OVERNIGHT: US citizens in Middle East put on HIGH alert #shorts #us #news #foxnews #Trump

Overnight American citizens across the. Middle East received warnings to be. prepared for possible airspace closures. and flight cancellations. These messages. went out from US embassies in capital. cities including Jerusalem. We don't. know the exact trigger for these alerts, but Israeli officials had previously. warned Iran against attacking their. country during the Jewish high holidays. Tonight the holiest day in Judaism, Yom. Kippur, begins amid concerns of regional. escalation. >> Unfortunately, a dangerous pattern has now taken shape.

A pattern in which military force is no. longer used as a last resort, but has. turned into a permanent mechanism for. redesigning the political and security. landscape of the region. >> With a focus on Iran, the ongoing battle. for the Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM. Commander Admiral Brad Cooper announced. this weekend that US forces have. overseen 1 billion barrels of crude oil. exported out of the Persian Gulf over. the last several months. It's not only. the conflict with Iran that risks. expanding. One of the country's largest.

proxies, the Houthis in Yemen, are. ramping up their attacks on Yemeni. government forces and neighboring Saudi. Arabia. On Saturday, Houthi forces. launched a ballistic missile attack on. the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Black smoke. was seen rising from the capital city at. the international airport. Remember, this front is connected to the broader. conflict with Iran. The Houthis are. trying to do what the Iranians did in. the Strait of Hormuz, threaten vessels. in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the. entrance to the Red Sea. And that's. exactly why the United States continues. to project power across the region, more.

than 50,000 US service members deployed. to the Middle East right now.