(JNS) – The White House reiterated on Saturday that any Saudi-U.S. defense agreement would include Israel normalization, against the backdrop of a report last week that the two issues could be decoupled. Speaking at the Financial Times Weekend Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told FT journalist Edward […]
Despite optimistic talk from top diplomats in both the US and Saudi Arabia, regional experts don’t see any movement in the near term, due both to Riyadh’s demands and the Gaza conflict.
The State Department was expected to issue a report on Wednesday.
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than 1 billion dollars in arms and ammunition to Israel.
The White House is lamenting the collapse of cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas and pledging to keep working with both sides to strike a deal.
The Biden administration says Israel’s use of U.S-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law, though, conditions in the Palestinian territory prevented U.S. officials from determining that for certain.
The Biden administration says Israel’s use of U.S-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law, though, conditions in the Palestinian territory prevented U.S. officials from determining that for certain.
Official says final decision has not been made on shipment of thousands of bombs, which was halted amid review of the transfer of weaponsMiddle East crisis – live updates See all our Middle East coverageUS President Joe Biden’s administration paused a shipment of weapons to Israel last week in opposition to apparent moves by the Israelis to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a senior administration official has said.Biden has been trying to head off a full-scale assault by the Israelis...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday that Israel's use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law but that wartime conditions prevented U.S. officials from determining that for certain in specific airstrikes. The finding of “reasonable” evidence to conclude that the U.S. ally had breached international law protecting civilians in the []
The Biden administration says Israel’s use of U.S-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law. But the administration says wartime conditions in the Palestinian territory prevented U.S. officials from determining that for certain in specific airstrikes. The administration’s findings of “reasonable” evidence to conclude that its ally had breached international law in its conduct of the war in Gaza represent the strongest such statement from Biden officials. The...
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Secretary of state Antony Blinken defends decision to pause bomb delivery to Israel: ‘We have real concerns about the way they’re used’On Sunday, more families, estimated in the thousands, were leaving Rafah as the Israeli military pressure intensified. Tank shells landed across the southern Gaza city as the army gave new evacuation orders covering some neighbourhoods in the centre of Rafah, which borders Egypt. Israel yesterday called for Palestinians in more areas of Rafah to head to what it...