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The UK has approximately twenty-thousand citizens... expats, tax refugees, tourists, and civilian workers ...in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar is trying to scheme up a way to evacuate that many people.

The US State Department has issued a travel warning to US citizens for numerous nations in the region.

We've shut down consular services at the embassy in Doha and evacuated government employees and dependents. Like the UK, we also have about 10,000 American citizens in Qatar, but with commercial airline service disrupted, they're kinda on their own, per this professor at Georgetown University's campus in Qatar.