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From Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is drawing down the presence of staffers who are not deemed essential to operations in the Middle East and their loved ones due to the potential for regional unrest, the State Department and military said Wednesday.
The State Department said it has ordered the departure of all nonessential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad based on its latest review and a commitment “to keeping Americans safe, both at home and abroad.” The embassy already had been on limited staffing, and the order will not affect a large number of personnel.
The department, however, also is authorizing the departure of nonessential personnel and family members from Bahrain and Kuwait. That gives them the option of leaving those countries at government expense and with government assistance.
The department has authorized “the voluntary departure” of troops’ dependents from locations across the region, U.S. Central Command said in a statement, the order reportedly coming from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
The command “is monitoring the developing tension in the Middle East,” the statement said.
The Pentagon is prepared to support evacuation of US personnel from Baghdad Embassy due to potential regional unrest.
Trump confirmed the reports from the Kennedy Center in Washington on Wednesday evening, where he was attending the opening production of “Les Miserables.”
“They are being moved out, because it could be a dangerous place, and we’ll see what happens,” he said. “We’ve given notice to move out, and we’ll see what happens.”
POTUS on embassy evacuations. “Well, they are being moved out because it could be a dangerous place, and we’ll see what happens.”
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“Why are U.S. dependents of military personnel being evacuated from the Middle East?”
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The DOD confirms that the US has authorized the voluntary departure of military dependents at locations across the CENTCOM AOR, per Axios.
“CENTCOM is monitoring the developing tension in the Middle East” pic.twitter.com/NUqLgYv8f0
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 11, 2025
U.S. Embassies and other diplomatic sites in countries across the Middle East are being prepared for evacuation, after Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh threatened to attack U.S. military bases throughout the Middle East earlier today if tensions continue to escalate in the… pic.twitter.com/61ATlLzKFE
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) June 11, 2025
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