Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, traveled over the weekend to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he met with military leaders and U.S. diplomats about terrorism and instability in the Middle East, his office announced Monday.

Cornyn met with U.S. Ambassador Michael McKinley and military leaders in Kabul, Afghanistan, “on the status of security efforts.” He also met with Gen. John Nicholson, the senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan and commander of the NATO mission overseeing Afghan security forces.