continues to escalate<\/a>, the US State Department announced Thursday.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cWhile there have been no reported injuries to US personnel, the safety of Americans abroad remains the highest priority of the US Department of State,\u201d the department said in a media note.\n <\/p>\n
\n The full closure of the embassy speaks to the high level of risk faced by US personnel on the ground. The embassy had been hit several times by suspected Iranian drones.\n <\/p>\n
\n It had already suspended all routine consular services and ordered the departure of non-emergency personnel and their family members. The State Department is likely to withdraw additional remaining personnel now that the embassy has closed.\n <\/p>\n
\n The media note advises US citizens in Kuwait to \u201cdepart the country, if they can do so safely, using commercial or other available transportation options.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n US citizens who are \u201cunable to depart should shelter in place,\u201d it said.\n <\/p>\n
\n US citizens \u201crequiring emergency assistance, including consular services and information on available departure options, may contact the Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Consular Affairs 24\/7 at +1-202-501-4444 (from abroad) and +1-888-407-4747 (from the United States and Canada),\u201d it said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on Thursday with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and \u201cexpressed gratitude to the foreign minister for Kuwait\u2019s steadfast response to attacks and threats from the Iranian regime.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey also discussed ongoing US operations to counter those threats, as well as other developments in the region,\u201d according to a readout from the State Department.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See daily life in Kuwait City as war in region continues to escalate See daily life in Kuwait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,7788,21627,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-323743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-hnk","tag-intl","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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