One of Israel’s longest hospital raids of the Gaza war stretched into a fourth day on Thursday, as the military said that it had killed dozens of people it described as terrorists in the previous 24 hours in its operation at Al-Shifa Hospital. Israel has staged a series of raids …
Read More »Middle East Crisis: Blinken Will Travel to Mideast Again as Cease-Fire Talks Restart
Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza and a presumed mastermind of the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel, was confirmed dead on Monday by a senior U.S. official after an Israeli airstrike more than a week ago. Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, told …
Read More »North Korea fires ballistic missiles as Blinken visits Seoul
Launches come days after South Korea and the US wrapped up military drills Pyongyang sees as an invasion rehearsal. North Korea fired short-range ballistic missiles towards its eastern waters as United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to open a democracy summit in neighbouring South Korea, officials have said. …
Read More »Middle East Crisis: Blinken Arrives in Mideast to Rally Support for Cease-Fire Plan
American warplanes destroyed or severely damaged most of the Iranian and militia targets they struck in Syria and Iraq on Friday, according to the Pentagon, the first major salvos in what President Biden and his aides have said will be a sustained campaign. Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon …
Read More »U.S. Plans Further Retaliation in Mideast as Blinken Heads to the Region
Senate Republicans and Democrats on Sunday cemented a compromise plan to crack down on unlawful migration across the U.S. border with Mexico and cleared a critical hurdle to an aid package for Ukraine, but the deal faces long odds in a Congress deeply divided over both issues. The release of …
Read More »Blinken Lays Out Possible Endgame in Gaza Under Palestinian Authority
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Wednesday that Gaza should be unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority once the war is over, offering a strong signal about what the United States sees as its preferred endgame in the fight between Israel and Hamas. The message, delivered …
Read More »10 Stops in 5 Days, Plus an Air Raid Shelter, for Blinken
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hurried into a bunker as air raid sirens wailed in Tel Aviv on Monday, in the most dramatic moment of a whirlwind — and unusually chaotic — Middle East tour for America’s top diplomat. After his second visit to Israel in five days, Mr. …
Read More »Fentanyl, Illegal Migration and Guns Top Agenda as Blinken Visits Mexico
President Biden’s top cabinet officials will seek to forge a united front with Mexico during a series of meetings in Mexico City on Thursday that will focus on drug and gun trafficking, as well as illegal migration. The U.S. officials — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary …
Read More »US’s Blinken visits Tonga, warns of ‘predatory’ Chinese aid
Antony Blinken, who is in Tonga to dedicate a new embassy, is the first US Secretary of State to visit the Pacific nation. Antony Blinken, the United States secretary of state, has pledged to step up support for Pacific nations and reiterated a warning about the perils of “predatory” Chinese …
Read More »In China, Blinken Holds ‘Candid’ Talks to Restart High-Level Diplomacy
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met on Monday with Wang Yi, the top foreign policy official in China, in the second day of high-level diplomatic talks in Beijing between the two governments to try to rebuild channels of communication that crumbled during a dispute over a Chinese spy balloon …
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