Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – AFP The United States has circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for an “immediate cease-fire linked to the release of hostages” in the Gaza Strip, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. The diplomat made his announcement whilst on a tour of the Middle East that will include a stop [...
Vienna, Austria – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that Washington was working “intensively” with its partners “to bridge the remaining gaps” for a deal to free prisoners held by Hamas and secure a cease-fire in Gaza. “Yes, there has been a counter-proposal put forward by Hamas. I obvious...
Washington, United States – AFP Protecting and aiding civilians must be “job number one” for Israel in the war-battered Gaza Strip, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. “Where there is a will, there is a way,” Blinken told reporters after a virtual meeting with ministers on a new maritime corridor ...
Washington, United States – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Tuesday on Hamas to accept an “immediate cease-fire” with Israel as its representatives met Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Cairo. “We have an opportunity for an immediate cease-fire that can bring hostages home, that can dramatically increase ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iraq has said that any attempt to turn the country into a battleground for warring states to settle scores would not be allowed. This came during a phone call between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein to discuss Washington’s latest attacks on military and civilian sites [&he...
Palestinian Territories – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Egypt on Tuesday as part of his latest Middle East crisis tour, seeking a new cease-fire and “an enduring end” to Israel’s war on Gaza. Heavy strikes and fighting in Gaza killed at least 99 people overnight, mostly women and children, said the he...
Palestinian Territories – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East for another crisis tour on Monday in a bid to secure a new truce, as southern Gaza saw no let-up in attacks by Israel. On his fifth trip to the region since Hamas’s October 7 attack, Blinken is expected to […]
WASHINGTON – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Middle East yet again in the coming days to press a new proposal involving the release of Israelis held in Gaza in return for a pause in attacks by Israel, the State Department said. Blinken will visit Qatar and Egypt — the […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – A group of Palestinian American community members rejected an invite from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to sit down for an off-the-record conversation Thursday due to what they said is the Biden administration’s complicity in the “genocide” in Gaza. The majority of those who were invited to Thur...
TEL AVIV – AFP Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuffed American calls for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, putting the US-Israeli divide on the matter on sharp display. Netanyahu’s insistence that Israel must retain “security control over all the territory west of the Jordan River”...
