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DUBAI, March 3- The U.S. on Tuesday ordered non-emergency \u200bgovernment personnel and their family members \u200cto leave the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq and Jordan and closed several \u200bdiplomatic missions across the region as\u00a0tensions \u200bwith Iran<\/a>\u00a0escalated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The U.S. Mission to Saudi \u2060Arabia was closed following a drone attack<\/a>, \u200bwith Americans in Jeddah, Riyadh and Dhahran \u200btold to continue sheltering in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait said it would remain closed until \u200bfurther notice, and all regular and \u200bemergency consular appointments were cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Israel, the \u200cU.S. \u2060Embassy said it was not in a position to evacuate or directly assist Americans seeking to leave the country and advised \u200bcitizens to \u200bmake \u2060their own security plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The measures come as the conflict<\/a> involving the \u200bU.S., Israel and Iranwidens across \u200bthe \u2060region<\/a>, prompting heightened security precautions at U.S. diplomatic facilities and restrictions on non-essential travel \u2060to \u200bmilitary installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reuters: DUBAI, March 3- The U.S. on Tuesday ordered non-emergency \u200bgovernment personnel and their family members \u200cto leave the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq and Jordan and closed several \u200bdiplomatic missions across the region as\u00a0tensions \u200bwith Iran\u00a0escalated. The U.S. Mission to Saudi \u2060Arabia was closed following a drone attack, \u200bwith Americans in Jeddah, Riyadh and Dhahran \u200btold to continue sheltering in place. The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait said it would remain closed until \u200bfurther notice, and all regular and \u200bemergency consular appointments were cancelled. In Israel, the \u200cU.S. \u2060Embassy said it was not in a position to evacuate or… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55147,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55145\/revisions\/55147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}