US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to visit the Middle East and Africa later this month, the State Department announced on Friday.

On May 21, Kerry will visit Muscat, the capital of Oman, and meet with senior Omani officials on a range of bilateral and regional issues, the department said in a statement.

On May 22, the top US diplomat will visit Amman, the capital of Jordan, to meet with key international partners on how to bring together both sides of the Syrian conflict and broker a " negotiated political solution" to the prolonged crisis in Syria.

From May 23 to 24, he will travel to Jerusalem and Ramallah for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders respectively, according to the schedule. The meetings are apparently aimed at reviving the long-stalled peace negotiations between the two sides.

From May 24 to 25, Kerry will be in Ethiopia's Addis Ababa to participate in the Golden Jubilee of the Organization of African Unity at the African Union Summit, said the statement.

He will then return to Amman to participate in the World Economic Forum on May 26, before returning to Washington on May 27.