{"id":32150,"date":"2015-03-15T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=32150"},"modified":"2015-03-15T13:43:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T11:43:29","slug":"us-shuts-down-saudi-embassy-amid-security-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=32150","title":{"rendered":"US shuts down Saudi embassy amid security fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Riyadh, SANA-The US embassy in the Saudi capital\u00a0Riyadh has cancelled all consular services for\u00a0Sunday and Monday due to heightened security\u00a0concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consular services in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran\u00a0would not be available&#8221;AFP quoted the Embassy as\u00a0saying in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It urged US citizens to take extra precautions\u00a0when travelling in Saudi Arabia and to keep a low\u00a0profile.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the embassy warned that Western oil\u00a0workers could be the target of militant attacks.<\/p>\n<p>It said it had information that individuals\u00a0associated with a terrorist organization could be\u00a0targeting people working in the Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorists launched out four terrorist attacks\u00a0against western citizens in Saudi Arabia since\u00a0last October, while terrorists carried out armed\u00a0attack on Suef Center on the Saudi-Iraqi borders\u00a0last January, killing a Saudi commander of border\u00a0guards and two soldiers and injuring an officer.<\/p>\n<p>H. Zain\/ Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Riyadh, SANA-The US embassy in the Saudi capital\u00a0Riyadh has cancelled all consular services for\u00a0Sunday and Monday due to heightened security\u00a0concerns. &#8220;Consular services in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran\u00a0would not be available&#8221;AFP quoted the Embassy as\u00a0saying in a statement. It urged US citizens to take extra precautions\u00a0when travelling in Saudi Arabia and to keep a low\u00a0profile. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,100],"tags":[4697],"class_list":["post-32150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-news","tag-us-embassy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}