State Department Issues Egyptian Travel Warning
The U.S. State Department on July 3 issued a Travel Warning for U.S. citizens planning to travel to Egypt. The announcement supersedes another warning for Egyptian travel issued on June 28. The July 3 warning advised U.S. citizens to depart the country. The State Department ordered the departure of all non-emergency U.S. government personnel and their families.
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The Egyptian military deposed former President Mohammed Morsi on July 3, as protests calling for his ouster raged nationwide. Morsi was elected to office in July 2012, in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution that removed former President Hosni Mubarak from office and the transitional period that followed. Egypt has been racked by social and political unrest since the revolution. A U.S. citizen was killed on June 28 while attending a demonstration in Alexandria, Egypt.