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WASHINGTON – The United States Sunday extended the closures of a number of embassies and consulates across the Muslim world and nearby nations through August 10 following credible threats from the Al-Qaeda terror network.
It added four outposts in sub-Saharan Africa to its original list of closures, but reopened several in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Iraq and Mauritania.
Britain, Germany and France said they would close their embassies in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, on Sunday and Monday after Washington issued a worldwide travel alert warning of a possible attack.
The US diplomatic offices closed through Saturday are:
US Embassy Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
US Embassy Amman, Jordan
US Embassy Antananarivo, Madagascar
US Embassy Bujumbura, Burundi
US Embassy Cairo, Egypt
US Consulate Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
US Embassy Djibouti, Djibouti
US Embassy Doha, Qatar
US Consulate Dubai, United Arab Emirates
US Consulate Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
US Embassy Khartoum, Sudan
US Embassy Kigali, Rwanda
US Embassy Kuwait City, Kuwait
US Embassy Manama, Bahrain
US Embassy Muscat, Oman
US Embassy Port Louis, Mauritius
US Embassy Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
US Embassy Sanaa, Yemen
US Embassy Tripoli, Libya
The US diplomatic offices re-opening after Sunday closures include:
US Embassy Algiers, Algeria
US Consulate Arbil, Iraq
US Embassy Baghdad, Iraq
US Consulate Basra, Iraq
US Embassy Dhaka, Bangladesh
US Consulate Herat, Afghanistan
US Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan
US Embassy Nouakchott, Mauritania
No further information at this time was available for these US diplomatic offices, closed Sunday:
US Consulate East Jerusalem
US Consulate Haifa, Israel
US Embassy Tel Aviv, Israel
SOURCE: US State Department, US embassy websites.