US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Afghanistan to salvage peace deal with Afghan Taliban
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 23, 2020.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani reacts following loud explosions heard during his swearing-in at the inauguration ceremony as the country's leader, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on March 9, 2020. “We are in a crisis," a State Department official told reporters accompanying Pompeo. “The fear is that unless this crisis gets resolved and resolved soon, that could affect the peace process, which was an opportunity for this country that stood in this 40-years-long war.The official briefed reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss US concerns.
The urgency of Pompeo’s surprise visit was highlighted by the fact that the State Department has warned American citizens against all international travel, citing the spread of the new coronavirus. On Saturday, just hours before he departed on his unannounced trip to Afghanistan, Pompeo was roundly attacked on social media for a photo he posted to his personal Twitter account of him and his wife, Susan, at home working on a jigsaw puzzle with a scene from the Tom Cruise film "Top Gun" on a TV screen.
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