{"id":516173,"date":"2026-03-11T02:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/516173\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:26:10","slug":"over-43000-americans-have-safely-returned-from-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/516173\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 43,000 Americans have safely returned from the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Since February 28, over 43,000 Americans have safely returned to the United States from the Middle East after the start of Operation Epic Fury.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department announced that they have assisted nearly 30,000 Americans directly through its task force.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/top-videos\/over-36000-americans-safely-return-from-middle-east-as-state-department-shares-resources-tommy-pigott-interview-operation-epic-fury-iran-charter-commercial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported 36,000 Americans<\/a> had safely returned to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The department shared that it has facilitated over two dozen charter flights between the Middle East and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>While charter options through the department have been made available for Americans who have requested travel assistance, the State Department says it continues to operate with less than 40% occupancy on the flights.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>It also reported that many Americans who have requested assistance to return home have declined the department\u2019s assistance when offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Since February 28, over 43,000 Americans have safely returned to the United States from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-516173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}