March 21 (UPI) -- Passengers traveling from airports in eight Middle Eastern and North African countries will no longer be allowed to carry electronics larger than cellphones onto foreign carriers, U.S. officials announced.
The Trump administration's new flight restriction, which was announced Monday and will be enforced beginning Tuesday afternoon has no end date. It involves all foreign airlines flying to the United States from Amman, Jordan; Cairo; Istanbul; Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Kuwait City; Casablanca, Morocco; Doha, Qatar; and Dubai and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. U.S. airlines are not affected by the new policy.