Top U.S. officials are in the Middle East pressing for stability in Syria and an end to Israel’s 14-month war in the Gaza Strip in a last-ditch diplomatic push by the outgoing Biden administration. President-elect Donald Trump takes office in a few weeks.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to reporters on the tarmac before his departure from King Hussein International Airport in Jordan ’s southern Red Sea coastal city of Aqaba, Jordan , Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to reporters on the tarmac before his departure from King Hussein International Airport in Jordan ’s southern Red Sea coastal city of Aqaba, Jordan , Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024.
The war erupted with Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack, in which militants killed some 1,200 people in Israel and took 250 others hostage. Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed nearly 45,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza health officials, caused widespread displacement and led to severe hunger across the territory.
“The surround sound of these negotiations is different today than it has been in the past,” Sullivan told reporters after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As Sullivan was in Israel, Blinken was meeting with Jordanian and Turkish leaders to push for a peaceful transition of power in post-Assad Syria.
The goal of creating a free and pluralistic Syria will be a challenge given the bad blood stretching across Syria’s sectarian lines after over half a century of Assad family rule and 14 years of civil war that claimed an estimated 500,000 lives.
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