State Department’s assistant secretary for consular affairs, said US citizens should “DEPART NOW” from the countries listed using available commercial transportation “due to serious safety risks”.
The US Embassy in Amman, Jordan, announced earlier on Monday that its personnel had departed the diplomatic site “due to a threat”.
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