{"id":24523,"date":"2026-10-22T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/us-reduces-forces-middle-east-nonessential-staff-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:46:18","slug":"us-reduces-forces-middle-east-nonessential-staff-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/us-reduces-forces-middle-east-nonessential-staff-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"US Reduces Forces in Middle East and Withdraws Non-Essential Staff from Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to rising threats in the Middle East, the US State Department has ordered a reduction in the number of staff not connected to emergency missions, as well as their families, in Saudi Arabia. The move comes alongside the departure of some non-essential government personnel.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News, citing US officials, reported that the US military has in recent days reduced its military presence in various parts of the Middle East. The State Department also said it had ordered a reduction in staff at some US diplomatic missions in the region.<\/p>\n<p>However, a State Department spokesperson rejected a Reuters report that employees had been ordered to leave US embassies in other Gulf countries, stressing that the order applies only to non-essential staff in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, CNN, citing informed sources, reported that following threats made by the Houthi movement, US diplomatic missions in the Middle East are reducing their staff numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has reduced military presence in the Middle East and ordered non-essential staff and families to leave Saudi Arabia amid rising threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523","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=24523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}