Travel Warnings are issued when long-term, protractedconditions that make a country dangerous of unstablelead the State Department to recommand thatAmericans avoid or consider the risk of travel to thatcountry. Due to widespread political instability and violence anumber of American citizens have been kidnapped,raped, or murdered while traveling and or living inEurasia. For that reason the State Department hasissued a travel advisory for the following countries: