US evacuates staff from Lebanon embassy amid tensions with Iran

US state department official says it’s ‘prudent’ to reduce their footprint to essential personnel Washington has evacuated dozens of non-essential personnel from its embassy in Lebanon as US ships and warplanes have been positioned in the region for a potential strike against Iran in the coming days. The diplomatic drawdown followed reports that dozens of US personnel had been evacuated through Lebanon’s Beirut-Rafic Hariri international airport to protect them from a possible Iranian counter...

By Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent

US orders staff to leave Beirut embassy as tensions with Iran grow

Trump has said he is ‘considering’ a military strike on Iran and that the country ‘better negotiate a fair deal’

By Matthew Lee

U.S. pulling non-essential staff from embassy in Beirut amid Iran tensions

The U.S. has built up one of its biggest military deployments in the Middle ⁠East, while Iran has threatened to strike American bases in the region if it is attacked.