A recently intercepted message among senior al Qaeda operatives alarmed the U.S. State Department and led to the closing of 22 embassies and consulates Sunday, August 4, across the Middle East and North Africa. On Sunday afternoon, the State Department said it had extended the closures in 15 of the locations until Saturday, August 10, and added four other posts to the list. Click through to see which facilities are affected, beginning with the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, which is closed for the week.
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The U.S. embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, was closed August 4 but was scheduled to reopen on Monday, August 5.
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The U.S. Embassy in the Saudi capital of Riyadh will be closed for the week along with the consulates in Dhahran and Jeddah.
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The U.S. Embassy in Muscat, Oman, will remain closed through August 10.
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The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, is closed for the week.
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The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, was closed on Sunday and reopened Monday. The consulate in the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif was also closed and reopened.
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The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, shown here under construction in October 2007, reopened August 5. The consulates in Basrah and Erbil, which were closed, also resumed normal business on Monday.
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The U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, shown here during a demonstration on September 11, 2012, will remain closed.
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The U.S. Embassy in Antananarivo, Madagascar, was one of four embassies added to the list of facilities to remain closed for the week. The others were the embassies in Burundi, Rwanda and Mauritius.
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The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, is closed until August 10.
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The U.S. Embassy in Doha, Qatar, is closed for the week.
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The U.S. Embassy in Algiers, Algeria, closed on August 4 and reopened the next day.
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Officials announced that they would add the U.S. Embassy in Port Louis on the island of Mauritius to the list of facilities that will be closed for the week.
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The U.S Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, will remain closed for the week.
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The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, will remain closed for the week.
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The U.S. Embassy in Manama, Bahrain, will remain closed for the week.
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The U.S. Embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania, reopened August 5.
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The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City, Kuwait, will remain closed for the week.
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The U.S. Embassy in Djibouti will remain closed.
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The U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, will remain closed along with the consulate in Dubai.
