{"id":84779,"date":"2026-10-24T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=84779"},"modified":"2026-10-24T09:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:46:39","slug":"u-s-troops-and-diplomats-evacuating-middle-east-posts-russia-removing-diplomats-from-kuwait-qatar-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=84779","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>U.S. troops and diplomats evacuating Middle East posts, Russia Removing Diplomats from Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84780\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-24-at-9.44.50-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-24-at-9.44.50-AM.png 684w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-24-at-9.44.50-AM-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body__content article-body__content--subscriber-gated\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>By Gordon Lubold, Courtney Kube and Abigail Williams<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-f75ff9\" class=\"body-graf\">DOHA, Qatar \u2014 The U.S. military has quietly been scaling back its troop presence at bases across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran-war\">the Middle East <\/a>in recent days, and the State Department is ordering a further reduction in staff at multiple diplomatic posts in the region, according to two U.S. officials and two people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/us-troops-diplomats-evacuating-middle-east-posts-sources-say-rcna604867\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/us-troops-diplomats-evacuating-middle-east-posts-sources-say-rcna604867<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84783,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84779\/revisions\/84783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}