Supporting the people of Afghanistan, including helping and addressing the humanitarian and economic crisis in the country, is an immediate priority for Washington. US State Department’s deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said.

While calling the deepening of relations between Iran and Syria worrisome, the deputy spokesperson of the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked the countries of the world not to normalize their relations with Damascus.

Vedant Patel, the deputy spokesperson of the US Department of State, demanded the immediate release of the offending oil tanker from the Islamic Republic of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy in the Strait of Hormuz.