{"id":3560,"date":"2026-10-31T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:03:56","slug":"us-orders-non-emergency-staff-families-to-leave-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3560","title":{"rendered":"US orders non-emergency staff, families to leave Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States ordered non-emergency government employees and \u200btheir family members to \u200cleave Saudi Arabia effective October 23 due to safety \u200brisks, the US embassy \u200bin Riyadh said, \u2060citing Houthi attacks on \u200bcivilian airports and other \u200bcritical infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US government employees require special authorisation to use Saudi airports \u200bfollowing recent missile and \u200bdrone attacks, the embassy said on Friday, warning \u200cUS \u2060citizens of potential further attacks, airspace closures, flight cancellations and other travel disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bfighting \u200bbetween \u2060Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition \u200bbacking Yemen\u2019s government has \u200bintensified \u2060in recent weeks, opening a volatile new front \u2060in \u200bthe wider <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">US-Israeli war \u200bon Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States ordered non-emergency government employees and \u200btheir family members to \u200cleave Saudi Arabia effective October 23 due to safety \u200brisks, the US embassy \u200bin Riyadh said, \u2060citing Houthi attacks on \u200bcivilian airports and other \u200bcritical infrastructure. US government employees require special authorisation to use Saudi airports \u200bfollowing recent missile and \u200bdrone attacks, the embassy said on Friday, warning \u200cUS \u2060citizens of potential further attacks, airspace closures, flight cancellations and other travel disruptions. The \u200bfighting \u200bbetween \u2060Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition \u200bbacking Yemen\u2019s government has \u200bintensified \u2060in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}