{"id":24525,"date":"2026-10-22T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/us-reduces-middle-east-military-presence-non-essential-staff-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:46:18","slug":"us-reduces-middle-east-military-presence-non-essential-staff-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/us-reduces-middle-east-military-presence-non-essential-staff-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"US cuts military presence in Middle East, withdraws non-essential staff from Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid escalating threats in the Middle East, the US State Department has ordered a reduction in the number of staff not involved in emergency missions, along with 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 American military has in recent days reduced its military presence across several 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 said an order had been issued for staff to leave US embassies in other Gulf states, stressing that the directive applies only to non-essential staff in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, CNN reported, citing informed sources, that in light of threats made by the Houthis, US diplomatic missions in the Middle East are reducing their staff numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has reduced troop presence in the Middle East and ordered non-essential staff and families out of Saudi Arabia amid rising threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24525","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\/24525","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=24525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}