RiyadhThe US ordered non-emergency staff and families out of Saudi Arabia.
Houthi strikes on airports and oil sites now kill civilians, after a four-year truce collapsed.
State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said the order covers Saudi Arabia only and called reports of a Gulf-wide order inaccurate.
Four US officials told Reuters that missions in other Gulf states would also send families home.
The State Department has confirmed neither account, and the Riyadh embassy warns of further Houthi attacks.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 100+ reports worldwide
- Al Jazeera Online
- reports the departure order as limited to nonemergency staff and families in Saudi Arabia, with the Houthis framed as the cause
- Deutsche Welle leans critical
- centres the Dammam airport strike and Saudi Arabia's revived war with the Houthis as the context for the diplomatic drawdown
- The National
- foregrounds the State Department's denial that the order extends to UAE, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain, against wire reports
Sources: Al Jazeera Online, Deutsche Welle, The National