Passengers will be required to check laptops and tablets on some flights to the U.S. and U.K.

The United States has announced new restrictions on electronic devices that can be carried by passengers traveling into the country from ten airports in the Middle East and Africa. Laptops and tablets will have to be checked in. The Kingdom has also joined the measure.

The US Department of Homeland Security requires passengers arriving from airports in Jordan, Egypt, Turkeyía, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Morocco and Morocco;rabes Unidos, Kuwait, Morocco and Qatar to bill for the most expensive electrical appliances;The company will also bill for electronic devices larger than a mobile phone, such as tablets, portable DVDs, laptops and cameras. So will the U.K. on planes from Turkey,

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Theairportsaffected by the measures are in Amman, Cairo, Kuwait, Doha, Dubai, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Casablanca (Morocco), Beirut, Tunis, Riyadh and Jeddah. All of the affected countries are Muslim-majority countries.

The airlines that will have to monitor compliance with this provision are British Airways, EasyJet, Jet2.com, Monarch, Thomas Cook, Thomson, Turkish Airlines, Pegasus Airways, Atlas-Global Airlines, Middle East Airlines, Egyptair, Royal Jordanian, Tunis Air and Saudia.

Hitherto, only the need to not turn on electronic devices before boarding a plane for fear of a possible attack had been adopted, but no tablets, video games or computers had ever been banned from entering.

Airlines have until Friday to implement the new restrictions, which will be in effect indefinitely. In principle, it will not affect any U.S. airlines, since they do not fly directly to the U.S. from these airports.