The ⁠US ⁠Department of State has called on nationals to immediately leave ⁠more than a dozen countries in the Middle East during ongoing US-Israeli strikes against Iran.

US citizens were urged to depart using commercial means from Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, ⁠Israel, the occupied West ⁠Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, ⁠Saudi Arabia, Syria, United ⁠Arab Emirates ⁠and Yemen, according to Mora Namdar, the department’s ‌assistant secretary for consular affairs.