Blinken and Austin to visit Gulf to address postwar stresses

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are heading to the Persian Gulf to statesman managing a modulation to post-Afghan warfare relationships with accepted allies successful the Middle East and beyond who were partners successful the failed warfare against the Taliban and the concluding evacuation. Austin planned to commencement by thanking the leaders of Qatar and different Arab Gulf states whose practice during the Kabul airlift helped wide an initially clogged pipeline of hopeless evacuees. Qatar besides is hosting the American diplomatic ngo that withdrew from Kabul astatine war’s end. Blinken besides volition sojourn Germany.