Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel and the Palestinians to de-escalate tensions after an increase of violence in the region. Elise Labott, a professor at the American University School ...

JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a two-day visit ... show for his renewed appeals for Israeli-Palestinian calm amid an alarming spike of violence.

In a news conference after his meeting with Netanyahu, Blinken repeated calls for calm, and reaffirmed that the US believes that the dormant peace process aimed at a two-state solution is the “o ...

Blinken met with Abbas late last month in the West Bank at the end of an intense series of diplomatic meetings planned before the latest flare-up of violence. In their phone call, the two ...

America’s top diplomat arrived in Israel today with an appeal for calm after several days of ... to punish families of attackers. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, said in Jerusalem ...

“Productive call with Netanyahu to discuss regional developments,” Blinken tweeted after the phone ... and Palestinians to take steps to restore calm and our opposition to escalatory ...

“We’re urging all sides now to take urgent steps to restore calm, to de-escalate,” Blinken said after meeting ... is or what they believe," he said. "Calls for vengeance against more ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a two-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank Tuesday with little to show for his renewed appeals for Israeli-Palestinian calm amid an ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke Saturday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and separately with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, reaffirming US support for a "two-state solution ...