A photo has gone viral on social media that appears to show the American flag being flown upside down outside the State Department - but it is not clear if the photograph is real ...
"We are being tasked to assist the Department in recalling USAID employees to the United States by Saturday," State Department official Seth Green wrote in an email to staff on Tuesday.
Newsweek has reached out to USAID via email outside of normal working hours. A USAIDflag flies in front of the agency's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 2014.