U.S. orders some embassy staff, dependents to leave Syria

by yalibnan

April 26, 2011

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• Assad
• Human Rights Watch
• Protests
• Reforms
• sanctions
• Syria
• Syrian Revolution
• UN Security Council
• US embassy

The U.S. State Department said on Monday it has ordered some non-essential U.S. embassy officials in Damascus and all embassy dependents to leave Syria because of the “uncertainty and volatility” in the country. Reuters