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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The U.S. Embassy in Amman and other cities in the Middle East and North Africa will continue to be closed until August 10th, after the US State Department announced the closure of a number of embassies and consulates in the region on Sunday August 4, as a precautionary measure amid a terrorist threat.

An announcement was made by the State Department on Monday extending the closure of several embassies for another week, considering that a a number of the embassies in the region will be closed in accordance with local custom and practice for the bulk of the week for the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan.

The statement added that the extended closure is also "out of abundance of caution," but not the emergence of any new threat.


Posts in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Cairo, Riyadh, Dhahran, Jeddah, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait, Manama, Muscat, Sanaa, Tripoli, Antanarivo, Bujumbura, Djibouti, Khartoum, Kigali, and Port Louis are instructed to close for normal operations Monday, August 5 through Saturday, August 10.

Other posts reopened for normal operations on August 5th, including Dhaka, Algiers, Nouakchott, Kabul, Herat, Mazar el Sharif, Baghdad, Basrah, and Erbil.