{"id":639,"date":"2026-10-21T20:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/u-s-orders-some-diplomats-out-of-saudi-arabia-amid-houthi-attacks-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:30:45","slug":"u-s-orders-some-diplomats-out-of-saudi-arabia-amid-houthi-attacks-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/u-s-orders-some-diplomats-out-of-saudi-arabia-amid-houthi-attacks-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. orders some diplomats out of Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks &#8211; National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpe_imgrss\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/U.S.-orders-some-diplomats-out-of-Saudi-Arabia-amid-Houthi-attacks-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div data-article-socialshare=\"true\" readability=\"13.761658031088\">\n<div id=\"article-fontSizer\" class=\"c-fontSizer\" readability=\"34\">\n<p>\n\t\t<button class=\"c-fontSizer__button c-fontSizer__button--decrease c-button c-button--details c-button--mini\" data-trackable=\"true\" data-trackaction=\"Font Sizer Decrease Font\" data-tooltip-title=\"Decrease text size\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Descrease article font size<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"c-icon  c-fontSizer__icon\" focusable=\"false\">\n\t\t<use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/assets\/dist\/icons\/out\/symbol\/svg\/sprite.symbol.svg?v=fc5vd2ara#font-decrease\"\/>\n\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<button class=\"c-fontSizer__button c-fontSizer__button--increase c-button c-button--details c-button--mini\" data-trackable=\"true\" data-trackaction=\"Font Sizer Increase Font\" data-tooltip-title=\"Increase text size\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Increase article font size<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"c-icon  c-fontSizer__icon\" focusable=\"false\">\n\t\t<use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/assets\/dist\/icons\/out\/symbol\/svg\/sprite.symbol.svg?v=fc5vd2ara#font-increase\"\/>\n\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The U.S. State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and is planning to move out family members from a number of other U.S. missions in the Gulf, U.S. officials told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a post on X that the department ordered the departure of \u201cnon-emergency U.S. government employees and their family members in Saudi Arabia only\u201d amid attacks by the Iran-aligned\u00a0Houthis in Yemen on civilian targets in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Washington had returned some diplomatic personnel to the region in recent months after many were pulled out when Tehran launched retaliatory attacks on U.S. facilities after the US-Israeli war on Iran began in late February.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\" readability=\"5.3013698630137\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/U.S.-orders-some-diplomats-out-of-Saudi-Arabia-amid-Houthi-attacks-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\" readability=\"29.599315068493\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIranian-supported Houthis have increasingly engaged in hostilities against Saudi Arabia, including attacks on civilian airports and other critical infrastructure resulting in civilian casualties and severe travel disruptions,\u201d Pigott said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Four US officials told Reuters that U.S. missions in other Gulf states would also be ordering family members to leave. Pigott did not address changes to other missions outside Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Energy Ministry told the Associated Press on Wednesday that debris from an intercepted drone killed two people and injured two others at an Aramco-operated oil field in the country\u2019s southeast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\" readability=\"0.36492890995261\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on World<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The ministry said the two people killed were Nepali and Filipino nationals, while the injured were Pakistani and Indian nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The falling debris also sparked a fire in a contractor\u2019s vehicle at the Shaybah oil field, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. embassy in Riyadh issued a security alert on Wednesday about possible further attacks by the Houthis on Saudi Arabia, after recent deadly attacks including on Riyadh\u2019s airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>with files from The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">: World<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Descrease article font size Increase article font size The U.S. State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and is planning&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}