{"id":219003,"date":"2026-04-11T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219003"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:48:36","slug":"u-s-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219003","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Embassy in Riyadh hit by drones, Saudi officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh was attacked by two drones, according to initial estimates, resulting in a limited fire and minor material damage to the building, a Saudi Defense Ministry spokesperson said on Monday.The big picture: In the latest incident affecting a U.S. ally since Tehran launched a wave of counterattacks following weekend airstrikes by American and Israeli forces on Iran&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/03\/iran-us-embassy-riyadh-saudi-arabia-drones\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh was attacked by two drones, according to initial estimates, resulting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219003-us-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say.jpeg",320,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219003-us-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219003-us-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say-300x300.jpeg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219003-us-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say.jpeg",320,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219003-us-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say.jpeg",320,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219003-us-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say.jpeg",320,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219003-us-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219003-us-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219003-us-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219003-us-embassy-in-riyadh-hit-by-drones-saudi-officials-say.jpeg",320,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}