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<\/a> The US State Department <\/strong>issued a travel warning<\/strong><\/a> for Americans traveling to Egypt<\/strong>, urging them to \u201cconsider the risks of travel \u2026 due to threats from terrorist and violent political opposition groups.\u201d The State Department has prohibited diplomatic personnel from visiting the Western Desert and the Sinai Peninsula, with the exception of Sharm El Sheikh, as long as they travel by air. The warning also prohibits its diplomats from visiting religious sites outside greater Cairo, noting that \u201cterrorists continue to threaten Egypt\u2019s religious minorities and have attacked sites and people associated with the Egyptian Coptic Church.\u201d The warning replaces a previous one from December 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US State Department issued a travel warning for Americans traveling to Egypt, urging them to \u201cconsider the risks of travel \u2026 due to threats from terrorist and violent political opposition groups.\u201d The State Department has prohibited diplomatic personnel from visiting the Western Desert and the Sinai Peninsula, with the exception of Sharm El Sheikh, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[72,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-645467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"94377dca-0f62-4c02-b524-5c98328f817a","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"edfe9036-f4ac-4fc6-aba2-01dc4933b987","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[645451],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nState Department issues fresh travel warning for Egypt - 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