Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The U.S. Embassy in Amman will reopen its doors on Monday, after a week-long closure as a precautionary measure amid a security threat.

The American Embassy will resume operations after the US State Department announced that several embassies in the Middle East and North Africa will be closed until August 10th, in an extension of the closure that was announced for Sunday August 4th.


An official source at the Embassy told Ammon News that the decision to reopen on Monday, rather than Sunday, came in line with the Muslim Eid al-Fitr Holiday, in which Jordanian institutions will resume operations on Monday.

An announcement made by the State Department last week extended 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.



Al-Qaeda was linked to a terror threat that prompted the State Department to close embassies in key Middle East nations, including Jordan, Egypt, and Israel.