US Warns Citizens over Traveling to KSA
Local Editor
The US State Department issued a statement in which it urged US citizens to "carefully consider the risks of traveling to Saudi Arabia."
Relatively, the US issued travel warning for those American citizens who plan to go to Saudi Arabia ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the Kingdom.
The State Department's warning came in a statement on Monday just less than two weeks before Obama's scheduled visit to Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, Obama is scheduled to travel to Riyadh to attend a Gulf Cooperation Council summit that will be held on April 21.
The warning attributed the reason of such warning for "reports of threats against US citizens and other Westerners, as well as locations frequented by them."
"Possible targets include housing compounds, hotels, restaurants, shopping areas, international schools and other facilities where Westerners congregate," it noted.
In a related context, the statement also warned against traveling to areas near Saudi-Yemeni borders over possible terrorist attacks and insecurity as Saudi Arabia has been attacking Yemen since late March 2015.
The warning also banned "US government personnel and their families" from going within 50 miles of the Yemen border and urges Americans to stick to hotels and housing compounds.
The new statement, which came after an earlier one was issued in September last year, warned that both al-Qaeda and the Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group] are planning attacks in the Kingdom.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
