Faced with the spectacular surge in drone and missile strikes carried out by the Yemeni Ansar Allah rebels, the U.S. State Department has ordered the preventive repatriation of some of its diplomatic personnel. As reported by Reuters via Haaretz, "The U.S. State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and plans to withdraw family members from a number of other U.S. missions in the region." This decision follows a critical deterioration in security on Saudi soil, marked by near-daily attacks on strategic infrastructure. The theater of operations has crossed an additional alert threshold with the attack on the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, in the east of the kingdom, leaving "one dead and eight injured," according to civil aviation authorities...
Western and Israeli media (Spiegel, Haaretz) are focusing on the security threat to U.S. personnel and the evacuations. Conversely, the pan-Arab press and those close to the Axis of Resistance (The Cradle, Al-Quds) are detailing the Houthi military strikes and their economic repercussions, while the radical dissident press (Naked Capitalism) is highlighting the stalemate...
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