The United States has closed its Tripoli embassy and evacuated everyone

The United States closed its embassy in the early hours of this morning and evacuated its 150 personnel, including 80 US marines, who were driven across the border into Tunisia.

The Guardian reports this afternoon:

The United States shut down its embassy in Libya on Saturday and evacuated its diplomats to neighbouring Tunisia under US military escort amid a significant deterioration in security in Tripoli as fighting intensified between rival militias, the State Department said.

American personnel at the Tripoli embassy, which had already been operating with limited staffing, left the capital around dawn and travelled by road to neighbouring Tunisia, according to Harf. As the evacuation was under way, residents of the city reported in real time on social media that US military aircraft flew overhead while US soldiers escorted a convoy of vehicles out of town. The State Department would not confirm the evacuation until all staffers were safely in Tunisia.