U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Middle East this week, President Joe Biden said, as the U.S. continues to try to cement a fragile cease-fire that ended renewed conflict in Gaza.
WASHINGTON â U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Middle East this week, President Joe Biden said, as the U.S. continues to try to cement a fragile cease-fire that ended renewed conflict in Gaza.
Biden announced the trip in a written statement Monday morning, tasking Blinken with building ties with both Israelis and Palestinians. Blinken will visit Jerusalem, Ramallah, Cairo and Amman from Monday through Thursday.
Itâs the latest sign that the U.S. will be called upon to steer peace efforts in the region at a time when Biden had signaled other foreign policy priorities, including reorienting supply chains and doing more to compete with China. Bidenâs response to the conflict was muted for days, part of what his administration called âquiet diplomacy.â
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(Bloomberg) Armeniaâs acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said heâs asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for military assistance to end a deepening border dispute with Azerbaijan, raising fears of a renewed conflict.
(Bloomberg) Armeniaâs acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said heâs asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for military assistance to end a deepening border dispute with Azerbaijan, raising fears of a renewed conflict.
âI appealed to President Putin for assistance to Armenia including military,â after Azerbaijan failed to withdraw an estimated 250 troops from the southern Armenian province of Syunik, Pashinyan told lawnakers in the capital, Yerevan, on Friday. Negotiations with Azerbaijani officials to try to end the standoff would also continue on Saturday, he said.
What Stands Behind the New Palestinian War Against Israel? | Opinion Caroline Glick
, Author and senior columnist, Israel Hayom On 5/12/21 at 12:00 PM EDT
For the past two days, on an hourly basis, the attacks on Israel from Hamas-controlled Gaza and the attacks on Israeli Jews by Israeli Arabs grow worse. What on Sunday was a story limited to Arab violence against Jews and Israeli police in three main focal points in Jerusalem, as well as a few dozen rocket launches against southern Israel from Hamas-controlled Gaza, had by Tuesday night been transformed into a full-on war.
By Wednesday, Hamas had launched more than 1,000 rockets, mortars and missiles at southern and central Israel including 137 launched toward the south in just a five-minute span on Tuesday, and a hundred rockets lobbed toward central Israel in just over an hour on Tuesday night. By midnight between Tuesday and Wednesday, three Israeli women had been killed by rocket attacks that struck thei