In 1992, the State Department divided its Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs in two. At this point, the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs retained jurisdiction over the same countries that the Division of Near Eastern Affairs had in 1948, minus the Sudan (which had been transferred back to the jurisdiction of an African division in 1959) but with the addition of the nations of North Africa (which had been redefined as part of the Near East in 1974).

Sources: U.S. Government Manual, 1959-1960, 89-90; U.S. Government Manual, 1974-1975, 343; “Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs,” U.S. Department of State, http://www.state.gov/p/nea/