Rubio to attend G7 meeting in France on Friday

US secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with his G7 counterparts in France on Friday to discuss the war in Iran, the State Department announced.

This will be his first trip abroad since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on 28 February. Mr Rubio will notably address "the situation in the Middle East," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said in a statement Tuesday.

This trip comes after president Donald Trump announced that the United States was in talks with Iran, a claim denied by Tehran, and that he suspended for five days his threat to destroy the country's electrical grid.