Kerry heads home after Iraq, Afghanistan visits
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US Secretary of State John Kerry headed home, after making clandestine journeys to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he delivered a stern warning to Iraqi leaders about Syria and sought to patch up differences with Afghanistan's president.
Kerry was flying back to Washington on Tuesday from Paris, having piggy-backed off President Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East to make unannounced stops in Baghdad and Kabul. In Iraq on Sunday, he told Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that shipments of Iranian weapons and fighters through Iraqi territory must stop. During the trip, Kerry also held meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. (AP)
