The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has told United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken that he doesn’t personally prioritize and care about the “Palestinian issue,” as reported by US magazine The Atlantic. According to the Atlantic reports, the Crown Prince made these statements during Blinken’s visit to Saudi Arabia in … Read more
The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has joined the clamour for the release of Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Mr Gambaryan has been in detention in Nigeria since February. Ms Thomas-Greenfield made the request during a conversation with Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tugar, … Read more
Offering a pathway to a Palestinian state is the best way to stabilize the wider region and isolate Iran and its proxies, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday as he ended a frenetic regional tour over the Gaza war in Cairo. Shuttling between Israel and Arab states, Blinken has been pushing … Read more
The Biden administration circumvented Congress for a second time this month to send additional weapons to Israel, the State Department announced on Friday. The sale comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised last week to “deepen” the Israeli military’s operations in the territory; Israeli airstrikes hit two refugee camps in central Gaza on Saturday. Secretary … Read more
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urged Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians in its war with Hamas on Sunday, as Israeli tanks fought their way into the main city of the southern Gaza Strip. Two days after the United States vetoed a proposed United Nations demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, … Read more
