WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry departed late Friday to Egypt for cooperation talks and to Qatar, where he hopes to ease Gulf countries’ concerns about the Iran nuclear deal.

The trip, which ends August 8, will not include a stop in Israel, one of Washington’s closest allies and a fierce critic of the newly hatched Iran nuclear agreement.

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