The US State Department says it has ordered non-emergency personnel and their families to leave Bahrain and Jordan, as well as announcing it had ordered staff in Iraq to leave a day earlier, as Iran retaliates to US-Israeli strikes.
The department, in a post on X, says it has updated travel advisories for Bahrain and Jordan “to reflect the ordered departure of non-emergency US government personnel and family members of government personnel.”
In an updated Iraq travel advisory, the department says it had “ordered non-emergency US government employees to leave Iraq due to security concerns” the day before.
The State Department order comes after the US urged its citizens yesterday to leave the Middle East from Egypt eastward amid plans to intensify strikes on Iran.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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