{"id":23702,"date":"2026-10-11T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/11\/us-condemns-riyadh-airport-attack-american-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T10:02:15","slug":"us-condemns-riyadh-airport-attack-american-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/11\/us-condemns-riyadh-airport-attack-american-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Condemns Riyadh Airport Attack, Says American Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the recent attacks on Saudi Arabia and said a U.S. citizen was killed in the attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the U.S. secretary of state said the attacks &#8220;must stop now&#8221; and stressed that Washington &#8220;stands with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came after Saudi Arabia\u2019s General Authority of Civil Aviation said Saturday\u2019s attack on Riyadh airport left 12 people dead. According to the authority, four of the victims were Saudi citizens and two were Bangladeshi nationals, while the others who were killed were reported to be from the United States, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>The authority also said 309 other people were injured in the incident and that the condition of several of the wounded was critical. According to Saudi Arabia\u2019s General Authority of Civil Aviation, the attack also damaged parts of the airport\u2019s property and facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. condemned an attack on Riyadh airport, saying an American was among the dead and 309 others were wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}