File photo: The north side of the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP/Karen Bleier)

(VOVworld)- The White House held a high-level meeting on Saturday on terror concerns that prompted Washington to issue a worldwide travel alert and order its embassies across the Islamic world closed temporarily. Interpol issued a global security alert after hundreds of militants were set free in jailbreaks linked to the Al-Qaeda terror network, and as suicide bombers killed nine near the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. Those attending the meeting, chaired by National Security Advisor Susan Rice, included Secretary of State John Kerry, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Also present were the heads of the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency, as well as the US ambassador to the United Nations. On Friday, the US State Department ordered the closure of its embassies and diplomatic agencies in Abu Dhabi of United Arab Emirates, Baghdad of Iraq and Cairo of Egypt. US embassies and diplomatic agencies in other countries including Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Bangladesh will possibly close.