The United States has announced she is banning electronic devices from cabin luggage on certain flights originating from some countries.

Laptops and tablets are banned in flights originating from Saudi Arabia and seven other Islamic countries.

The new rule, which is expected to be officially announced will take effect today.

It will apply to nonstop U.S.-bound flights from 10 international airports in the cities of Cairo in Egypt, Amman in Jordan.

Kuwait City in Kuwait, Casablanca in Morocco, Doha in Qatar, Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

Others are Istanbul in Turkey, and Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Passengers will be barred from putting laptops, tablets, digital cameras and other large electronics in their carry-on luggage.

Only cell phones and approved medical devices would be excluded from the ban.

The ban will apply only to foreign carriers including the Royal Jordanian Airlines. No American carriers will be affected.

The reason for the ban was not immediately clear.

The ban had been under consideration since the U.S. government learned of a threat several weeks ago.

The ban comes after President Donald Trump attempts to overturn court rulings against its travel bans slammed on 6 Muslim nations.

The Justice Department said it will appeal a Maryland federal judge’s ruling that blocked Trump’s travel ban.

The federal judge in Maryland issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on one part of Trump’s revised ban.

The preliminary injunction will remain in place indefinitely until it is either lifted by the Maryland judge or overturned by a higher court.

Earlier a federal judge in Hawaii, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson, made a more sweeping decision on Trump’s travel ban,

The Hawaiin judge said the Trump’s decision was “significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus driving the promulgation.”

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