{"id":28055,"date":"2019-01-04T18:25:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28055"},"modified":"2019-01-04T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:25:12","slug":"pompeo-to-visit-saudi-arabia-uae-during-middle-east-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28055","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo to visit Saudi Arabia, UAE during Middle East tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1430381\/middle-east\" readability=\"61\">\n<p>\nWASHINGTON:\u00a0Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Saudi Arabia next week as part of a Middle East tour to discuss the war in Yemen, Iran and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe State Department said Pompeo will visit eight countries in the region, starting with Jordan and ending in Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>\nPompeo will underscore US support for its allies and\u00a0counter-terrorism cooperation during his Middle East visit, a US official said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe official also said that the\u00a0US has no plans right now to facilitate Arab forces going into Syria.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nIt will be Pompeo&#8217;s first trip to the region since President Donald Trump\u2019s recent announcement that he intends to withdraw US\u00a0forces from Syria. That decision, which led Jim Mattis to step down as defense secretary, as well as the Trump administration&#8217;s hard line on Iran is expected to dominate Pompeo&#8217;s agenda during the trip.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe visit will be from Jan. 8 to Jan. 15 and will include Jordan,\u00a0 Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON:\u00a0Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Saudi Arabia next week as part of a Middle East tour to discuss the war in Yemen, Iran and Syria. The State Department said Pompeo will visit eight countries in the region, starting with Jordan and ending in Kuwait. Pompeo will underscore US support for its allies and\u00a0counter-terrorism&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}