Pompeo heading to Middle East to shore up US alliances 0 SHARES Share it! Pompeo leaves on Tuesday for the eight-day trip to Amman, Cairo, Manama, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Riyadh, Muscat, and finally Kuwait City, the State Department announced on Friday. In addition, according to the White House last week, a stop in Baghdad is possible, though the State Department could not confirm it. Pompeo is scheduled to make a keynote address in Cairo, his second stop, where he will underscore the trip’s overall message that “the United States is not leaving the Middle East,” a senior State Department official told journalists Friday. “The Iranian regime is the dangerous actor in the region,” the State Department official said.

Source: Manila Bulletin January 05, 2019 01:23 UTC