US State Department orders non-emergency personnel to depart from Beirut embassy

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The US State Department ordered the departure of all non-emergency government personnel from the US Embassy in Beirut, along with their family members. Many media outlets tied this to rising US regional tensions with Iran. A Lebanese media outlet suggested it was in response to threats to the embassy from Hezbollah.The post US State Department orders non-emergency personnel to depart from Beirut embassy appeared first on FDD's Long War Journal.