Americans must not travel to Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, or Russia due to the high risk of “wrongful detention” in these nations, the State Department said in a Sept. 10 X post.
All six nations currently have the “Level 4: Do Not Travel” designation—the most severe of the four travel advisory levels under the State Department.
For Afghanistan, the risk includes not only wrongful detection, but kidnapping, according to the department’s Jan. 13 advisory.
“Multiple terrorist groups are active in Afghanistan and U.S. citizens are targets of kidnapping and hostage-taking,” the department said at the time.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul had suspended operations in 2021, and Washington is currently unable to provide routine or emergency consular services to Americans in the country, it said….