Pompeo Leaves Kabul; No Word on Political Power-Sharing Deal

Pompeo Leaves Kabul; No Word on Political Power-Sharing Deal
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on "Evaluating the Trump Administration's Policies on Iran, Iraq and the Use of Force" in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 28, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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KABUL, Afghanistan—U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Afghanistan on March 23 without saying whether he was able to broker an agreement between the country’s squabbling political leaders.

Pompeo was in Kabul on an urgent visit to try to move forward a U.S. peace deal signed in February with the Taliban. He'd traveled thousands of miles amid a near-global travel shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when world leaders and statesmen are curtailing official travel.