US / US Consulate US to Reopen Most Diplomatic Posts Facilities in Yemen and Pakistan will remain closed By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff Posted Aug 9, 2013 6:31 PM CDT Copied A Jordanian military vehicle drives around the U.S. embassy in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, one of 19 American diplomatic posts ordered closed following terror threats. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon) The State Department plans to reopen all but one of the diplomatic posts it shuttered this week over a possible al-Qaeda attack, reports CNN. Only the embassy in Sanaa Yemen will stay closed over continued concerns of a terror strike. The Obama administration will reopen 18 other facilities throughout North Africa and the Middle East on Sunday. In a separate incident, the US pulled most personnel from its consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, yesterday; that consulate will stay closed for now. (More US Consulate stories.) Report an error