{"id":19528,"date":"2026-03-03T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-embassy-in-riyadh-struck-by-drones\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:22:15","slug":"us-embassy-in-riyadh-struck-by-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-embassy-in-riyadh-struck-by-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"US embassy in Riyadh struck by drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was struck by multiple drones on Monday following President Trump&rsquo;s attacks on Iran.&nbsp; &ldquo;The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh was subjected to an attack by two drones according to initial estimates, resulting in a limited fire and minor material damage to the building,&rdquo; Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s Ministry of Defense wrote&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5764037-riyadh-embassy-drone-strikes\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was struck by multiple drones on Monday following President Trump&rsquo;s attacks on Iran.&nbsp; &ldquo;The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh was subjected to an attack by two drones according to initial estimates, resulting in a limited fire and minor material damage to the building,&rdquo; Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s Ministry of Defense wrote&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}