Anti-Denmark demonstration in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 8 February (epa)
11 February 2006 -- Denmark says it has withdrawn its ambassadors and embassy staff from Syria, Iran, and Indonesia, fearing fresh mass protests over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Also today, Denmark advised its citizens still living in all three countries to leave at once.
The Danish embassies in all three countries have been attacked in recent days by protesters.
The cartoons, first published in a Danish newspaper in September and later reprinted in other European newspapers, caused outrage among Muslims across the world who consider them blasphemous.
Peaceful protests by Muslims against the publication of the cartoons were held today in several European cities, including London, Paris, and Berlin.
In London, several thousand British Muslims said they also wanted to condemn the violence that flared around the world following the cartoons' publication.
