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Non-emergency US embassy staffers, families authorized to leave Saudi Arabia and Oman
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe US State Department has given its non-emergency personnel and their families in Saudi Arabia and Oman permission to leave, the US embassies in both Gulf states say, as Iran launches retaliatory strikes in response to US-Israeli air raids.
The department “authorized non-emergency US government employees and US government employee family members to leave” Saudi Arabia and Oman “due to safety risks,” the US embassies in Riyadh and Muscat say in advisories on their websites.
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