Wall Street Journal: “Over 100 U.S. ambassador posts around the world are sitting empty in the Trump administration, a vacancy rate without modern precedent and one that some current and former officials warn is hamstringing U.S. diplomatic power abroad.”
“In the Middle East—where the U.S. is simultaneously grappling with ending the Iran war, cementing peace in Gaza and trying to broker a cease-fire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon—the U.S. doesn’t have ambassadors in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iraq or Kuwait. In Africa, 37 of the U.S.’s 51 embassies on the continent have no ambassador.”
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