NEW: Trump expands travel ban to include Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria

The Trump administration has expanded its travel ban to include the countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria. This comes after the president announced other travel bans earlier this year as well as restrictions.

“The restrictions and limitations imposed by the Proclamation are necessary to prevent the entry of foreign nationals about whom the United States lacks sufficient information to assess the risks they pose, garner cooperation from foreign governments, enforce our immigration laws, and advance other important foreign policy, national security, and counterterrorism objectives,” a White House proclamation said of the ban.

The other countries that were announced earlier this year included Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. 

In addition to the new ban, the move from Trump “also adds full restrictions and entry limitations on individuals holding Palestinian-Authority-issued travel documents.” The new order also "continues partial restrictions of nationals from 4 of the 7 original high-risk countries: Burundi, Cuba, Togo, and Venezuela," the proclamation added. 

The White House said that Turkmenistan, although restrictions on the country were included in the original order, has "engaged productively with the United States and demonstrated significant progress since the previous Proclamation" and the new "proclamation lifts the ban on its nonimmigrant visas, while maintaining the suspension of entry for Turkmen nationals as immigrants."

President Trump has also imposed travel restriction on an additional 15 countries, which includes Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.