The New York Police Department (NYPD) will not provide a security detail to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife during her upcoming vacation to two terror hotspots in the Middle East, despite the mayor's office claiming otherwise."The NYPD does not send officers to countries with level 4 travel advisories for discretionary reasons such as personal travel," a spokesperson for the law enforcement agency told Fox News.Mamdani's wife, Rama Duwaji, is planning to travel to Syria and Lebanon to visit family in September, according to the New York Post.Both of those countries are on the State Department's "Do Not Travel" list due to terrorism concerns.New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, smile as confetti falls after his ceremonial inauguration as mayor at City Hall on Jan.
1, 2026, in New York.(David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)MAMDANI'S WIFE CO-HOSTS LUXE MUSLIM RETREAT CASTING VIRGIN MARY AS ‘PALESTINIAN WOMAN’ UNDER OCCUPATIONThe mayor's office had previously confirmed that Duwaji would have an NYPD security detail on the trip."Upon the strong recommendation of the NYPD, the first lady’s security detail will be joining her when she travels to visit family in Syria and Lebanon," Mamdani’s spokeswoman Dora Pekec reportedly said.But later, as it became clear that the NYPD would not be making the overseas trek, the mayor chalked the confusion up to a staff "miscommunication" when asked about it by news outlet PIX11 on Tuesday.NYPD Detectives’ Endowment Association (DEA) President Scott Munro furiously slammed the implication that NYPD detectives would accompany the city's First Lady to the Middle East.New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch speak at a Sunday morning news conference after a spate of weekend shootings in Brooklyn.
(Kyle Mazza/Anadolu)MAMDANI CLASHES WITH DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS' PUSH TO ABOLISH POLICE AND PRISONS"Our detectives put themselves in harm’s way every day protecting New Yorkers," said Munro."The...