🔻 The U.S. government advised its citizens not to travel to six Middle Eastern countries

🔻 The U.S. government advised its citizens not to travel to six Middle Eastern countries

The U.S. State Department, citing security concerns and limitations in providing consular services, warned American citizens about traveling to six Middle Eastern countries—including Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Yemen.

The department wrote in a post on the social media platform X that all six countries still remain at the highest travel advisory level, level four.

Based on the U.S. State Department’s categorization, it is recommended that countries placed in level four be visited under no circumstances and for no reason.

The post said: “We set Level Four based on local conditions and/or our limited ability to assist Americans in those locations,” and “These places are dangerous. Do not go there, under any circumstances and for any reason.”

The U.S. State Department has also included Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, Sudan, and South Sudan in the list of 23 countries currently subject to the highest travel advisory level.