The United States has ordered non-emergency government personnel and their families to leave several Middle Eastern nations, including Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, and Jordan.
The directive comes as Washington closed multiple diplomatic missions across the region due to the rapidly escalating conflict involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran.
The broader security situation has prompted heightened precautions at diplomatic facilities across the region.
Authorities have also restricted non-essential travel to military installations as the airspace in many areas remains closed, leaving numerous foreign nationals stranded.
The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia closed on Tuesday after the Saudi Defense Ministry confirmed the embassy was attacked by two Iranian drones. American citizens in cities such as Jeddah, Riyadh, and Dhahran have been instructed to continue sheltering in place while the security situation develops.
Additionally, the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait announced it will remain closed until further notice, cancelling all consular appointments following a separate attack the previous day. In Israel, the U.S. Embassy stated it cannot currently evacuate or directly assist Americans seeking to leave, advising citizens to formulate independent security and travel plans.
U.S. President Donald Trump stated the campaign's objectives are to destroy Iran's missile capabilities, eliminate its navy, and prevent the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Trump added that the operations are intended to stop Tehran from supporting allied groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah. Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed Congress that the hardest military strikes are still to come, warning the conflict could last for several weeks.
Iranian forces have retaliated by striking various targets across the Gulf. Recent impacts include drone attacks on commercial data centers in the United Arab Emirates and infrastructure in Bahrain, signalling a potential prolonged conflict.
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Follow the latest developments and global reaction after the U.S. and Israel launched “major combat operations” in Iran, prompting retaliation from Tehran.
Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant Saudi Aramco closed its Ras Tanura refinery on Monday following an Iranian drone strike, an industry source told Reuters as Tehran retaliated across the Gulf after a U.S.-Israeli attack on Iranian targets over the weekend.
The Kremlin is utilising the recent United States and Israeli military strikes on Iran to validate its ongoing war in Ukraine. Russian officials are pointing to the escalation in the Middle East as evidence that Western nations do not adhere to international rules.
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Ayatollah Alireza Arafi has moved into a pivotal constitutional role following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, becoming the clerical member of Iran’s temporary leadership council under Article 111 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Israeli military has begun a new wave of strikes on Tehran, it said late on Monday. The strikes came after it issued an evacuation warning for residents in Tehran, particularly those residing near state broadcaster IRIB's headquarters.
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Entrances to Iran's underground and previously bombed uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz have been struck as part of the U.S.-Israeli military attacks on the country, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEZ) confirmed on Tuesday (3 March).
The Israeli military deployed additional forces to southern Lebanon overnight, to take up what a military spokesperson on Tuesday (3 March) described as "defensive positions" aimed at protecting Israeli civilians and strategic sites from potential Hezbollah attacks.
Shahid Motahari Sub-Speciality Hospital in northern Tehran and parts of the Golestan Palace were bombed on day two of the U.S.‑Israel strikes. AnewZ Touraj Shiralilou is in Iran's capital city and said that the facility was flattened in an airstrike.
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